Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join their team. The role involves assessing and treating patients with diabetes, providing specialist advice, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have a relevant degree, extensive experience in diabetes care, and skills in group education and patient assessment. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and is located in London.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level in diabetes.
• Experience working with type 1 and complex type 2 diabetes.
• Worked in a community setting.

Responsibilities

• Assess, treat, and prescribe for patients with diabetes.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate a seamless specialist service.
• Provide specialist advice, education, and support to healthcare professionals.

Skills

Group education skills

History taking and physical assessment

Data interpretation and analysis

Education

BSC/1st degree (health related)

Non medical Prescribing

Advanced Assessment Skills

Job description

Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Closing date: 04 November 2025

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and enthusiastic experienced diabetes nurse to join the Diabetes service at Guy's & St Thomas which includes our Lambeth and Southwark Community Sites.

As a department we are very patient focused supporting innovation and service development to continually improve care for people with diabetes. We are a busy tertiary specialist diabetes centre with over 2000 people with type 1 diabetes and 600 people on Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (insulin pumps). We also have a forward‑thinking community service across the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark actively supporting patients with T1 and Type 2 diabetes. Education of patients and other health care colleagues is an essential part of this role.

We are looking for a nurse who has experience in diabetes specialist nursing across any of the specialist care pathways including antenatal care of patients with pre‑existing and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). If you enjoy multidisciplinary team working in a busy progressive environment that is continually striving to improve care for the population it serves, this post is for you.

The successful candidate will join a relatively large diabetes nursing team that provide specialist care across integrated clinical pathways working across in‑patients, specialist out‑patients and the community/intermediate care setting.

Main duties of the job

The primary function of the role is to act as highly specialised diabetes nurse working autonomously to assess, treat and prescribe for patients with diabetes and advise non‑specialist practitioners on diabetes management plans as required. The specialist diabetes nurses are one integrated team across the community and secondary care diabetes services.

In partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service, ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. They act as a lead specialist and will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service, providing specialist advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients. The post holder will actively undertake clinical audits and research within the specialist area.

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues. Also ensures the safety and well‑being of service users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centred care principles.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world‑class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Job responsibilities

The primary function of the role is to act as highly specialised diabetes nurse working autonomously to assess, treat and prescribe for patients with diabetes and advise non‑specialist practitioners on diabetes management plans as required. The specialist diabetes nurses are one integrated team across the community and secondary care diabetes services.

This is a hybrid integrated hospital / community DSN post based within GSTT Diabetes service.

In partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service, within the antenatal service working closely with diabetologists, specialist dietitian, and the specialist midwifery and obstetric teams ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. They act as a lead specialist and will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service, providing specialist advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients. The post holder will actively undertake clinical audits and research within the specialist area.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Education

• BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
• Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent.
• Non medical Prescribing
• Advanced Assessment Skills
• Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level in diabetes
• Working with people with type 1 and complex type 2 diabetes
• Previous experience group education
• Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
• To have worked in a community setting

Skills and Knowledge

• Developed skills of group education
• Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care
• Ability to interpret and analyse data and findings

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Thomas's

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

Job locations

St Thomas's

£56,276 to £63,176 a yearp.a. inclusive of HCA