East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Specialist Diabetes Practitioner
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Opportunity for Specialist Diabetes Practitioner, Band 7
An opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced Specialist Diabetes Practitioner, Band 7 to join the North East Essex Diabetes Service (NEEDS), a multidisciplinary diabetes team delivering specialist care across community and primary care settings, with strong links to secondary care services.
About NEEDS
NEEDS is an award-winning service comprising three Consultant Diabetologists/Endocrinologists, a team of Specialist Diabetes Practitioners from a range of professional backgrounds, and a highly valued administrative team. We provide specialist diabetes care to approximately 25,000 people across North East Essex and deliver services including:
- Complex diabetes management
- Young adult diabetes clinics
- Pre-pregnancy and antenatal diabetes care
- Insulin pump and diabetes technology services
- Multidisciplinary foot services
- Structured diabetes education programmes
We have a strong focus on integrated working and collaborates closely with primary care, community services, pharmacy, mental health services, lifestyle services, and the ICB. We are committed to improving diabetes outcomes through education, mentorship, quality improvement, service development, and population health approaches.
Requirements
A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes are essential.
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We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.
Proposed Interview date
15th September 2026
Responsibilities
You will manage a complex caseload autonomously, providing highly specialist diabetes assessment, treatment, education, and support. You will play a key role in delivering person-centred care, supporting self-management, reducing diabetes-related complications, and improving outcomes for people living with diabetes.
Your role will include:
- Supporting education for patients, carers, and healthcare professionals
- Contributing to audit and quality improvement
- Supervising junior staff and students
- Supporting service development initiatives
About ESNEFT
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics, and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
Benefits
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
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Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals, we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata), and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Adele Holcombe
- Job title: NEEDS Diabetes Clinical Lead Practitioner
- Email address: adele.holcombe@esneft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07816 85 7779
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