# Diabetes Specialist Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Town:** Hull
- **Region:** North East and Yorkshire
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Secondment: 12 months (to cover maternity until July 2027)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 19 hours per week (may include weekend working)
- **Closing date:** 2026-06-19T08:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-06-05T11:51:47.526Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/hull/Hull_University_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Daibetes/Daibetes-v7962959
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7962959?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.hull.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

As the nurse specialist within the defined sphere of practice the post holder is responsible for providing specialist knowledge care to patients.

They will act as the first point of contact who have need to access the specialist service.

They will undertake a range of duties to ensure the effective delivery of care including undertaking specialist procedures, provide specialist advice, structured education and ongoing support to their client group, based on individual need.

### Main duties of the job

Responsible for patient care, safety and clinical quality, responsible for ensuring performance, and leading the team

responsible for ensuring knowledge, training and experience is kept up to date and ensure knowledge is imparted to others

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

We reserve the right to close the advert early in the event of high levels of interest. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.

We welcome applications from candidates who require Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK, and these will be considered alongside all other applications in line with our commitment to equality and inclusion.

Applicants can determine their potential eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship by reviewing the Skilled Worker Visa criteria set out by UKVI on the gov.uk website.

## Job Details

As the nurse specialist within the defined sphere of practice the post holder is responsible for providing specialist knowledge care to patients.

They will act as the first point of contact who have need to access the specialist service.

They will undertake a range of duties to ensure the effective delivery of care including undertaking specialist procedures, provide specialist advice, structured education and ongoing support to their client group, based on individual need.

## Job Description

Responsible for patient care, safety and clinical quality, responsible for ensuring performance, and leading the team

responsible for ensuring knowledge, training and experience is kept up to date and ensure knowledge is imparted to others

## Responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

We reserve the right to close the advert early in the event of high levels of interest. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.

We welcome applications from candidates who require Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK, and these will be considered alongside all other applications in line with our commitment to equality and inclusion.

Applicants can determine their potential eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship by reviewing the Skilled Worker Visa criteria set out by UKVI on the gov.uk website.

## Person Specification

### Other Requirements

**Essential**

- Good timekeeper
- Ability to work from both hospital sites as required to meet the demands of the service

### Application Completion

**Essential**

- ALL sections of application form FULLY completed

### Education/ Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse and/or First level degree or equivalent level of experience

**Desirable**

- Teaching qualification
- Nurse prescriber

### Special Attributes and other

**Essential**

- Shows motivation in developing new skills
- High level of interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate empathy and diplomacy
- Flexible and reliable
- Personal Integrity, credibility and assertive
- Approachable, adaptable, diplomacy
- Hard working and committed to the principles of public sector values

**Desirable**

- Ability to work flexibly and as a team
- Change agent
- Motivated
- Ability to self manage a caseload

### Knowledge, Training & Experience

**Essential**

- Professional awareness
- Effective communications skills
- Basic IT skills
- Leadership skills
- Analytical / problem solving
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- At least 2 years clinical nursing experience at Band 5 grade or above in an acute setting
- Standard setting and audit
- Within the past year have experience with the management and education of patients with diabetes
- Working alongside the multi disciplinary team
- Experience of leading and implementing change

**Desirable**

- Participating in training / post basic training
- Participation in research application
- Resource management
- Advanced ECDL in IT

### Communication and Interpersonal Skills

**Essential**

- Good communication - verbal/written
- Be able to work on own initiative
- Works well with in a team
- Demonstrates understanding of confidentiality
- Participate in standard setting and research projects
- Evidence showing clinical and professional development
- To be able to plan, assess, evaluate and implement patient care
- Ability to prioritise care associated with changing environment/patient demands
- Facilitate learning of others.

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 464.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10244456)
- [person specification (pdf, 464.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10244457)

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