Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	30 May 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£61,927 - £68,676 per annum incl. HCAS
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	29 June 2025
Location:	London, NW1 0PE
Company:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7241561/333-G-CC-1456

Summary

In collaboration with Nurse Consultant in Diabetes and in partnership with the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will support leading and developing the provision of a community diabetes specialist service, delivering high quality clinical care. The post holder will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the diabetes specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers. They will practice autonomously within diabetes to provide patient centred quality care. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice. They will ensure safe treatment, referral, follow up and discharge of patients within diabetes. They will act as a specialist resource and provide specialist advice in relation to care of patients in their speciality. The post holder will provide a range of educational and training programmes for the multidisciplinary team, patients, families and carers

They will have managerial responsibility for a defined Clinical Diabetes Specialists, leading the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.

The post holder’s job plan should deliver a minimum of 80% clinical component and 20% related to service management, education & research

· The will be responsible for the organisation and management of a defined specialist nursing service/s or the professional leadership and management of a defined group/s of Clinical Specialists.

· Provide expert advice to a cohort of patients referred for specialist intervention, care and support within the services, being a point of contact for assessment, information and advice for the patient, family and carers and all staff involved in the care the patients

· To provide a clear focus for clinical leadership and to be responsible for ensuring the provision of a high standard of holistic, patient-centred care supporting the development of staff caring for patients through support formal education and training, practice development and role modelling.

· Use a range of techniques to ensure set and monitor standards of clinical practice, audit, research and teaching to set monitor and continually improve standards of care and patient experience.

· Lead on diabetes practice development including the development, and or updating of clinical guidelines, policy and procedure that relates to the practice setting,service development and contribute to strategic planning

· To teach and act as a facilitator, mentor and supervisor to other staff.

· Ensure effective delivery of organisational objectivesand effective use of resources, managing a budget/s



There’s a place for you at CNWL.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverserange of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

CLINICAL

· Provide a specialist nursing community service and advice in a variety of clinical settings and disciplines for staff, patients, their families and careers, effectively liaising with multidisciplinary colleagues.

· Contribute to the co-ordination of care between primary and secondary care diabetes services to ensure high quality of patient care and the continuity of services across both Trusts

· Develop and run multidisciplinary clinics, participate in MDT, patient reviews and including triage

· Work autonomously as an expert practitioner within the specialty, managing a caseload of patients delivering individualised direct patient care

· Utilise advanced clinical assessment skills to conduct in depth patient assessment and history taking, plan and provide support in the implementation of clinical management plans.

· Undertake a variety of clinical skills and provide treatment, non-medical prescribing or advice as per speciality and scope of practice. Using agreed protocols of clinical practice and professional guidelines. This service may be provided within primary, community or home care settings.

· Utilise advanced knowledge and skills relating to the speciality to provide specialist advice to other members of the multidisciplinary team on the basis of patient assessment.

· Provide a seamless, high quality service from referral through to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and review, referring to other specialists as required. Provide guidance to staff, patients and their families and carers on pathway navigation

· Lead in the development and updating of referral guidelines and policies for the service.

· Use highly developed communication skills to effectively communicate with colleagues, patients and their relatives/carers, making reports and liaising as required with medical staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team both verbally and in writing.

· Lead and ensure active engagement of service users through patient and family feedback, user groups and support groups, report and raise any concerns relating to safeguarding.

· Monitor the quality and standard of care provided by all members of the team and all staff in clinical area, including documentation. Identifying any skills or training gaps and escalating to the Nurse Consultant

· Undertake training to develop further advanced clinical practice roles required by the service in order to provide a high standard of patient care.

PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT

· Provide highly visible and accessible professional leadership and demonstrate expert knowledge and standards of clinical practice

· Lead a defined service or group, promoting interdisciplinary team and collaborative working practices

· Act as a point of contact to the Trust on nursing within the specialist field of practice

· Meet regularly with team members as a team and on an individual basis as required to support their personal and professional development

· In absence of Nurse Consultant, Participate in directorate management meetings, including service planning, budget setting and demand & capacity work

· Lead and support the development of the role according to changing patient’s needs, service requirements and evidence base practice.

· Ensure that all resources are managed in an efficient and cost-effective manner to achieve maximum effect for patients and staff.

· Demonstrate effective leadership skills, supporting the Nurse Consultant and LTC head in service development and lead as delegated on the implementation of any of these changes.

· Utilise the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills when dealing with complex, sensitive or emergency situations.

· Lead in the recruitment and selection of staff.

· Responsibility for completing or delegating the preparation and daily review of staff duty rotas, ensuring that the team provides most effective service provision.

· Cover in absence of Nurse Consultant delegated budgetary management of the team

· Ensure the team has adequate resources to provide efficient services. Participate in business planning and business case development to support increased resource requirements with associated directorate and divisional management teams

QUALITY & SAFETY

· Maintain improvements in patient safety by supporting implementation of patient safety initiatives, prompt and appropriate response to complaints resolution and escalation where appropriate

· Ensure patient safety by escalating any risks with nurse staffing or service provision to directorate management team and reporting any issues

MANAGEMENT , SUPERVISORY, TEACHING, TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES

· Act as an expert specialist educational resource for clinical staff, patients, and carers by providing formal and informal education. Promote and develop a positive learning environment throughout the Trust.

· Act as mentor/ assessor to staff members and students as required, providing educational advice and support. Ensure staff can access appropriate training support and guidance.

· Lead and actively participate in the delivery of educational programmes for all grades of nursing, medical and allied health professional staff, including students

· Lead on the identification and provision of in-service training need for all team staff.

· Participate in education and practice development on a Trust wide basis liaising with Trust wide educational leads as well as primary care/community teams.

· Take responsibility for ensuring personal and team attendance and completion of any statutory or mandatory training as required for. Informing line manager if there is any deviance from training attendance

· Lead the annual appraisal process, delegating duties to team members as appropriate to ensure all staff within the team have personal development plans which support revalidation

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

· Where required lead or assist in research projects as required, disseminating and ensuring utilisation of research results to change practice.

· Utilise research findings in the delivery of specialist patient care, developing new ways of working.

· Be aware of research /trails being undertaken within the specialist field of practice

· Lead audit projects as required by the specialty, involving collating, analysing and reporting on results of the audit process.

· Provide support, encouragement and advice to nursing staff undertaking audit and research.








This advert closes on Friday 20 Jun 2025

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