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Advanced Diabetes Specialist Nurse | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2025 |
| Location: | Brighton, BN2 3EW |
| Company: | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7172317/150-KB1694-CC |
Summary
We are seeking a passionate and experiencedAdvanced Diabetes Specialist Nurseto join Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver expert diabetes care across community settings, working closely with Adult Community Nursing Teams.
You will be responsible for undertaking regular patient assessments and reviews, facilitating multidisciplinary huddles, and providing clinical guidance to enhance the management of people living with diabetes. A key part of your role will involve close collaboration with hospital teams to ensure smooth transitions of care following discharge, promoting continuity and safe self-management for patients.
The successful candidate will coordinate care pathways, support complex medication management, and provide education to healthcare professionals, patients, and carers. We are looking for an autonomous practitioner with advanced diabetes knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to improving patient outcomes across the community.
If you are passionate about diabetes care and looking for a role that offers both challenge and reward, we would love to hear from you.
In this role, you will provide expert clinical leadership and act as a specialist resource to clinicians within Adult Community Nursing Teams, supporting the planning, development, and delivery of high-quality community diabetes services. You will work collaboratively with service users and partner agencies to improve and innovate diabetes care pathways.
Key responsibilities include contributing to service reviews, data collection for performance monitoring, and supporting service development in line with local and national commissioning priorities. The role involves undertaking clinical risk assessments, ensuring safe environments for patients and staff, and linking closely with secondary care teams to promote a whole-system approach to diabetes management.
You will lead on quality improvement initiatives, support clinical audits, and act on findings to enhance service delivery. You will supervise and appraise Band 6 and 7 nursing staff, ensure robust clinical governance processes are in place, and oversee effective management of referrals, including triage and urgent appointments.
Additionally, you will identify training needs and deliver ongoing education to healthcare professionals, maintain up-to-date knowledge of diabetes care developments, and contribute to strategic planning to continually improve patient outcomes and service effectiveness.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
This role offers the flexibility to work virtually, enabling you to deliver expert diabetes care and support to patients and teams across the community in a responsive and accessible way.
You will work autonomously, managing a caseload of patients requiring senior specialist diabetes intervention, maintaining contemporaneous patient records in line with legislation and policy. You will facilitate patient-centred education programmes, support efficient delivery of the Adult Community Nursing service, and contribute to service development in accordance with commissioner requirements.
Key responsibilities include supervising and appraising junior staff, delegating tasks appropriately, and assisting with recruitment, induction, and performance management processes. You will maintain specialist clinical competence through supervision, continuing professional development, and peer review. Where qualified, you will independently prescribe and review medication to optimise patient outcomes.
You will also contribute to policy development, support departmental audits, and assist in managing patient safety, complaints, and risk management issues. Acting as a clinical leader and change agent, you will influence the development of integrated community diabetes pathways, challenge non-evidence-based practices, and lead service innovation.
Through active participation in team meetings, national networking, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, you will disseminate specialist knowledge, provide support in complex clinical situations, and act as a role model to foster advanced practice in diabetes care.
This advert closes on Sunday 25 May 2025