Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Diabetes Specialist Nurse to lead diabetes care initiatives across community and primary care settings. The role involves autonomous clinical work, education delivery and collaboration with hospital diabetes teams.

The post holder will be a non-medical prescriber, delivering evidence-based diabetes management and participating in service development in the Liverpool health economy.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse / Midwife with post-basic specialist qualification in diabetes care.
• Experience working autonomously in diabetes and using evidence-based guidelines.
• Ability to deliver complex educational packages to healthcare professionals and patients.
• Post holder will be a non-medical prescriber.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical expertise and professional resource to multi-professional teams, patients and carers.
• Support development of specialist practice in partnership with other teams across Acute, Community and Primary Care.
• Manage a defined diabetes caseload and provide expert assessment, planning and evaluation.
• Coordinate patient reviews from the Diabetes Dashboard and other referrals.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary management and discharge planning.
• Support self-management education and delivery of care with safe discharge.

Skills

Teaching/assessment

Organisation/negotiation

Motivation

Audit/change management

Teamwork/initiative

Education

Registered Nurse

Post-basic specialist qualification

Continued professional development

ECDL

Job description

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Diabetes Specialist Nurse

The closing date is 12 November 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a fixed term / secondment Diabetes Specialist Nurse (DSN) post to be at the forefront of driving up standards and quality in diabetes care in Community and Primary Care Services across the city of Liverpool.

The role will include working in a variety of other clinical areas, local communities and the Primary Care Networks. Working in partnership with the diabetes teams of Liverpool Universities NHS Hospital Trust and services delivered by Mersey Care the role is diverse, varied and offers the opportunity for innovation and change.

The post holder will be a non-medical prescriber and have experience of working autonomously within the field of Diabetes and with the ability to work to evidence-based guidelines; audit the care given to patients to make and suggest improvements in services. The post holder will also be required to deliver complex educational packages to health care professionals and patients around effective diabetes management.

Main duties of the job

Supported by the Team Leader the post holder will provide clinical expertise and professional resource to Multi-Professional teams, patients and carers within the Speciality service.

The post holder will support the development of specialist area of practice in partnership with other members of the speciality teams across Acute, Community and Primary Care Service.

The post holder will be a major contributer to Diast Team working on a defined case load offering highly specialist advice, setting standards of care, the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

The post holder will contribute to achieving the objectives of the clinical service group/speciality corporate objectives and work within the clinical governance framework. As part of the Community Diabetes Team the post holder will support the development and delivery of a programme of practice and professional development for delivery of care within the specialist area across the Liverpool Health Economy.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Job responsibilities

The role of the band 6 CNS in Diabetes includes the following: -

• Perform specialist assessment of people with diabetes. Plan, implement and evaluate care delivery using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills.
• Undertake the diabetes competency programme of education based on the national TREND Diabetes competencies.
• Lead clinical care by managing a patient caseload providing expert assessment, planning and evaluation with the support of the band 7 CNS and the wider MDT.
• Co-ordinate and manage patient reviews from the Diabetes Dashboard or other referral systems.
• Contribute towards a multi-professional approach in the management of patients within the specialist area, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements.
• Support patients and their families and ensure that they receive the required information to enable them to self-manage, lead or participate in their care delivery and to support safe discharge.
• To support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in the review of people with complex needs, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.
• Takes responsibility for own continuing professional development and performance, including identifying own development needs and maintain own portfolio in accordance with re-registration requirements.
• Participates in the supervision and the teaching of pre and post registration students, new staff members and junior medical staff. Providing in-reach education to clinical areas to support safe diabetes patient care.
• Contribute to the development of educational programmes in relation to diabetes care.
• Identifies training needs and develop training resources for nursing staff to enable role development and to meet the needs of the service.
• Take part in diabetes awareness programmes and national diabetes awareness activities to promote and support diabetes education and safe care across the organisation.

Person Specification

Other

• Diplomatic
• Assertive and confident
• Recognition of own limitations
• Able to travel between sites
• Flexibility

Skills

• Teaching / assessment skills Organisation and negotiation skills
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Evidence of audit and change management ability
• Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team

Knowledge

Experience

• Extensive clinical experience
• Participation in research
• Evidence of leading and facilitating change

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse / Midwife
• Post-basic specialist Qualification relevant to speciality
• Evidence of continued professional development
• ECDL

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.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust