Senior Children's Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Hull is seeking a Senior Children's Diabetes Specialist Nurse to lead the diabetes nursing team. Responsibilities include managing a caseload, providing expert advice, and developing clinical practices. Applicants should have significant experience in diabetes care and relevant qualifications. The role offers opportunities for professional development and requires flexible working across hospital and community settings.

Qualifications

• Experience of managing a caseload of children with diabetes.
• Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake.
• Ability to deliver complex information to various audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the children's diabetes specialist nursing team.
• Provide expert advice to healthcare professionals.
• Develop evidence-based clinical nursing practice.

Skills

Professional Clinical knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work autonomously

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Evidence of ongoing professional self-development

Education

RSCN/RN (child) and current NMC Registration

Children & Young people's diabetes care module

Masters degree or equivalent

Job description

Senior Children\'s Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Closing date: 30 September 2025

The post holder will take responsibility under the direction of the Consultant body to deliver an expert nursing service to patients with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. In addition, some of the caseload will include Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) and Cystic Fibrosis related diabetes, from diagnosis until discharge or transition to the adult service.

You will deliver specialist nursing skills, demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and expertise in the autonomous management of children and young people within the diabetes service, to include nurse-led consultations with the child and family.

You will ensure that patients and families are educated, informed and supported by providing clinical and social support in relation to their specific diagnosis. It will be necessary to work flexibly with a caseload of patients, across both the hospital and community settings.

The post holder will provide expert advice to other health care professionals and initiate guideline-based therapies to address acute management issues. You will establish clear lines of communication with primary healthcare teams in order to increase knowledge and facilitate the care of this group of patients in the community.

Working across organisational, regional and national settings and as part of the multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• To hold responsibility of the children\'s diabetes specialist nursing team
• It will be necessary to work flexibly across a caseload of patients across both the hospital and community setting for local patients and to provide expert advice to other health care professionals and initiate guidelines based therapies that address acute management issues for diabetes
• The post holder will lead the development of evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines and will participate in audit.
• The post holder will work across organisational, regional and national boundaries and form good working relationships with colleagues within the regional diabetes network.
• Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. You can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on thegov.uk website.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and the Person Specification for further details regarding the main duties and responsibilities of the job.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• RSCN/RN (child) and current NMC Registration
• Children & Young people\'s diabetes care module or equivalent qualification
• Teaching and Assessing qualification/mentorship course
• Current practice assessor and supervisor on the live database
• Evidence of ongoing continuing professional development
• Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake this
• Masters degree or equivalent
• Counselling qualification

Application completion

• ALL sections of application form FULLY completed

Knowledge, training * experience

• Professional Clinical knowledge acquired through significant experience at Band 6 or above
• Significant experience of caring for children and young people with Type 1 & Type 2 Diabetes
• Able to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Evidence of having worked collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team
• Understanding of professional and current issues in children\'s health care including local and national guidance
• Evidence of ongoing professional self-development
• Experience of managing a caseload
• Proven ability to coordinate and delegate workload appropriately
• Knowledge of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
• Experience of involvement in service development
• Experience of participation in research and audit
• Experience of delivering presentations to a wide range of audiences
• Experience of managing staff
• Experience of managing conflict

Communication & interpersonal skills

• Ability to build credibility quickly and sustain it this within the organisation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to deal with telephone enquiries from staff, patients and carers using judgment to respond or refer to appropriate personnel
• Ability to impart complex information to patients, relatives and carers with different levels of understanding
• Ability to interact directly with patients who may recently have being diagnosed with a serious chronic condition and their family members
• Able to deliver and receive complex/ highly sensitive information from consultants, other medical staff and health professionals
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to respond effectively to multiple priorities
• Demonstrates the ability to make sound judgements and generate new ideas in complex situations
• Ability to use IT systems and software to collect/manage data and create reports
• Assertively engage young people and families and carers
• Demonstrates leadership ability

Special attributes and other

• Accepts guidance and supervision form senior colleagues
• Personal and professional appearance and credibility
• Ability to lead and motivate others
• Ability to prioritise own workload to work inside clinical targets and deadlines
• Conscientious, honest, reliable and a good timekeeper
• Full driving licence with access to a car
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the demands of the service

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.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust