# Clinical Nurse Specialist – Diabetes

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-26T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08T09:03:19.410Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/University_College_London_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Children_Young_People/Children_Young_People-v8116722
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8116722?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uclh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The University College London Hospitals NHS Trust Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes Service

Our multidisciplinary diabetes team provides a service for Children and Young People (CYP) aged 0-19 years, incoprorating specific paediatric, adolescent and young adult clincs. Our current service has an excellent reputation, with some of the best clinical and patient reported outcomes nationally. We have a large catchment across London and Southeast England where patients/families have chosen to transfer their care to us.

We are looking for a Band 7 (1.0 WTE) Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our existing team.

### Main duties of the job

We require a Paediatric Nurse with proven experience in delivering paediatric and adolescent diabetes care, including at least one year working as a paediatric diabetes specialist nurse at Band 6 level. You will be enthusiastic about improving standards of diabetes care; have experience of supporting CYP with diabetes technology including Hybrid Closed Loop pumps; have excellent communication skills and an ability to work both autonomously and in collaboration with other professionals.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.

To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant post registration experience nursing children and young people e.g. experience working on a children’s ward
- Experience working as a specialist diabetes nurse (minimum one year at band 6 level)
- Leadership and management experience
- Demonstrates expertise in using diabetes technology
- Experience of working with a diverse multidisciplinary team

### Communication

**Essential**

- Communication Ability to communicate effectively with different disciplines within an MDT
- Communicates effectively verbally, in writing and in electronic formats
- Presentation skills

### Skills and Abilities

**Essential**

- Ability to work collaboratively and autonomously in a multidisciplinary environment.
- Ability to manage a patient caseload
- Prioritises own workload
- Ability to lead and coordinate others to deliver care
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic individual

### Knowledge and Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse Child Branch
- First level registration with NMC
- Teaching/Assessment programme
- Educated to degree level or equivalent

**Desirable**

- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Completed/completing Master’s Degree/ module with specific diabetes component

### Personal and People Development

**Essential**

- Demonstrates evidence of up-to-date professional development
- Experience as a preceptor/ facilitator/ mentor
- Demonstrable ability to teach others

### Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion

**Essential**

- Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion

## Documents

- [uclh values (pdf, 860.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2685)
- [job description (pdf, 896.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10412437)
- [functional requirements (pdf, 262.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10412438)

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