Diabetes Specialist Nurse Manager

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in London seeks a dynamic Diabetes Nurse Manager to monitor and improve diabetes services. The role involves collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality care and requires significant clinical and management experience. Candidates should possess a postgraduate degree, quality assurance skills, and proven leadership capabilities. Competitive salary and opportunities for career development offered.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing initiatives

Staff recognition scheme

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Nurse with evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Significant post-registration experience in a leadership position is required.
• Strong track record in clinical oversight and diabetes care is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and evaluation of diabetes services.
• Provide expert clinical guidance to stakeholders.
• Ensure safe, effective patient-centered diabetes care.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Quality assurance

Organizational skills

Education

Postgraduate degree or equivalent experience

Management or Leadership qualification

Post-Graduate Diabetes Course

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a dynamic, proactive, and values-driven Diabetes Nurse Manager to lead the strategic development and continuous improvement of diabetes services across our organisation in a non-clinical nursing leadership role.

This is a rare and exciting opportunity for a senior healthcare professional with a strong track record in leadership, transformation, quality improvement, and operational delivery. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams, system partners, and commissioners to shape and implement services that are safe, effective, equitable, and responsive to the needs of people living with diabetes.

While a working knowledge of diabetes pathways is beneficial, you do not need to be a clinical expert. What matters is your ability to lead change, deliver complex projects, and ensure governance, safety, and performance are at the heart of service delivery.

If you\'re a driven and compassionate nursing leader ready to transform diabetes services and influence positive change at scale, we\'d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the development, implementation, and evaluation of specialist diabetes services to ensure high quality, evidence-based care.
• Provide expert clinical guidance and strategic direction, working closely with senior leadership, NHS commissioners, and external stakeholders to shape service priorities.
• Maintain clinical oversight to ensure safe, effective, and patient-centred diabetes care, managing processes for assessment, diagnosis, treatment, referral, follow-up, and discharge.
• Ensure all patients are appropriately assessed for comorbidities, concurrent medications, and risk factors before initiating diabetes treatment or therapies.
• Ensure staffing is in line with Trust policy.
• Champion a culture of learning and quality improvement in the clinical area.
• Work in partnership with hospital leadership, commissioners, primary care networks (PCNs), and patient advocacy groups to enhance service accessibility and efficiency.
• Oversee and support clinical research projects, service evaluations, and quality improvement initiatives to advance diabetes care.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You\'ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Details

Date posted: 16 September 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for Change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £64,156 to £71,148 a year pa inclusive

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 290-MIC-1809

Job locations: Trustwide, London, W2 1NY

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Qualifications

Education and Professional Qualifications

• Essential:
  • Registered Nurse
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Educated to postgraduate degree level or equivalent experience
  • Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
  • Management or Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrable clinical experience within the relevant area – Diabetes
  • Significant post-registration experience in a leadership position
  • Post-Graduate Diabetes Course
• Desirable:
  • Masters/PhD level qualification
  • Project Management
  • Research and audit experience in Diabetes
  • Significant experience as a clinical leader in Diabetes
  • Specialty specific qualification

Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Experience of quality, standard setting and audit
• Ability to lead and inspire a large team
• Organisation and management skills
• Negotiating skills
• Team building skills
• Appraisal skills
• Ability to manage change effectively & deal with complex and difficult situations
• Experience of leading people through change
• Articulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• IT Skills (including Microsoft Office packages and fast and accurate keyboard skills)
• Capable of working strategically
• Analyse complex information to make operational decisions
• Maintain accurate records
• Ability to plan and organise complex activities e.g. planning specialist training

Desirable

• Experience of quality, standard setting and audit
• Ability to lead and inspire a large team
• Organisation and management skills
• Negotiating skills
• Team building skills
• Appraisal skills
• Ability to manage change effectively & deal with complex and difficult situations
• Experience of leading people through change
• Articulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• IT Skills (including Microsoft Office packages and fast and accurate keyboard skills)

Experience

Essential

• Experience of: Improving projects
• Leading and developing a team
• Effective budget management
• Quality assurance
• Change management
• Complaints handling
• Research and audit
• Trust wide initiatives/ committee membership
• Working at a senior nursing level at band 7
• Delivering training

Desirable

• GIRFT
• DAFNE
• Insulin Pumps

Knowledge

Essential

• Quality, standard setting, benchmarking and audit
• Budget and people management
• Sound knowledge of both clinical and non-clinical policies
• Current issues in healthcare/nursing

Compliance

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a Disclosure to check for previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address: Trustwide, London, W2 1NY

Employer's website: imperial.nhs.uk