Diabetes Team Lead

Mersey Care; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the United Kingdom is seeking a Band 7 Diabetes Team Lead. This role requires operational leadership and patient-centered care management for individuals with chronic conditions. Key qualifications include experience in community nursing and effective communication skills. The position offers a salary of £47,810 to £54,710 and is fixed-term for 6 months. Ideal candidates must be first-level registered nurses with relevant postgraduate education.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of leadership & management.
• Experience at Band 6 level in community nursing.
• Evidence of collaborative working with multiprofessional colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Promote optimum health through predictive case management.
• Formulate patient-specific care plans.
• Integrate activities of patients with healthcare providers.

Skills

Leadership & management

Critical thinking

Data analysis

Communication skills

Operational planning

Computer literacy

Education

First level Registered Nurse

Post registration education in related areas

Master's level study in relevant area of specialist nursing

Job description

Job Summary

As a Band 7 Diabetes Team Lead, you will work within the Sefton Place Community Diabetes Team, providing operational leadership and team support. The post holder is expected to offer visible leadership, consistently demonstrating Mersey Care values and fostering a positive team culture. While knowledge of diabetes care would be advantageous, it is not essential for this role, as the primary focus is on delivering effective operational leadership and ensuring service continuity. Training in diabetes care can be provided to support the successful candidate in developing relevant clinical understanding.

Responsibilities

• Promote the attainment and maintenance of optimum health of patients who have long term conditions and acute disease management through predictive and proactive case management of an identified caseload of patients.
• Formulate care plans that address the expressed health, social and cultural needs of the patient as an individual through working in partnership with the patient, the GP, specialist nurses and other stakeholder providers.
• Promote patient-centred care by integrating and co-ordinating the activities of the patient, relatives and carers, the individual practitioners, and teams in the provision of an efficacious management strategy for managing an individual's long-term condition.
• Ensure that appropriate information regarding the condition of the patient is known to the GP and other appropriate stakeholder providers, by the development and maintenance of effective systems of inter-agency, inter-disciplinary communications.
• In liaison with Integrated Community Nursing Teams, Social Services and GPs, provide clinical leadership to nursing teams to enable them to develop approaches that address the needs of patients with complex long-term conditions and acute disease.
• Support pathways for smooth transition between primary, secondary, and tertiary care for patients, particularly those who are newly diagnosed or whose symptoms are poorly controlled, by liaison with specialists within primary and secondary care. Make direct referral of patients for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures using the care pathways approach.
• Inform the development of policies and procedures relevant to the care of people with long term conditions and acute diseases by co-operating and assisting in research programmes relating to the client group. Value the contributions that users of the service can make in reshaping services by developing systems and processes that engage those users meaningfully to ensure services are designed to meet expressed need.
• Ensure services are delivered and sustained in line with NICE guidelines/local targets and understand principles of disease management by leading, motivating, educating, and developing colleagues and others.
• Promote admission avoidance and early discharge by effective liaison with internal and external stakeholders.

Job Details

Date posted: 05 January 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 6 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 350-CC7692128

Job locations: Litherland Town Hall, Hatton Hill Road, Sefton Place, L34 1PJ

Person Specification

Essential – Knowledge & Experience

• Significant experience of leadership & management
• Experience at Band 6 level in community nursing setting
• Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in community care /chronic disease management/long term conditions/palliative, end of life care
• Evidence of collaborative working with multiprofessional colleagues
• Evidence of effective communication across all levels of the organisation and with all stakeholders
• Awareness of current initiatives within the local & National health economy and of applicable guidelines, protocols, and frameworks
• Knowledge and experience of budget management
• Up to date knowledge of current Government and Local agendas and how these translate into local practice
• Evidence of providing professional/clinical leadership at postgraduate level
• Good working knowledge of the clinical governance agenda/National & Local priorities

Desirable – Knowledge & Experience

• Research & Development experience
• Experience of managing complaints

Essential – Skills

• Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding
• Ability to exercise critical thinking skills
• Ability to analyse data and present information to various audiences
• Ability to implement programmes or work streams leading to service changes
• Demonstrates up to date evidence based clinical knowledge in relation to community nursing
• Forward thinking able to identify opportunities for improvement in service development
• Motivated – able to motivate self and others to deliver a quality service
• Operational planning and delivery of care for complex caseloads including chronic disease management/Long term conditions/palliative care
• Computer literate – ability to use software programmes designed to maximise the contribution to the post
• Must have access to a vehicle & be able to commute to meet the demands of the role and remain flexible – to meet the demands of the service

Values

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Essential – Qualifications

• First level Registered Nurse
• Evidence of Post registration education in related areas
• Master's level study in relevant area of specialist nursing

Desirable – Qualifications

• Practice Teacher willingness to undertake
• Previous management course/qualification
• First level qualification in District Nursing / specialist Practitioners qualification in District Nursing
• Nurse Prescriber V150/300
• Master's degree

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Litherland Town Hall, Hatton Hill Road, Sefton Place, L34 1PJ

Website: https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/