Key Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist diabetes nursing care to patients across community and primary care settings.
• Undertake complex clinical assessments, identifying physical, psychological, social, and cultural factors that may impact care.
• Initiate, review, and evaluate diabetes treatment plans in accordance with local and national guidance.
• Work autonomously while contributing effectively within a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Provide specialist advice, education, and support to patients, carers, and healthcare colleagues.
• Contribute to clinical governance, service development, audit, and quality improvement activities.
• Support the development of standards, protocols, and safe clinical practice across the service.
• Maintain high-quality clinical documentation and participate in team and professional network meetings.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Qualifications and Experience

• First Level Registered Nurse.
• Evidence of post-registration development in diabetes nursing.
• Significant post-registration experience within the speciality of diabetes.
• Experience supporting patients with diabetes in acute, community, or primary care settings.

Knowledge and Skills

• Current knowledge of diabetes care, NICE guidance, and evidence-based practice.
• Understanding of relevant NHS legislation and policy.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to interpret and analyse complex clinical information.
• Effective workload management and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to work independently and use professional judgement.
• Competent IT skills.

Desirable Criteria

• Degree or Diploma in a health-related subject.
• Independent Non-Medical Prescriber qualification.
• Experience undertaking clinical audits.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience delivering education to healthcare professionals and patients.
• Experience developing protocols and supporting service improvement.

For full details of the role, responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the attached Job Description.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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