Advanced Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; Brighton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading community healthcare provider is seeking an Advanced Diabetes Specialist Nurse to deliver expert diabetes care across community settings. This role involves patient assessments, collaboration with hospital teams, and providing education to healthcare professionals. Ideal candidates will have strong diabetes knowledge and excellent communication skills, contributing to improved patient outcomes.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Excellent training and development opportunities

Cost-effective workplace nurseries

Qualifications

• Autonomous practitioner with advanced diabetes knowledge.
• Experience in clinical guidance and patient management.

Responsibilities

• Undertake regular patient assessments and reviews.
• Coordinate care pathways and support complex medication management.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives and supervise nursing staff.

Skills

Advanced diabetes knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Job description

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We are seeking a passionate and experienced Advanced Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver expert diabetes care across community settings, working closely with Adult Community Nursing Teams.

You will be responsible for undertaking regular patient assessments and reviews, facilitating multidisciplinary huddles, and providing clinical guidance to enhance the management of people living with diabetes. A key part of your role will involve close collaboration with hospital teams to ensure smooth transitions of care following discharge, promoting continuity and safe self-management for patients.

The successful candidate will coordinate care pathways, support complex medication management, and provide education to healthcare professionals, patients, and carers. We are looking for an autonomous practitioner with advanced diabetes knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to improving patient outcomes across the community.

If you are passionate about diabetes care and looking for a role that offers both challenge and reward, we would love to hear from you.

In this role, you will provide expert clinical leadership and act as a specialist resource to clinicians within Adult Community Nursing Teams, supporting the planning, development, and delivery of high-quality community diabetes services. You will work collaboratively with service users and partner agencies to improve and innovate diabetes care pathways.

Key responsibilities include contributing to service reviews, data collection for performance monitoring, and supporting service development in line with local and national commissioning priorities. The role involves undertaking clinical risk assessments, ensuring safe environments for patients and staff, and linking closely with secondary care teams to promote a whole-system approach to diabetes management.

You will lead on quality improvement initiatives, support clinical audits, and act on findings to enhance service delivery. You will supervise and appraise Band 6 and 7 nursing staff, ensure robust clinical governance processes are in place, and oversee effective management of referrals, including triage and urgent appointments.

Additionally, you will identify training needs and deliver ongoing education to healthcare professionals, maintain up-to-date knowledge of diabetes care developments, and contribute to strategic planning to continually improve patient outcomes and service effectiveness.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
  
  

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Julia Fairhall Job title: Community Divisional Director of Nursing Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07901 516 804

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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