# Community Diabetes Nurse Specialist

**Company**: Central London Community Health Trust
**Location**: Edgware
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £55,524 to £62,652 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Diabetes Nurse Specialist (Band 7) to join our multidisciplinary Diabetes Service.

Working autonomously, you will provide specialist diabetes care for patients with complex needs, including referral triage, clinical assessment, treatment optimisation, and home visits for housebound patients. You will work closely with primary care, acute services, and community teams to improve patient outcomes and promote evidence-based practice.

The role also involves providing education and support to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals, whilst contributing to service development and supporting colleagues within the team.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Diabetes Nurse looking to develop their specialist practice within a supportive and progressive service. Independent Nurse Prescribing is desirable but not essential.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide specialist diabetes care to patients with complex or poorly controlled diabetes across community and primary care settings.

- Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised care plans to improve diabetes management and patient outcomes.

- Initiate, monitor and adjust diabetes treatments, including insulin and GLP-1 therapies, in line with national guidelines.

- Educate and empower patients, families and carers to manage diabetes effectively and prevent complications.

- Work collaboratively with GPs, practice nurses and multidisciplinary teams to deliver coordinated, high-quality care.

- Provide specialist clinical advice, training and mentorship to healthcare professionals across primary, community and secondary care.

- Support the delivery of structured diabetes education programmes, including DESMOND.

- Lead and contribute to clinical audits, service evaluations and quality improvement initiatives to enhance diabetes services.

- Develop and implement initiatives to improve diabetes management, promote health and reduce complications.

- Maintain accurate clinical records and ensure compliance with evidence-based guidelines and Trust policies.

- Contribute to health promotion, patient education and ongoing service development.

**Benefits**

We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.

**Requirements**

- Registered Nurse on Part 1 of the NMC

- First Degree or equivalent experience

- ENB 928 and 998 or equivalent level of knowledge

- Masters or evidence of working towards

- Evidence of CPD with particular relevance to diabetes

- Non-Medical Prescribing or working towards

- Post qualification experience

- Previous extensive experience in Diabetes

- Knowledge of relevant strategies for diabetes and nursing care

- Working as member of a multi-disciplinary team

- Experience of mentoring & supervising staff

- Management of change

- Working across organisational boundaries

- Has initiated or been involved in research & audit

- Experience of networking

- Computer Skills

## Skills

### Required
- Diabetes care
- Clinical assessment
- Treatment optimisation
- Patient education
- Multidisciplinary team work
- Nurse prescribing
- DESMOND
- Clinical audits
- Service evaluations
- Quality improvement initiatives

### Nice to have
- Independent Nurse Prescribing
- Community Nursing qualification
- Recognised Management qualification

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