Senior Diabetes Matron — Complex Care & System Leadership

The Methodist Church in Britain; Leeds; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 24,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with salary-sacr

Access to NHS Pension Scheme

Annual leave

Occupational sickness scheme

Secondees remain on their current/emlo

Job summary

The Methodist Church in Britain is seeking a Diabetes Matron for a Leeds system role in the Tier 3 Clinical Oversight Group. This 15-hour-a-week position focuses on advanced case assessment, MDT presentations, and steering step-up/step-down decisions across diabetes services.

You will supervise Tier 2 nurses, lead education for Practice Diabetes Leads, and contribute to programme audits and national guidance implementation within the Leeds Health & Care Partnership.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate Masters level or equivalent evidence of expert-level specialist practice.
• Recognised specialist diabetes qualification, such as a Diabetes Specialist Practitioner course.
• Teaching, training or mentorship qualification, or experience to an equivalent level.
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing (V300), or working towards

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical assessment for complex and atypical diabetes, including MODY, LADA, type 3c and ketosis-prone Type 2.
• Attend the weekly Tier 3 MDT, presenting cases, drafting shared care plans and owning the resulting nursing actions.
• Contribute to step-up and step-down decisions across the tiers, including CKD and stable Type 1 step-down from Year 2.
• Give advanced nursing input to complex case sign-off, including insulin optimisation, pre-operative optimisation and hypoglycaemia unawareness work-up.
• Prescribe independently across the diabetes formulary within scope of practice.
• Provide clinical supervision to the two Tier 2 Band 7 Clinical Lead Nurses for Diabetes and the Band 5 development post.
• Lead the interface between the programme and Tier 4 services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.
• Deliver quarterly TARGET-style education to Practice Diabetes Leads and Tier 1 nurses, and supervise pre-registration and post-registration learners.
• Lead clinical audit across the programme and implement changes arising from MHRA alerts and national guidance.
• Provide senior nursing representation in system-wide diabetes forums, including the Leeds ICB CaReMe Expert Reference Group.
• Engage with people in the most deprived neighbourhoods and priority groups, including people with learning disability, serious mental illness and those homeless or vulnerably housed.
• Contribute to the Year 2 business case, service development and outcomes evaluation

Skills

Expert diabetes knowledge

Clinical leadership

CGM interpretation

Insulin titration

MDT collaboration

Education

Masters level qualification

Diabetes Specialist Practitioner qualification

Teaching/mentorship qualification

Independent Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) or working towards

Job description

The Methodist Church in Britain is seeking a Diabetes Matron for a Leeds system role in the Tier 3 Clinical Oversight Group. This 15-hour-a-week position focuses on advanced case assessment, MDT presentations, and steering step-up/step-down decisions across diabetes services.

You will supervise Tier 2 nurses, lead education for Practice Diabetes Leads, and contribute to programme audits and national guidance implementation within the Leeds Health & Care Partnership.