Working For Us

An opportunity has arisen for bright, keen, motivated Nurses with experience of working with people with Diabetes to join our team in delivering essential and specialist Diabetes nursing care, specifically supporting the City and South Cluster

The Diabetes Team provide in-patient and out-patient services for people with Diabetes across University Hospital of Wales and University Hospital Llandough. Our services include Insulin Pump therapy, Gestational Diabetes management, the young adults service, structured patient education and staff education as well as providing an in-patient service for patients with Diabetes. We are currently developing a Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse Team which will be key to

• developing an enabling environment in order to provide patients and their families with the skills required to manage their diabetes.
• supporting the delivery of the UHB Community Based Diabetes Model
• identifying, reviewing and optimising the treatment of patients with diabetes, developing management plans, initiating and titrating prescribed treatments and evaluating outcomes.
• supporting other secondary care practitioners towards providing excellent care
• delivering specialist educational programmes to a range of healthcare professionals in relation to Diabetes including medical, nursing and Allied Health Professional staff and to patients

The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills and will work well within a team. The ability to cope in stressful and demanding situations is highly desirable, although support will be given.

 We are searching for nurses who share our values that:

• We care about the people we serve and the people we work with
• We trust one another
• We respect each other
• We take personal responsibility
• We treat people with kindness
• We act with integrity

In return we will offer you a dynamic, friendly working environment, a full induction programme and a competency based development plan to guide your development within the role.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Closing Date: 4th March 2021

Applications from job seekers who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the resident labour market test. UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the UKVI website.