Diabetes Specialist Nurse Manager | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a proactive Diabetes Nurse Manager to lead and improve diabetes services. The role emphasizes strategic development, quality improvement, and ensuring safe, patient-centered care. Ideal candidates will possess strong leadership and operational delivery skills. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working options

Staff recognition scheme

Qualifications

• Expertise in diabetes service development and management is essential.
• Ability to lead complex projects and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong communication skills for partnership working at various levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of specialist diabetes services.
• Provide strategic direction and expert guidance for diabetes care.
• Champion quality improvement and patient-centered care.

Skills

Leadership

Quality improvement

Operational delivery

Change management

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 Imperial College Healthcare

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

Culture and Benefits

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.

Equality and Flexibility

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 Details

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.

This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Sep 2025