Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Diabetes Team at North Middlesex University Hospital as a Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist. This role is critical in providing high-quality diabetes care and education to diverse patients, ensuring their needs are met through evidence-based interventions in partnership with healthcare professionals.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with post registration experience in diabetes care.
• Experience of teaching, mentorship, and working independently.
• Willingness to develop advanced nursing practice in diabetes.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of diabetes patients and run nurse-led clinics.
• Provide education and advice on diabetes treatment options.
• Collaborate with healthcare providers to enhance patient care.

Skills

Expert specialist skills and knowledge of managing patients with diabetes

Knowledge of current advances and pathway of care relevant to Diabetes

Ability to problem solve, prioritise, and work to deadlines

Ability to develop collaborative working relationships with Multi professional teams

Education

Registered Nurse

Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification

Diabetes course

Master’s degree or working towards

Advanced assessment skills or willing to work towards

Tools

Skilled in use of computers and MS Office packages

Job description

If you want to be part of the Royal Free London team, search our current vacancies below to find the job for you.

Site North Middlesex Hospital Town London Salary £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 18/06/2025 23:59

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

We have an opportunity for a Diabetes Clinical Nurse specialists to join the Diabetes Team at North Middlesex University Hospital.

The Diabetes Specialist Nurse role is integral to working in partnership with both inpatient and outpatient services, to ensure a high quality, needs led service exists for diabetic patients treated within NMUH.

The post holder will provide a high standard of diabetes specialist intervention and education across a diverse and multicultural population.

This role is key in working in partnership with service users, other healthcare providers and professionals to plan, develop, implement and evaluate service developments and diabetes interventions based on current evidence based guidelines and policies, which respond to local need, Trust strategic objectives, government initiatives and national policies.

Main duties of the job

This role is key in working in partnership with service users, other healthcare providers and professionals to plan, develop, implement and evaluate service developments and diabetes interventions based on current evidence based guidelines and policies, which respond to local need, Trust strategic objectives, government initiatives and national policies.

The successful candidate will have excellent working knowledge of how to manage both outpatient and inpatients with Diabetes whilst working collaboratively as a team to ensure all patients are seen and reviewed within the necessary timeframes and provided with outstanding care.

We are looking for a kind, compassionate and motivated individual to join the Diabetes CNS team.

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Ensure that the needs of patients are placed at the center of care delivery, thus achieving trust and national standards for clinical quality, safety and patient experience.

To participate in and manage caseload of diabetes patients with the support of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Lead nurse and specialty Consultants and specialist registrars.

To run nurse led clinics independently with clinical guidance as needed for specialties

Provide appropriate and timely education and advice to patients on all treatment options available.

To act as a clinical expert role model in nursing care to other nurses with regards to Diabetes.

To develop advanced nursing practice in diabetes whilst being aware of personal and professional limitations.

To assist with cross cover of the Diabetes Specialist Nurses within own clinical competence.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification
• Diabetes course
• Master’s degree or working towards
• Advances assessment skills or willing to work towards

Skills and abilities

• Expert specialist skills and knowledge of managing patients with diabetes
• Knowledge of current advances and pathway of care relevant to Diabetes
• Skilled in use of computers and MS Office packages
• Ability to problem solve, prioritise, work to deadlines and self-motivated
• Ability to develop collaborative working relationships with Multi professional teams
• Competence in intravenous administration in accordance to Trust guidance

Experience

• Post registration experience of nursing patients with Diabetes
• Experience of teaching
• Experience of autonomous practice
• Experience of audit and research
• Experience of mentoring and managing junior staff and students
• Experience of developing innovative practice and managing change
• Team player
• Leads by good example
• Able to build good working relationships with staff and patients
• Is able to deal with issues in a confidential non-judgemental way
• Is able to accept and act on constructive advice

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to NMUH transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.