Diabetes Specialist Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Specialist Nurse within the Sefton Community Diabetes Team. The post holder will act as an expert practitioner, providing advanced assessment, treatment, and management for patients with complex diabetes needs. They will provide clinical leadership, deliver direct patient care, and support the development of clinical skills within the team. The role involves non-medical prescribing and contributing to service development and quality improvement initiatives.
Key responsibilities
- Act as an expert practitioner, providing advanced, evidence-based assessment, treatment, and management for patients with complex diabetes needs.
- Provide clinical leadership, supporting the team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
- Deliver direct patient care, offering expert education, self-management support, and clinical intervention to optimise patient outcomes.
- Undertake non-medical prescribing, initiating, adjusting, and reviewing diabetes-related treatments.
- Play an active role in service development and quality improvement initiatives.
Essential criteria
- IT literate.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to understand and analyse complex data
- Risk assessment skills
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Report writing skills
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
- Experience of management and clinical leadership
- Experience of successful multiagency working
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
- Understanding how other agencies work
- Degree or equivalent qualification (evidence of study at degree level or higher)
- Appropriate prescriber (V300)
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses relevant to specialist area
- Registration with relevant professional body
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Research skills
- Experience of delivering education and training programmes in specialist area
- Clinical Examination and Diagnostics (or working towards)
- First line management qualification
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Diabetes Specialist Nurse
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
We are recruiting a Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Specialist Nurse to join the Sefton Community Diabetes Team .
The post holder will demonstrate a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge base across all aspects of diabetes management and promote excellence in nursing practice within a dynamic and evolving healthcare environment.
As a senior clinician within the service, the post holder will:
- Act as an expert practitioner, providing advanced, evidence-based assessment, treatment, and management for patients with complex diabetes needs.
- Provide clinical leadership, supporting the team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
- Contribute to specialist case management, ensuring personalised and coordinated care pathways for patients across community settings.
- Deliver direct patient care, offering expert education, self-management support, and clinical intervention to optimise patient outcomes.
- Support the development of clinical skills within the team, role-modelling professional standards and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.
- Promote safe, effective, and proactive diabetes care, working collaboratively across multidisciplinary and system-wide teams.
- Post holder must hold V300 qualification.
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