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

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare trust in London is looking for a Nurse/Dietitian lead to coordinate and develop specialist diabetes services. The ideal candidate will manage services, provide expert clinical care, and deliver education to healthcare professionals. This role is key to improving diabetes care and reducing health inequalities. The position offers flexible hours and generous benefits for career advancement.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Generous benefits

Next level training

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Dietitian with extensive experience in diabetes services.
• Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and provide specialist education.
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and improving patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead Diabetes nursing and dietitian services across the trust.
• Enhance joint working between hospital and community for patient care.
• Provide expert nursing care and treatment for diabetes patients.
• Lead nurse/dietitian clinics and ensure high quality care standards.

Skills

Expert clinical care

Leadership

Education and training

Expertise in diabetes care

Education

Relevant nursing or dietitian 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 also 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.

Responsibilities

• To line manage and lead Diabetes nursing and dietitian services across the trust and to support integrated care teams with specialist advice
• To enhance joint working between hospital and community to enable patients to access their care seamlessly close to home from diagnosis to lifelong management
• To provide expert autonomous nursing care, advice and support to diabetes patients providing advanced assessment, complex clinical decision making, diagnosis and treatment including non-medical prescribing for patients referred
• To manage patients appropriately through the specialist patient pathways supporting inpatient services, outpatient and telephone clinics and MDT review
• To undertake nurse/dietitian led clinics and to be responsible for excellent standards of care to patients through the planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating clinics and services including complex Type 1 and 2 Diabetic patients, ante-natal, renal, foot, transition and initiation of pump therapy clinics
• To take responsibility for own evidence based practice
• To develop and work inside clear advance practice policies and evidence based guidelines to support the service
• To lead the multi-disciplinary team, providing specialist education and advice to patients ensuring provision of NICE recommended structured education to support safe diabetes care and self-management programmes.
• To assist in the development of standards of care for diabetes care across the trust with a specific focus on education and teaching for healthcare professionals and to act as an expert nursing resource
• To provide formal training to other health care professionals on diabetes care across the trust and in primary care
• To manage patients appropriately across the patient pathway ensuring an efficient and cost effective model to improve patient experience and lifelong management
• To work alongside the diabetes and endocrine leadership team in ensuring world class care standards, governance, education, training and support for service delivery across the whole diabetes pathway to meet local needs.
• To act as a visible role model and expert practitioner, to provide line management and professional leadership to clinical nurse specialists within speciality
• To support the advancement of nursing and dietitian practice.
• To participate in and chair the trust-wide advanced practice specialist groups.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests. Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

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This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025