Diabetes Specialist Lead Nurse

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Halifax, Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Halifax seeks a Diabetes Specialist Lead Nurse to lead the nursing diabetes team and improve patient care. The successful candidate will possess advanced diabetes knowledge and experience managing a team, with skills in service development and clinical leadership. This role offers a salary range of £47,810 to £54,710 per annum and requires a Registered Nurse with NMC Registration.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills in managing diabetes care teams.
• Experience with insulin pumps and gestational diabetes management.
• Ability to conduct audits and implement findings effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead the diabetes nursing team at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust.
• Deliver level 4 and 5 diabetes services in both inpatient and outpatient care.
• Conduct staff appraisals and manage team performance.

Skills

Diabetes management

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Team management

Education

Registered Nurse with current NMC Registration

Post-grad qualification in relevant field

Teaching qualification

Job description

Go back Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Diabetes Specialist Lead Nurse

The closing date is 24 September 2025

The post holder will lead the nursing diabetes team, and will possess enthusiasm and willingness to further develop their knowledge and skill set, with a shared vision and desire to be involved in service development projects and improve patient care.

You will have specific experience of clinical leadership, possess enthusiasm and determination to improve the quality of patient centred care, service delivery and service team projects.

You will have experience of managing and developing a team, completing staff appraisals, sickness monitoring and roster management.

The successful candidate must possess advanced diabetes knowledge and experience looking after people with Type 1 and type 2 diabetes, either in an acute or primary care setting.

The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner able to deliver level 4 and level 5 diabetes service, including both inpatient and outpatient care.

You will be self-motivated, organised and capable of adapting to the changing needs of the service. You will demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, be computer literate and preferably familiar using SystmOne and EPR.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as an integral part of the established specialist Diabetes Nursing Team as the diabetes lead for Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS trust.

Please see job description attached for full job description and specifications.

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work as an integral part of the established specialist Diabetes Nursing Team as the diabetes lead for Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS trust.

Please see job description attached for full job description and specifications.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Registered Nurse with current NMC Registration and revalidation evidence
• Teaching qualification
• Post grad qualification in relevant field
• Nurse Prescriber or willingness to work towards
• Evidence in leadership and management
• Demonstrate evidence of training around treatment regimes for patients with diabetes
• Autonomous practitioner able to deliver level 4 and level 5 diabetes services acutely and in the community
• Advanced communication skills

Knowledge, Experience and Expertise

• Recent extensive experience of working in a diabetes nursing service
• Ability to demonstrate experience of audit and research, including implementation of findings and outcome reviews
• Understand the challenges faced by community services
• Significant knowledge and skills in diabetes symptom management
• Relevant acute and community experience in diabetes
• Demonstrable experience of insulin pump skills
• Demonstrable managing gestational diabetes
• Evidence of maintaining high level skills in assessment and management of patients with diabetes
• Demonstrate extensive experience in leadership and staff management, including aspects of managing sickness, absence and attendance, appraisals, action plan reviews and duty rosters
• Budget Management experience and cost improvement initiatives

Communication and Relationships

• Ability to influence outcomes and engage in service change negotiations
• Act as a role model with a significant level of autonomy and accountability
• High level of personal and professional autonomy and accountability
• Ability to manage complex situations effectively and demonstrate ability to influence change
• Ability to work well within the operational and directorate leadership team
• Compassionate leadership able to involve, challenge others as appropriate

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum, pro rata