# (**) Registered Nurse - Diabetes Foot Care

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Southend University Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Registered nurse
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32073.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 19 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20T10:21:17.291Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8254416
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8254416?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.southend.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are currently looking for a bright, hardworking nurse to join our energetic and supportive team in the Diabetic Foot Service and we would love to hear from you.

You will be responsible for providing and maintaining a high standard of patient care, experience, and quality service at all times, prepared to work across the MSE sites according to the needs of the service. Shifts are planned in accordance with provision of service and work towards a seven-day working week.

You will support nurse specialists, podiatrists and consultant colleagues in appropriate out-patient clinics/ward visits, provide routine clinical care, including wound care for patients with diabetic foot disease and ensure clinic rooms are cleaned, stock and prepared for wound management/interventions.

If this sounds like the right role for you, please apply today.

### Main duties of the job

As part of the team, you will provide and maintain the highest possible standard of nursing care for the patients, ensuring that a welcoming, caring and safe environment is provided, supporting consultants, surgeons, podiatrists, & diabetes foot care sister in the diabetic foot service whilst ensuring the safety of patients at all times and reporting all accidents or incidents promptly to the Matron/Sister, identify any safety issues.

You will assist with the provision of an environment conducive to the education of all staff, supervising other members of the nursing team as appropriate, and participate in the orientation, induction and ongoing training of new staff ensuring due regard is given to customs, values and spiritual beliefs of all users of the service and maintaining an awareness of professional developments and nursing research and apply this knowledge into practice.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting Staff Nurse role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role. Whilst we are able to employ candidates on a graduate Visa, we are unable to offer sponsorship once the graduate visa expires

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Good level of written communication skills demonstrated through application form

### Experience

**Essential**

- Evidence of post registration experience in an NHS setting

**Desirable**

- Previous NHS experience of working in an acute care environment and performing competencies at an advanced level.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- NMC registration

**Desirable**

- Wound Care Management qualification
- Diabetes Care qualification

## Documents

- [privacy policy (pdf, 441.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2077)
- [afc pay poster 26/27 (pdf, 44.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2504)
- [trust 10 year strategy (pdf, 2.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2947)
- [general statements afc - v5.2 (pdf, 592.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2979)
- [leadership and management framework (pdf, 120.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2880)
- [staff nurse - dom- diabetes foot care - ba - b5 (pdf, 264.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10707341)

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