Job summary
Supporting High-Quality Diabetes Care Across the Community

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse with a passion for diabetes care to join our community-based specialist team. The role focuses on delivering expert assessment, treatment, education, and support to patients with diabetes, their families, and carers.

The successful candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team while exercising a high degree of professional autonomy in the management of patients with diabetes. They will contribute to the delivery of safe, effective, and patient-centred care, support service improvement activities, and work collaboratively with colleagues across Wiltshire to ensure consistently high standards of practice in line with local and national guidance.

Location: Amesbury Health Centre
Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Package Description
As a Diabetes Specialist Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Diabetes Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £39,959 - £48,117 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist diabetes nursing care to patients across community and primary care settings.
• Undertake complex clinical assessments, identifying physical, psychological, social, and cultural factors that may impact care.
• Initiate, review, and evaluate diabetes treatment plans in accordance with local and national guidance.
• Work autonomously while contributing effectively within a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Provide specialist advice, education, and support to patients, carers, and healthcare colleagues.
• Contribute to clinical governance, service development, audit, and quality improvement activities.
• Support the development of standards, protocols, and safe clinical practice across the service.
• Maintain high-quality clinical documentation and participate in team and professional network meetings.

Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Qualifications and Experience

• First Level Registered Nurse.
• Evidence of post-registration development in diabetes nursing.
• Significant post-registration experience within the speciality of diabetes.
• Experience supporting patients with diabetes in acute, community, or primary care settings.

Knowledge and Skills

• Current knowledge of diabetes care, NICE guidance, and evidence-based practice.
• Understanding of relevant NHS legislation and policy.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to interpret and analyse complex clinical information.
• Effective workload management and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to work independently and use professional judgement.
• Competent IT skills.

Desirable Criteria

• Degree or Diploma in a health-related subject.
• Independent Non-Medical Prescriber qualification.
• Experience undertaking clinical audits.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience delivering education to healthcare professionals and patients.
• Experience developing protocols and supporting service improvement.

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Questions About The Role?
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Beth Kelly, Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse, on 07885 467293 or via email at beth.kelly@hcrgcaregroup.com. We would be happy to hear from you.

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.

HCRG Care Group is committed to equal opportunities.