Clinical Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job description

Job summary

Bring your specialist expertise and leadership to the Inner London Diabetes Service. This is an opportunity to shape high-quality care for people living with diabetes across Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster, and Kensington & Chelsea.

As Clinical Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse, you will provide senior clinical and professional leadership, offer expert advice on complex diabetes care, and help develop safe, effective, evidence-based and patient-centred services.

Working alongside multidisciplinary teams, primary and secondary care colleagues and wider system partners, you will turn collaborative working into meaningful service improvement. From integrated care pathways and clinical standards to workforce development, your leadership will help the service respond to the changing needs of people living with diabetes.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will:

• Lead with expertise - Provide senior clinical and professional leadership across the Inner London Diabetes Service.

• Guide complex care - Act as a source of expert diabetes advice and support clinical decision-making.

• Shape clinical practice - Lead and support the development of evidence-based practice, pathways and standards.

• Drive improvement - Champion quality improvement, service innovation and transformation.

• Connect care across services - Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, primary and secondary care colleagues and wider system partners to support integrated, patient-centred care.

• Keep patients at the centre - Promote improvements in clinical outcomes and patient experience.

• Support and inspire the workforce - Provide professional leadership and support to specialist diabetes nurses.

• Develop people and uphold standards - Contribute to education, supervision, workforce development and clinical governance.

• Help the service evolve. Support continued development in line with national guidance, best practice and local population needs.

About us

We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.

What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life's most important moments.

Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding the role, responsibilities and essential criteria.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding the role, responsibilities and essential criteria.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

• Registered Nurse - current NMC registration
• Evidence of on-going and recent post-registration training and education at master's level.
• Evidence of professional updating and further education in diabetes.
• Leadership training or qualifications
• Independent Nurse Prescriber (or on pathway to complete)

Experience

Essential

• Extensive post registration clinical experience at a senior level.
• Experience as diabetes specialist nurse
• Experience in managing, auditing, and evaluating clinical nursing services.
• Experience of initiating and implementing changes to services
• Experience of working collaboratively with a variety of agencies
• Evidence of innovation in practice.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Has the necessary clinical skills required for the post.
• Basic IT skills including use of Microsoft Office package and email
• Resourceful and able to affect change through leadership and influence.
• Knowledge of evidence based for management of diabetes
• Knowledge of current NHS organisational structure and policy initiatives.
• Knowledge of implementing and monitoring service outcome measures.
• Knowledge of research process and application to practice.

Person Specification
Education/Qualification

Essential

• Registered Nurse - current NMC registration
• Evidence of on-going and recent post-registration training and education at master's level.
• Evidence of professional updating and further education in diabetes.
• Leadership training or qualifications
• Independent Nurse Prescriber (or on pathway to complete)

Experience

Essential

• Extensive post registration clinical experience at a senior level.
• Experience as diabetes specialist nurse
• Experience in managing, auditing, and evaluating clinical nursing services.
• Experience of initiating and implementing changes to services
• Experience of working collaboratively with a variety of agencies
• Evidence of innovation in practice.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Has the necessary clinical skills required for the post.
• Basic IT skills including use of Microsoft Office package and email
• Resourceful and able to affect change through leadership and influence.
• Knowledge of evidence based for management of diabetes
• Knowledge of current NHS organisational structure and policy initiatives.
• Knowledge of implementing and monitoring service outcome measures.
• Knowledge of research process and application to practice.

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

Additional information
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

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust
Address

Lisson Grove

London

NW8 8EG

United Kingdom

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