Community Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

We are seeking a motivated and clinically confident Community Diabetes Nurse Specialist to join our community nursing service. This role sits at the heart of our home‑visiting team, supporting housebound patients with complex diabetes needs and providing expert clinical leadership to colleagues. You will act as a senior clinician within the service, using advanced assessment skills, sound clinical judgement and specialist diabetes knowledge to guide care planning, adjust prescriptions and reduce unnecessary visits where appropriate.

You will oversee the quality of care delivered by your team, triaging referrals, coordinating caseloads and ensuring staff are working to the right level of competency. As a visible clinical leader, you will support and develop colleagues, role‑model best practice and help maintain a confident workforce. You will also contribute to service improvement, working closely with Primary Care Networks and the wider MDT to ensure joined‑up, patient‑centred care for the local population.

This is an excellent opportunity for nurses with a strong interest in diabetes who are undertaking or already hold the NMP qualification and are seeking a developmental Band 6/7 pathway.

Main duties of the job

You will provide advanced clinical assessment and management for patients with complex diabetes in their own homes, ensuring safe, effective and holistic care. You will support community nursing teams by reviewing and adjusting diabetes treatment plans, offering expert advice and helping reduce avoidable hospital admissions. Your role includes teaching and supporting staff—formally and informally—across key areas such as insulin management, EOL care, IV therapy and wider community nursing competencies.

You will ensure safe staffing, oversee team performance, manage incidents and complaints, and maintain high standards of clinical governance. Daily activities may include identifying quality improvement projects, presenting proposals to senior leaders, managing budgets, ensuring supervision frameworks are in place and providing hands‑on clinical support when needed.

As a clinical expert and role model, you will help shape a high‑performing, compassionate service focused on patient safety, experience and independence. Candidates should be willing to undertake postgraduate diabetes training if not already completed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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