Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Diabetes specialist nurse plays a crucial leadership role in diabetes care, balancing expertise with management and service development responsibilities. Main duties are providing a high quality care diabetes service, providing specialist care and treatment programmes for patients , families and carers. Assessing plans and evaluating effectivnessof diabetes programmes provided by the nursing team to ensure high standard.

Responsible for the day to day leadership of the specialist nurses and facilitating the development of the specialist nursing service. Ensuring that they are receiving high quality diabetic care as well as ensuring that their medications are appropriate and patient centred to achieve good outcomes and reduce long term effects of diabetes.

Supporting patients with the available technology eg CGM, Flash glucose monitoring and insulin pumps.

Empowering patients to take control of their diabetes and promote self management. Influencing

practice and partnership working across primary and secondary care.

Job responsibilities

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

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From April 9th 2025 - Healthcare assistants - You must have been employed for a minimum of two years of as a HCA within the NHS for the Trust to consider sponsorship (we will only consider sponsorship if you meet this criteria and have a current visa expiring within 3 months).