Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Shrewsbury, SY2 6FG
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
15 September 2026
13 days left
Job description
Delivery of a comprehensive, skilled, and evidence-based Diabetesservice to meet the needs of the population. Providing leadershipskills, management, ...
To assess, plan and implement and evaluate evidence-based nursing care for people with complex needs for their Diabetes management. The post holder is required to provide expert clinical care for patients and to support other staff to develop their competencies in diabetes management. The post holder will be involved in teaching and training both formally to clinical staff and to patients.The post holder will be required to work collaboratively across primary and community care, and link to other specialists within the acute setting to implement the integrated care pathway for people with diabetes. The post holder will lead on audit, Service Development and Qualityimprovement work.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Training and Qualifacations
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Independent Nurse Prescriber
- Highly developed specialist knowledge achieved through First Level Degree or equivalent portfolio of evidence
- Recognised Diabetes Qualification
- Evidence of continual professional development and education
- Teaching Certificate or equivalent
- Willingness to undertake Masters level study/qualification
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience
- Diabetes nursing experience
- Assessing and prescribing care plans for patients with complex needs
- Experience of provision of training/education to range of staff and patients
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex & distressing information to clients & their carers in a sensitive e & supportive way at a level they can understand
- Ability to manage complex caseload of high risk patients
- Ability to take initiative, work autonomously, make decisions and prioritise workload
- Advanced training & utilisation skills in therapeutic/diagnosis procedures & equipment relevant to diabetes
- Knowledge & understanding of safeguarding practice, policy an guidance including statutory frameworks
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to use counselling skills
Other
Essential
- Ability to meet travel requirements of the post
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
1 September 2026
Last checked
2 September 2026
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