Diabetes Specialist Nurse - Bedford Division

Modality Partnership; Luton; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Education and career development paths

Flexible working options

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Diabetes Specialist Nurse vacancy at Modality Partnership in the Bedford Division. This role involves autonomous specialist nursing to assess, treat, plan care and manage adults with diabetes and related cardiometabolic conditions within primary and community care.

You will work as part of a MDT to optimise diabetes care and lead on education and service improvement. We offer opportunities for development, flexible working options, and a strong commitment to care equity.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive, person-centred assessment and formulate clear, evidence-based management plans with agreed goals, follow-up and safety-netting.
• Optimise diabetes treatment, including oral therapies and injectable treatments, within professional competence and agreed prescribing arrangements.
• Assess and manage hypertension and wider cardiovascular and renal risk in people with diabetes, in accordance with current NICE guidance, local pathways and individual clinical circumstances.
• Work closely with GPs, pharmacists, nurses, healthcare assistants, dietitians, podiatry, community teams and secondary-care diabetes services as an expert member of the MDT.
• Provide specialist advice, education and clinical leadership to strengthen consistent, safe diabetes care across Modality sites.
• Provide visible clinical leadership to nurses and healthcare practitioners, supporting supervision, mentoring, competency development and confidence in diabetes care and technology.
• Use clinical audit, population-health data and quality-improvement methods to identify gaps in care and improve outcomes, while ensuring that individualised care remains central.

Job description

Diabetes Specialist Nurse - Bedford Division

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join our team at Kingsway & Bramingham Practice of Modality Partnership on a full-time basis. Working as an autonomous specialist nurse providing expert assessment, treatment, care planning and ongoing management for adults with Type 1, Type 2 and complex diabetes, together with associated cardiometabolic conditions, across primary and community care. The postholder will manage an appropriate specialist caseload and focus particularly on patients whose needs extend beyond routine long-term-condition review, including treatment intensification, multimorbidity, frailty, renal impairment, cardiovascular risk and uncontrolled hypertension.

At Modality Partnership, our CARE values Commitment, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence guide everything we do, and you’ll be joining a team that brings these values to life in every patient interaction and across the wider organisation.

Why Join Us?

• Minimum 27 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (pro rata)
• Employee discounts and benefits scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Education and career development pathways
• Enhanced family-friendly policies, flexible working options, and wellbeing initiatives

Main duties of the job

The role requires the postholder will manage an appropriate specialist caseload and focus particularly on patients whose needs extend beyond routine long-term-condition review, including treatment intensification, multimorbidity, frailty, renal impairment, cardiovascular risk and uncontrolled hypertension.

• Undertake comprehensive, person-centred assessment and formulate clear, evidence-based management plans with agreed goals, follow-up and safety-netting.
• Optimise diabetes treatment, including oral therapies and injectable treatments, within professional competence and agreed prescribing arrangements.
• Assess and manage hypertension and wider cardiovascular and renal risk in people with diabetes, in accordance with current NICE guidance, local pathways and individual clinical circumstances.
• Work closely with GPs, pharmacists, nurses, healthcare assistants, dietitians, podiatry, community teams and secondary-care diabetes services as an expert member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT).
• Provide specialist advice, education and clinical leadership to strengthen consistent, safe diabetes care across Modality sites.
• Provide visible clinical leadership to nurses and healthcare practitioners, supporting supervision, mentoring, competency development and confidence in diabetes care and technology.
• Use clinical audit, population-health data and quality-improvement methods to identify gaps in care and improve outcomes, while ensuring that individualised care remains central.

Overview of your organisation

Our Bedford practice(s) are part of Modality Partnership, one of the UK’s largest GP super-partnerships, serving over 500,000 patients with a workforce of more than 1,800 staff. We are committed to continuous improvement, equality, diversity, and inclusion, and offer clear career progression and development opportunities Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve health inequalities in the city.

All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.

Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.

Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.

You will love this job if you are passionate about diabetes care, committed to equitable outcomes for patients, interested in novel dietary approaches to diabetes management, lifestyle medicine and improving the patient experience and outcomes.

You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whilst working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.

Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.

Pre-employment

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations.

For recruitment to this role, you will be required to provide full Hep b vaccination evidence x 3, titre level and/or booster evidence. MMR and Varicella vaccination evidence/status

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.

References

References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.

Employment history

You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.