Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist

About the role

This position will also work out of the Sunnyvale Clinic routinely and occasionally from the South Bay Clinic.

Responsibilities

• Provide diabetes self-management education (DSME) for newly diagnosed patients with diabetes and their families.
• Facilitate outpatient diabetes classes pertinent to the Stanford Children's diabetes education program.
• Make recommendations involving diabetes management supplies and diabetes devices, including insulin delivery devices, insulin pumps, blood glucose meters, and continuous glucose meters.
• Provide ongoing education for both the family and patient with diabetes.
• Aid in training patients starting on insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors.
• Communicate with patients and families regarding patient care in clinic settings, via Mychart, via email, and via phone call follow up.
• Collaborate with medical and hospital nursing staff with discharge planning of patients with diabetes and other patient/family interventions as needed.
• Provide requested in-service training and presentations on pediatric diabetes care for hospital staff, and outside organizations.
• Aid in prior authorizations for diabetes medications and diabetes devices when medically necessary, but not covered benefit of patient's insurance.
• Facilitate diabetes medication prescription renewals, routed to providers in electronic medical records for review and signature.
• Maintain monitoring patients' diabetes behavioral goals and outcomes, communicating and documenting patient progress for the healthcare team.
• Aid in-patient hospital staff with diabetes management skills and education.
• Interact with the multidisciplinary diabetes team in outpatient clinics that provides comprehensive diabetes care and education.
• Facilitate diabetes management outreach and support to the diabetes population, including facilitating out of Stanford system referrals to diabetes management teams (physician and staff) local to patient.

  Qualifications

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university.
  • Experience: One (1) years of progressively responsible and directly related experience.
  • Licenses/Certifications: Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist by Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education.