Job summary
HIOW Healthcare NHS Trust is looking for an inspirational registered nurse to work at Band 6 level as a Diabetes Senior Link Nurse working autonomously and as part of a team and to provide, and support to develop, a specialist service providing care to adults with diabetes within their own homes.

You will be responsible for delivering direct care, education and support to people with diabetes, their families and carers, and community nursing services in order to reduce hospital admissions and ensure people with diabetes continue to remain within their home environments. There will also be an opportunity to work towards creating an in-reach service to local acute hospital trusts in order to provide safe an effective discharge routes that enable patients to prepare for managing their diabetes in a community setting.

HIOWH Trust Community Nursing is much wider than the nursing team. We work alongside our colleagues within Social Care, our Internal Safeguarding Team, specialist services (both within HIOW Healthcare Trust and external providers) to ensure our patients are provided with the care they require. Working collaboratively enhances staff development but also ensures that our patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Your base will be at Oakley Road but you will work across the whole of Southampton. It is anticipated that this role will be within core hours of 0830 to 1630, Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist diabetes nursing service to housebound adults.
• Deliver direct patient care, education, and support to people with diabetes and their families, carers and to community nursing colleagues.
• Reduce hospital admissions by maintaining safe and effective care in the community setting.
• To reduce number of community nursing referrals for long term support with the administration of insulin, by supporting safe hospital discharge, developing an in-reach service to UHS to prepare insulin requiring pts on discharge, as appropriate.
• Provide education to healthcare professionals and non-registered healthcare professionals.
• To meet the needs of patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment. Care is based on comprehensive assessment, ensures continuity & is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive and evidence-based and which promotes independence.
• Responsible for co-ordinating the work of the team in regard to the diabetic patients on the caseload when required, influencing clinical decisions and monitoring the quality of patient care provided through utilising and maintaining expert clinical knowledge relevant to own field of practice, underpinned by theory and expertise.
• To participate in a quality improvement project on insulin delivery in the community and any further quality improvement/research which promotes quality and safety.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details
Date posted: 24 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Based on Full Time hours
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 348-SSW-12337
Job locations: Oakley Road, Millbrook, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 4GX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC.
• Practice assessor/supervisor.
• Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality.
• Teaching qualification e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Oakley Road, Millbrook, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 4GX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Hiring Manager: Sarah Stephens
sarah.stephens17@nhs.net
03001233943

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.