Diabetes Team Lead

NHS; Oswestry; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in the UK is seeking a Band 7 Diabetes Team Lead. This role involves providing operational leadership within the Sefton Place Community Diabetes Team, focusing on effective service delivery and team support. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in leadership and management, strong communication skills, and a commitment to patient-centered care. Ongoing training in diabetes care will be provided, ensuring support for the successful candidate's clinical development.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Training in diabetes care

Qualifications

• Significant experience of leadership & management.
• Experience at Band 6 level in community nursing setting.
• Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in community care.

Responsibilities

• Promote optimum health of patients through case management.
• Formulate care plans addressing individual patient needs.
• Ensure effective communication among stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Critical thinking

Operational planning

Patient-centered care

Education

First level Registered Nurse

Master's level study in relevant area of specialist nursing

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Summary

As a Band 7 Diabetes Team Lead, you will work within the Sefton Place Community Diabetes Team, providing operational leadership and team support. The post holder is expected to offer visible leadership, consistently demonstrating Mersey Care values and fostering a positive team culture. While knowledge of diabetes care would be advantageous, it is not essential for this role, as the primary focus is on delivering effective operational leadership and ensuring service continuity. Training in diabetes care can be provided to support the successful candidate in developing relevant clinical understanding.

Main Duties

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Diabetes Team Lead.

You will be expected to work across Sefton Place to provide a service to patients in Southport, Formby and the South Sefton area.

Experience in leadership and management is essential for this role. The successful candidate should demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to take initiative and work independently to guide and support the team effectively.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Details

Date posted: 05 January 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 6 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 350-CC7692128

Job locations: Litherland Town Hall, Hatton Hill Road, Sefton Place, L34 1PJ

Job Responsibilities

• To promote the attainment and maintenance of optimum health of patients who have long term conditions and acute disease management through predictive and proactive case management of an identified caseload of patients.
• To formulate care plans that address the expressed health, social and cultural needs of the patient as an individual through working in partnership with the patient, the GP, specialist nurses and other stakeholder providers.
• To promote patient centred care by integrating and co-ordinating the activities of the patient, relatives and carers, the individual practitioners, and teams in the provision of an efficacious management strategy for managing an individual's long-term condition.
• To ensure that appropriate information regarding the condition of the patient is known to the GP and other appropriate stakeholder providers, by the development and maintenance of effective systems of inter-agency, inter-disciplinary communications.
• In liaison with Integrated Community Nursing Teams, Social Services and GPs, provide clinical leadership to nursing teams to enable them to develop approaches that address the needs of patients with complex long-term conditions and acute disease.
• Support pathways for smooth transition between primary, secondary, and tertiary care for patients, particularly those who are newly diagnosed or whose symptoms are poorly controlled, by liaison with specialists within primary and secondary care. Making direct referral of patients for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures using the care pathways approach.
• Inform the development of policies and procedures relevant to the care of people with long term conditions and acute diseases by co-operating and assisting in research programmes relating to the client group.
• Valuing the contributions that users of the service can make in reshaping services by developing systems and processes that engage those users meaningfully to ensure services are designed to meet expressed need.
• Ensure services are delivered and sustained in line with NICE guidelines/local targets and understand principles of disease management by leading, motivating, educating, and developing colleagues and others.
• Promote admission avoidance and early discharge by effective liaison with internal and external stakeholders.

Person Specification

• Significant experience of leadership & management
• Experience at Band 6 level in community nursing setting
• Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in community care /chronic disease management/long term conditions/palliative, end of life care
• Evidence of collaborative working with multiprofessional colleagues
• Evidence of effective communication across all levels of the organisation and with all stakeholders
• Awareness of current initiatives within the local & National health economy and of applicable guidelines, protocols, and frameworks
• Knowledge and experience of budget management
• Up to date knowledge of current Government and Local agendas and how these translate into local practice
• Evidence of providing professional/clinical leadership at postgraduate level
• Good working knowledge of the clinical governance agenda/National & Local priorities

Desirable

• Research & Development experience
• Experience of managing complaints

Skills Essential

• Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding
• Ability to exercise critical thinking skills
• Ability to analyse date and present information to various audiences
• Ability to implement programmes or work streams leading to service changes
• Demonstrates up to date evidence based clinical knowledge in relation to community nursing
• Forward thinking able to identify opportunities for improvement in service development
• Motivated - able to motivate self and others to deliver a quality service
• Operational planning and delivery of care for complex caseloads including chronic disease management/Long term conditions/palliative care
• Computer literate - ability to use software programmes designed to maximise the contribution to the post
• Must have access to a vehicle & be able to commute to meet the demands of the role and remain flexible - to meet the demands of the service

Values Essential

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Qualifications Essential

• First level Registered Nurse
• Evidence of Post registration education in related areas
• Master's level study in relevant area of specialist nursing

Desirable Qualifications

• Practice Teacher willingness to undertake
• Previous management course/qualification
• First level qualification in District Nursing / specialist Practitioners qualification in District Nursing
• Nurse Prescriber V150/300
• Master's degree

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offences 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer Details

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Litherland Town Hall, Hatton Hill Road, Sefton Place, L34 1PJ

Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)