# Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- **Town:** Shrewsbury
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum / Pro Rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent: Monday to Friday 08.30-16.30
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 08.30-16.30 and part-time will be considered and base tbc as Madeley Health Centre or Mount McKinley, Shrewsbury)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-21T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-07T16:03:26.113Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Shropshire/Madeley_Shrewsbury/Shropshire_Community_Health_NHS_Trust/Adult_Community_Diabetes_Specialist_Service/Adult_Community_Diabetes_Specialist_Service-v8138890
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8138890?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.shropscommunityhealth.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Delivery of a comprehensive, skilled, and evidence-based Diabetes  service to meet the needs of the population. Providing leadership  skills, management, and development within the diabetes team.  Maintain a clinical caseload within your specialist field. Continuing  responsibility for assessment of health needs and development and  evaluation of standards of care.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

### Main duties of the job

To assess, plan and implement and evaluate evidence-based nursing care for people with complex needs for their Diabetes management. The post holder is required to provide expert clinical care for patients and to support other staff to develop their competencies in diabetes management. The post holder will be involved in teaching and training both formally to clinical staff and to patients.  The post holder will be required to work collaboratively across primary and community care, and link to other specialists within the acute setting to implement the integrated care pathway for people with diabetes. The post holder will lead on audit, Service Development and Quality  improvement work.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- Ability to meet travel requirements of the post

### Experience

**Essential**

- Post registration experience
- Diabetes nursing experience
- Assessing and prescribing care plans for patients with complex needs
- Experience of provision of training/education to range of staff and patients

### Knowledge and Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to communicate complex & distressing information to clients & their carers in a sensitive e & supportive way at a level they can understand
- Ability to manage complex caseload of high risk patients
- Ability to take initiative, work autonomously, make decisions and prioritise workload
- Advanced training & utilisation skills in therapeutic/diagnosis procedures & equipment relevant to diabetes
- Knowledge & understanding of safeguarding practice, policy an guidance including statutory frameworks
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to use counselling skills

### Training and Qualifacations

**Essential**

- Registered General Nurse
- Independent Nurse Prescriber
- Highly developed specialist knowledge achieved through First Level Degree or equivalent portfolio of evidence
- Recognised Diabetes Qualification
- Evidence of continual professional development and education
- Teaching Certificate or equivalent
- Willingness to undertake Masters level study/qualification

## Documents

- [privacy notice (pdf, 326.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2731)
- [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 75.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2730)
- [senior diabetes specialist nurse band 7 job description (pdf, 194.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10437278)

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