# Diabetes Specialist Nurse

**Company**: University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Children's Diabetes Team as a Band 6 Children's Diabetes Specialist Nurse on a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave. This is a 0.7 WTE position, ending on 5 November 2027.

The role offers the opportunity to work within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, providing specialist care and support to children and young people aged 0-19 years with diabetes across both inpatient and outpatient settings. Working closely with medical, dietetic and psychology colleagues, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, family-centred diabetes care and education.

**Main duties of the job**

- Deliver day-to-day care and management for a caseload of children and young people with diabetes, including those using hybrid closed-loop insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitoring systems and multiple daily injection therapies.

- Develop and maintain effective communication with children, young people, families and carers, providing information and support to enable informed decision-making regarding diabetes management.

- Provide specialist nursing support within multidisciplinary team clinics, nurse-led clinics and telephone consultations, as well as providing emergency telephone advice.

- Deliver diabetes education and training to children and young people, families, carers, school staff, student and ward-based nurses.

- Contribute to the ongoing development of paediatric diabetes services and support excellent clinical outcomes for patients and families.

**About us**

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year pro rata

- Flexible working opportunities

**Person Specification**

- Registered Nurse Child Branch

- First level registration with NMC

- Teaching/Assessment programme

- Minimum 2 years' relevant experience in paediatrics (Band 5 or above)

- Completed/completing first degree

- Demonstrates up-to-date knowledge and expertise in the specialty.

- Ability to work collaboratively and autonomously in a multidisciplinary environment

- Prioritises own workload

- Self-motivated and enthusiastic individual

- Teaching and education for parents and carers

- Demonstrates awareness of the importance of working in a multi-disciplinary team

- Communicates effectively verbally, in writing and in electronic formats

- Demonstrates evidence of up-to-date professional development

- Demonstrable ability to teach others

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## Skills

### Required
- diabetes care
- paediatric nursing
- multidisciplinary team work
- communication skills
- education and training

### Nice to have
- expertise in using diabetes technology

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