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Job summary

Main area
Diabetes
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (per annum inclusive of HCAS)
Job ref
391-RFL-7196849
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Free Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£70,387 - £80,465 Per annum inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Band 8B Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse/Dietitian

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and dynamic Lead Diabetes Nurse or Dietitian to join our progressive and multidisciplinary Diabetes and Endocrinology teams. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated professional to take a leadership role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to people living with diabetes across our diverse North London population.

Main duties of the job

As the Nurse/Dietitian lead, you will be responsible for the coordination and development of specialist diabetes services across all RFL sites, providing expert clinical care, education, and support to patients, families, and healthcare professionals. You will play a key role in service innovation and quality improvement, working closely with consultants, GPs, primary care teams, and community partners to ensure seamless, evidence-based care across the patient pathway.

 

You will also provide mentorship and leadership to junior staff, contribute to the development of clinical guidelines, and lead on audits, research, and training initiatives. The successful candidate will be passionate about improving outcomes for people with diabetes and committed to reducing health inequalities within our local communities.

 

Join us at The Royal Free London, where you'll be part of a world-renowned Trust committed to clinical excellence, innovation, and the wellbeing of both patients and staff.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/ 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties:

  • To line manage and lead Diabetes nursing and dietitian services across the trust and to support integrated care teams with specialist advice
  • To enhance joint working between hospital and community to enable patients to access their care seamlessly close to home from diagnosis to lifelong management
  • To provide expert autonomous nursing care, advice and support to diabetes patients providing advanced assessment, complex clinical decision making, diagnosis and treatment including non-medical prescribing for patients referred
  • To manage patients appropriately through the specialist patient pathways supporting inpatient services, outpatient and telephone clinics and MDT review
  • To undertake nurse/dietitian led clinics and to be responsible for excellent standards of care to patients through the planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating clinics and services including complex Type 1 and 2 Diabetic patients, ante-natal, renal, foot, transition and initiation of pump therapy clinics
  • To take responsibility for own evidence based practice
  • To develop and work inside clear advance practice policies and evidence based guidelines to support the service
  • To lead the multi-disciplinary team, providing specialist education and advice to patients ensuring provision of NICE recommended structured education to support safe diabetes care and self-management programmes.
  • To assist in the development of standards of care for diabetes care across the trust with a specific focus on education and teaching for healthcare professionals and to act as an expert nursing resource
  • To provide formal training to other health care professionals on diabetes care across the trust and in primary care
  • To manage patients appropriately across the patient pathway ensuring an efficient and cost effective model to improve patient experience and lifelong management To work alongside the diabetes and endocrine leadership team in ensuring world class care standards, governance, education, training and support for service delivery across the whole diabetes pathway to meet local needs.
  • To act as a visible role model and expert practitioner, to provide line management and professional leadership to clinical nurse specialists within speciality
  • To support the advancement of nursing and dietitian practice.
  • To participate in and chair the trust-wide advanced practice specialist groups.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Registered General Nurse(NMC)/Dietitian (HCPC)
  • • Relevant first degree and working towards a master’s degree or evidence of ongoing relevant courses associated with Diabetes/ Endocrine
  • • Appropriate teaching certificate or extensive teaching experience (DAFNE)
  • • Evidence of professional/ management/ leadership development
  • • Non-medical prescribing qualification
Desirable criteria
  • • Advanced assessment qualification

Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to problem solve and prioritise work to deadlines
  • • Ability to establish collaborative working relationships with patients, carers and other members of the team
  • • Ability to reflect, question and evaluate own practice.
  • • To be flexible and approachable.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Deepa Patel
Job title
Diabetes Nurse Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
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