Diabetes Specialist Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Diabetes Specialist Nurse (DSN) to enhance diabetes care standards across Liverpool's Community and Primary Care Services. The role involves working autonomously, delivering complex educational packages to healthcare professionals and patients, and contributing to audit and service improvement. The DSN will provide clinical expertise, support multi-professional teams, and manage a defined patient caseload, offering highly specialist advice and evaluating care programs.
Key responsibilities
- Perform specialist assessment of people with diabetes. Plan, implement and evaluate care delivery using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills.
- Lead clinical care by managing a patient caseload providing expert assessment, planning and evaluation with the support of the band 7 CNS and the wider MDT.
- Co-ordinate and manage patient reviews from the Diabetes Dashboard or other referral systems.
- Support patients and their families and ensure that they receive the required information to enable them to self-manage, lead or participate in their care delivery and to support safe discharge.
- Takes responsibility for own continuing professional development and performance, including identifying own development needs and maintain own portfolio in accordance with re-registration requirements.
- Participates in the supervision and the teaching of pre and post registration students, new staff members and junior medical staff. Providing in-reach education to clinical areas to support safe diabetes patient care.
Essential criteria
- Diplomatic
- Assertive and confident
- Recognition of own limitations
- Able to travel between sites
- Flexibility
- Teaching / assessment skills Organisation and negotiation skills
- Effective communicator
- Root Cause Analysis
- Leadership & motivation skills
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Evidence of audit and change management ability
- Computer literate
- Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team
- In depth specialist knowledge
- Post registration experience
- Extensive clinical experience
- Involvement in audit
- Registered Nurse / Midwife/AHP
- Post-basic specialist Qualification relevant to speciality
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Participation in research
- Evidence of leading and facilitating change
- Recordable specialist qualification
- Independent Nurse Prescribing
- ECDL
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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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Diabetes Specialist Nurse
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Diabetes Specialist Nurse (DSN) to be at the forefront of driving up standards and quality in diabetes care in Community and Primary Care Services across the city of Liverpool. The role will include working in a variety of other clinical areas, local communities and the Primary Care Networks. Working in partnership with the diabetes teams of Liverpool Universities NHS Hospital Trust and services delivered by Mersey Care the role is diverse, varied and offers the opportunity for innovation and change.
The post holder should have experience of working autonomously within the field of Diabetes and with the ability to work to evidence-based guidelines; consideration will be given to applicants under annex 21 AFC terms and conditions. Audit the care given to patients to make and suggest improvements in services.
The post holder will also be required to deliver complex educational packages to health care professionals and patients around effective diabetes management.
Main duties of the job
Supported by the Team Leader the post holder will provide clinical expertise and professional resource to Multi-Professional teams, patients and carers within the Speciality service. The post holder will support
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