Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse - Team Lead

Job overview

Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse – Team Lead Location: Brent & Harrow Diabetes Service Contract: Permanent | Salary: Band 7

Are you an experienced diabetes nurse and Prescriber ready for a new challenge? If Yes

We’re looking for a motivated, forward-thinking Community Diabetes Specialist Lead Nurse to join our friendly community diabetes team in Brent and Harrow.

You’ll lead and support nurses, allied health professionals, and lay educators to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate diabetes care closer to home. The role combines leadership and clinical practice, involving oversight of day-to-day service operations, supervision, and quality improvement.

If you’re passionate about improving outcomes, developing others, and driving innovation in community diabetes care, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and help shape the future of community diabetes services.

Main duties of the job

This is a broad summary of the role detailing key areas of operation and responsibilities – further detail will be provided in the Main Duties and Responsibilities section, below, which provides more granular detail.

• To be responsible for the operational management and day to day running of the community diabetes service within an identified locality within the ICB.
• To work jointly with the diabetes leadership team across Brent and Harrow in ensuring the service meets trust and commissioner set key performance indicators and standards.
• The post holder is expected be an experienced diabetes specialist nurse, aware of the full scope of clinical practice and expected to support and supervise colleagues and team members.
• To be a key member of the multidisciplinary Community Diabetes Service to plan and deliver high quality integrated diabetes care in the community.
• To ensure efficient and cost-effective processes and ways of working are in place.
• To oversee the line management and coordination of supervision and rotations to ensure these are being undertaken appropriately.
• You will be expected to carry at least a 60% clinical caseload and will be supported with a job plan.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.