Band 8B Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse/Dietitian | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust in the UK seeks a Nurse/Dietitian lead to coordinate and develop diabetes services. You will provide clinical care and support while leading and mentoring staff. The role requires strong leadership skills and a commitment to patient-centered care. Ideal candidates will have a Nursing or Dietetics degree and significant experience in diabetes management. Flexible working hours are supported, alongside career development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Dietitian with experience in managing diabetes care.
• Passionate about improving outcomes for patients with diabetes.
• Ability to lead and mentor clinical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead diabetes nursing and dietitian services.
• Enhance integration of hospital and community care.
• Provide expert advice and support to diabetes patients.
• Educate and train healthcare professionals on diabetes care.

Skills

Expert clinical care

Leadership

Mentorship

Clinical decision making

Patient education

Education

Nursing or Dietetics degree

Job description

Overview

As the Nurse/Dietitian lead, you will be responsible for the coordination and development of specialist diabetes services across all RFL sites, providing expert clinical care, education, and support to patients, families, and healthcare professionals. You will play a key role in service innovation and quality improvement, working closely with consultants, GPs, primary care teams, and community partners to ensure seamless, evidence-based care across the patient pathway.

You will provide mentorship and leadership to junior staff, contribute to the development of clinical guidelines, and lead on audits, research, and training initiatives. The successful candidate will be passionate about improving outcomes for people with diabetes and committed to reducing health inequalities within our local communities.

Join us at The Royal Free London, where you\'ll be part of a world-renowned Trust committed to clinical excellence, innovation, and the wellbeing of both patients and staff.

Responsibilities

• Line manage and lead Diabetes nursing and dietitian services across the trust and support integrated care teams with specialist advice.
• Enhance joint working between hospital and community to enable patients to access their care seamlessly close to home from diagnosis to lifelong management.
• Provide expert autonomous nursing care, advice and support to diabetes patients, including advanced assessment, complex clinical decision making, diagnosis and treatment including non-medical prescribing for patients referred.
• Manage patients across specialist pathways supporting inpatient services, outpatient and telephone clinics, and MDT review.
• Undertake nurse/dietitian led clinics and be responsible for standards of care through planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating clinics and services (complex Type 1 and 2 diabetes, ante-natal, renal, foot, transition, and initiation of pump therapy clinics).
• Take responsibility for evidence-based practice and develop advance practice policies and guidelines to support the service.
• Lead the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist education and advice to patients and ensuring provision of NICE-recommended structured education for safe diabetes care and self-management programmes.
• Assist in the development of standards of care for diabetes across the trust with a focus on education and teaching for healthcare professionals, acting as an expert nursing resource.
• Provide formal training to other health care professionals on diabetes care across the trust and in primary care.
• Manage patients appropriately across the patient pathway to ensure an efficient and cost-effective model to improve patient experience and lifelong management.
• Work with the diabetes and endocrine leadership team to ensure world-class care standards, governance, education, training and support for service delivery across the whole diabetes pathway to meet local needs.
• Act as a visible role model and expert practitioner, providing line management and professional leadership to clinical nurse specialists within the specialty.
• Support the advancement of nursing and dietitian practice and participate in and chair the trust-wide advanced practice specialist groups.

About the Trust

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests. Our size, scale and influence offer career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that supports lifestyle, with flexible hours and benefits.

Application information

For more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, please refer to the attached Job Description and the trust careers site. This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025.