Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Somerset NHS Charity; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Wolverhampton seeks a full-time Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join their multidisciplinary team. This role requires a Registered Nurse with significant diabetes care experience and emphasizes collaboration in delivering high-quality healthcare. The ideal candidate will work at New Cross Hospital and may need to assist at other sites. A competitive salary is offered, reflecting the importance of this position in improving patient care and outcomes.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Support for professional development

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• At least two years' experience as a Registered Nurse.
• Experience in inpatient, outpatient, or community diabetes care.
• Knowledge of diabetes technologies and clinical guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist nursing advice and support high quality care.
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.
• Deliver education on diabetes to healthcare professionals.

Skills

Diabetes care knowledge

Adaptability

Communication

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Health assessment qualification

V300 Non-medical prescribing

Job description

Main area Diabetes and Endocrinology Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 34.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 225-DIV2-7620415

Employer The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site The Diabetes Centre - C28 Town Wolverhampton Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/01/2026 12:00

Diabetes Specialist Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

Do you have a keen interest in specialising in diabetes care, or are you an experienced Diabetes Specialist Nurse (DSN) looking for your next rewarding challenge?

We warmly invite DSNs, as well as Registered Nurses looking to advance in this rewarding field, to join our welcoming, innovative multidisciplinary team as a Band 6 Diabetes Specialist Nurse. Here, you\'ll work alongside Consultant Diabetologists, Specialist Diabetes Practitioners/Nurses, Podiatrists, Dieticians and other passionate colleagues, all focused on making a meaningful difference to patient outcomes.

You\'ll be primarily based at New Cross Hospital, ensuring team continuity and a strong support network, with occasional opportunities to assist at neighbouring sites when clinical needs arise, demonstrating your adaptability and commitment to excellent patient care across our wider service. Our service hours are Monday to Friday 08:30-16:30 or 09:00-17:00, excluding bank holidays.

Applicants should be Registered Nurses with at least two years\' experience, ideally with expertise in either inpatient, outpatient or community diabetes care. A solid grasp of current diabetes technologies, and familiarity with key clinical guidelines. Progress towards TREND competencies is preferred.

Main duties of the job

Become part of our encouraging team, where your skills are acknowledged, your career development is supported, and your dedication to better diabetes care is genuinely valued. Whether you\'re a seasoned DSN or eager to specialise further, we invite caring and motivated professionals ready to make a meaningful difference to apply.

• In conjunction with the multidisciplinary team and in line with local and national targets provide specialist evidence based nursing advice to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients/clients and relatives/ carers without supervision.
• Support and deputise for senior diabetes specialist nurses. This will involve dealing with complex situations and having to take appropriate action in a variety of settings.
• Provide expert advice and education for Healthcare professionals involved in the care of people with diabetes and their carers.
• Be flexible in the approach to the clinical area and to provide cover at all sites, if required, acting as professional role model providing direct and indirect clinical care, teaching and research.

Although this post is advertised at part time (4.5 days/week) we have approval pending for an additional full time (5 days/week) post which will be interviewed for at the same time as this post.

You will be asked at interview which post you are applying for.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To ensure safe and effective clinical practice.

· Ensure a high standard of safe clinical care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council/HCPC, national legislation and local standards.

· Take personal responsibility for actions and omissions, and fully recognise personal accountability.

· Practise within an ethical framework based upon dignity and respect for the well-being and safety of patients and clients.

· Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence based practice within own work area.

· Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols, standards, policies and clinical guidelines within own work area.

· Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of audit, patient feedback and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.

· Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root cause analysis.

· Demonstrate effective communication within the multi-professional team regarding patient care.

· Undertake interventional procedures with appropriate consent

· Assess the risks involved in the care of patients and ensure utilisation of practices and protocols to minimise those risks, including safe use of medical devices.

· Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk

· Provide specialist advice to own and other professions on therapeutic interventions and clinical practice.

· Implement practices that are appropriate to patient and service need through in-depth knowledge,

· implications of and applying epidemiological, demographic, social, political and professional trends and developments.

· Lead by example, develop self and other staff, and influence the way care is given in a manner that is innovative, open and responds to individual needs.

· Provide clinical supervision to other staff.

· Work harmoniously and effectively with colleagues, patients and clients and their carers, families and friends, seeking advice from senior practitioners as necessary.

· Practise within the scope of personal professional competence and extend this scope as appropriate to service needs.

· Delegate aspects of care to others and accept responsibility and accountability for such delegation.

· Participate in peer review of own practice.

· Day to day supervision/training of staff/students.

· Critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of relevant research, evaluations and audits and apply the information when seeking to improve practice.

To enhance the patient’s experience

· To assess individuals holistically using a range of different assessment methods, use physical

· examination skills, order diagnostic tests for client group.

· Incorporate health promotion and prevention into care plans, and comprehensively assess patients for risk factors and early signs of illness.

· Utilise ‘making every contact count’ as an approach to change behaviour through interactions with individuals, carers, families to support them in making positive changes to their physical and mental health and wellbeing

· Plan and co-ordinate complete episodes of care, delegating and referring to other practitioners as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resource use.

· Safely use patient group directives (PGD)/ non-medical prescribing as appropriate

· Use professional judgement in managing care events and capture the learning from these experiences to improve patient care and service delivery.

· Work within defined boundaries of practice.

· Ensure an effective and efficient patient’s journey by planning and co-ordinating of the episode of care /caseload including the smooth transition to other settings, promoting safe and effective discharge from the service and optimising communication with interdisciplinary and interagency teams as required.

· Within a multidisciplinary team environment, develop a culture of person-centred care.

· Promote a caring and compassionate environment where equality and diversity issues are respected and patients are enabled to be partners in their care.

· Contribute to the development of care and services by ascertaining patient and carer experience/feedback and ensure complaints are managed in line with organisational policy, including the dissemination of learning points.

· Ensure that everyone within the sphere of care is treated with dignity and humanity, understanding individual needs, showing compassion and sensitivity, and provide care in a way that respects all people equally.

· Enable patients/clients to learn about their conditions and treatment by coordinating the implementation of plans appropriate to their preferred approach to learning, motivation and developmental stage.

· Be proactively involved in undertaking activities that monitor and improve the quality of healthcare and the effectiveness of own and others’ practice.

· Communicate effectively across a range of circumstances and individuals.

To ensure effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives

· Contribute to the development of an organisational culture that supports continuous learning and development, evidence-based practice and succession planning.

· Support the appraisal process by ensuing that personal development plans are developed and that they are consistent with the team’s and organisation’s objectives, succession planning and workforce development and support professional revalidation

· Network with peers across professional groups and clinical disciplines promoting the exchange of knowledge, skills and resources. Have high-level communication skills and contribute to wider development of practice by publicising and disseminating work through presentations at conferences and articles in the professional press.

· Demonstrate effective use of resources in decision-making and propose appropriate strategies to enhance quality, productivity and value in own sphere of work.

· Strive constantly to improve practice and health outcomes so that they are consistent with or better than national and international standards.

· Take an innovative and proactive approach to the redesign of clinical services, linked to organisational priorities and in support of improved outcomes.

· Support the development and implementation of the appropriate strategies for the organisation.

· Within clinical area ensure knowledge and implementation of the organisations quality and safety agenda.

· Develop and maintain a working knowledge of local, national and professional strategy and policy, ensuring that organisational goals and values are reflected in personal objectives.

· Demonstrate the ability to contribute to policy and strategy development at a departmental and organisational level and, where appropriate, national level.

· Demonstrate compliance to the pledges of the NHS Constitution 2012 and Trust values.

Act in a way which is consistent with the values based approach to care delivery

Person specification

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• Experience working with patients with Diabetes in an acute or community setting.
• Valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for work.
• Health assessment or equivalent qualification.
• V300 Non-medical prescribing.

Flexible Working - As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Qualifications - Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc) you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider. Furthermore, a sample of all applicants’ qualifications will be checked back to the educational institution or provider to interview letters to further deter fraud.

Visa/Sponsorship Information

The Trust welcomes suitably qualified applicants including those who may require a Trust issued Certificate of Sponsorship. However, not all our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. If you require sponsorship, we recommend applicants check whether the role is eligibility prior to applying. More information can be found on the UKVI website:Health and Care Worker Visa orSkilled Worker Visa .

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.