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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

Education and Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 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

Desirable criteria

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

Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

• Experience of quality, standard setting and audit
• Ability to lead and inspire a large team
• Organisation and management skills
• Negotiating skills
• Team building skills
• Appraisal 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

Desirable criteria

• Experience of quality, standard setting and audit
• Ability to lead and inspire a large team
• Organisation and management skills
• Negotiating skills
• Team building skills
• Appraisal 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

Essential criteria

• Experience of: Improving projects
• Leading and developing a team
• Effective budget management
• 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

Desirable criteria

• GIRFT
• DAFNE
• Insulin Pumps

Knowledge

Essential criteria

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

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• JD (PDF, 704.3KB)
• FRF (PDF, 408.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)