Diabetes Specialist Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 19/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join a multi-disciplinary team in Leeds. You will undertake complex assessments, implement treatment plans, and provide education to patients with type 2 diabetes through face-to-face, telephone clinics, and home visits. The position requires excellent communication skills and a commitment to patient self-management. It can be offered as a development role for those with diabetes experience but not yet a specialist nurse.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Are you a diabetes specialist nurse looking for a new
role in the community, then we have the role for you.
We are currently recruiting to two full-time band 6
diabetes specialist nurse roles. To be eligible for this role you must
currently work or have worked previously as a diabetes specialist nurse. The
role can however be offered as a band 5-6 development role for anyone with
diabetes experience, but who has not worked as a diabetes specialist nurse
before.
We have an exciting opportunity for a diabetes specialist
nurse to join our multi-disciplinary team, made up of nurses, dietitians,
GPsi's, diabetes facilitators and pharmacists. If successful you would be
working across Leeds to provide face to face and telephone clinics, carrying
out home visits and providing education groups for patients with type 2
diabetes.
This role would suit someone who is enthusiastic and
committed to providing excellent diabetes care, and who wants to further
develop their knowledge and skills in this speciality. We, as a team, are
committed to staff wellbeing and development, and the successful candidate will
be supported to completed NMP if not already done so as this is an essential
requirement of the role.
Main duties of the job
The role requires excellent communication skills as you
will undertake complex assessments of patients with diabetes, implement
treatment plan
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