Job summary
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.
About us
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/
Job description
Job 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.
Job description
Job 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
- oRegistered General Nurse(NMC)/Dietitian (HCPC)
- oRelevant first degree and working towards a master's degree or evidence of ongoing relevant courses associated with Diabetes/ Endocrine
- oAppropriate teaching certificate or extensive teaching experience (DAFNE)
- oEvidence of professional/ management/ leadership development
- oNon-medical prescribing qualification
Desirable
- oAdvanced assessment qualification
Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential
- oAbility to problem solve and prioritise work to deadlines
- oAbility to establish collaborative working relationships with patients, carers and other members of the team
- oAbility to reflect, question and evaluate own practice.
- oTo be flexible and approachable.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oRegistered General Nurse(NMC)/Dietitian (HCPC)
- oRelevant first degree and working towards a master's degree or evidence of ongoing relevant courses associated with Diabetes/ Endocrine
- oAppropriate teaching certificate or extensive teaching experience (DAFNE)
- oEvidence of professional/ management/ leadership development
- oNon-medical prescribing qualification
Desirable
- oAdvanced assessment qualification
Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential
- oAbility to problem solve and prioritise work to deadlines
- oAbility to establish collaborative working relationships with patients, carers and other members of the team
- oAbility to reflect, question and evaluate own practice.
- oTo be flexible and approachable.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
