Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurse | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

st georges nhs trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospital trust in the UK seeks a professional to provide education, support, and diabetes care for inpatients. The role involves managing a caseload in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high standards of patient care and effective communication during hospital-to-home transitions. Ideal candidates will have experience in diabetes care and excellent interpersonal skills. This position is crucial in promoting integrated care for patients with diabetes.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively with patients and healthcare professionals.
• Experience in supporting patients with diabetes.
• Skills to assess and identify individual patient needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide education, advice, and support to inpatients with diabetes.
• Manage a defined caseload under supervision.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive care.

Job description

Overview

Provide education, advice and support to inpatients with diabetes and their carers, under the supervision of the Diabetes Specialist Nurses.

The role includes supporting patients in a variety of clinics such as pregnancy and diabetes clinics and new patient clinics.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team to promote integrated care for inpatients within the diabetes care.
• To provide a high standard of diabetes care. To act in a consultative role to patients, relatives, and health professionals on the management of diabetes mellitus.
• The post holder will utilise skills to assess and identify inpatient needs and implement delivery of appropriate individualised care for people with diabetes.
• The post holder will take daily responsibility for managing a defined caseload, with the support of existing nursing and medical staff. Specialist holistic advice and education will be provided for in patients and their carers, referring on as appropriate for follow up care on discharge.
• As a member of the diabetes nursing team, maintains relevant statistics to monitor inpatient activity and workload.
• Communicates effectively with hospital and community services relating to: a) The hospital to home transition period; b) Follow up and stabilisation of diabetes in the community.
• Works with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to provide a comprehensive care package to patients with diabetes.
• Assessment of inpatients with diabetes to help identify physical and emotional problems relating to the condition.
• Educate and support inpatients, relatives, and carers to facilitate optimum diabetes control.
• Able to refer to the appropriate member of the multidisciplinary team to assist with problem solving.
• Facilitates continuity of care and communication.
• Utilises reflective practice to improve care.
• Able to access up to date information on diabetes.
• Compliments

About St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

This advert closes on Sunday 7 Sep 2025