Diabetes Specialist Nurse Manager

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a Diabetes Nurse Manager to lead and develop diabetes services. This role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to ensure effective and safe care for diabetes patients. Ideal candidates will possess a strong background in leadership and clinical guidelines, providing expert advice while managing complex projects. The position offers career development opportunities and requires significant experience in nursing and diabetes care.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Staff recognition scheme

Optional Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with significant experience in leadership roles.
• Demonstrable clinical experience in Diabetes care.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage development of diabetes services.
• Provide expert clinical guidance and strategic direction.
• Oversee clinical research projects and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Quality assurance

Change management

Advanced communication

IT Skills

Strategic planning

Education

Postgraduate degree

Management qualification

Post-Graduate Diabetes Course

Job description

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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 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.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

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.

Person Specification

Education and Professional Qualifications

• 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
• Project Management
• Research and audit experience in Diabetes
• Significant experience as a clinical leader in Diabetes
• Specialty specific qualification

Skills/Abilities

• Experience of quality, standard setting and audit
• Ability to lead and inspire a large team
• Organisation and management 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
• Experience of quality, standard setting and audit
• Ability to lead and inspire a large team
• Organisation and management 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

• Experience of: Improving projects
• Leading and developing a team
• 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
• GIRFT
• DAFNE
• Insulin Pumps

Knowledge

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

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.