Job summary
We are recruiting a Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Specialist Nurse to join the Sefton Community Diabetes Team.

The post holder will demonstrate a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge base across all aspects of diabetes management and promote excellence in nursing practice within a dynamic and evolving healthcare environment.

As a senior clinician within the service, the post holder will:

• Act as an expert practitioner, providing advanced, evidence-based assessment, treatment, and management for patients with complex diabetes needs.
• Provide clinical leadership, supporting the team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
• Contribute to specialist case management, ensuring personalised and coordinated care pathways for patients across community settings.
• Deliver direct patient care, offering expert education, self-management support, and clinical intervention to optimise patient outcomes.
• Support the development of clinical skills within the team, role-modelling professional standards and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.
• Promote safe, effective, and proactive diabetes care, working collaboratively across multidisciplinary and system-wide teams.
• Post holder must hold V300 qualification.

The service works in partnership with University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, providing applicants with opportunities for ongoing training, professional development, and skills enhancement, supporting career progression and delivery of high-quality diabetes care.

Main duties of the job
The successful post holder will provide a high-quality specialist diabetes service to patients across Southport, Formby, and South Sefton, working as part of an established and supportive multidisciplinary team.

The post holder will be expected to:

• Demonstrate a comprehensive and current knowledge base in diabetes management and champion excellence in nursing practice within a dynamic healthcare environment.
• Provide leadership and management support, undertaking defined leadership duties in the absence of the Team Leader.
• Exhibit excellent communication and leadership skills, using initiative, working autonomously, and leading the team effectively.
• Deliver specialist nursing care, undertake case management, and provide direct patient care for people with complex diabetes needs.
• Act as an expert practitioner--optimising patient health outcomes, promoting self-management, and supporting patients through complex clinical pathways.
• Undertake non-medical prescribing, initiating, adjusting, and reviewing diabetes-related treatments in line with evidence-based practice and local policies.
• Support the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred diabetes care in community settings.
• Provide expert education and clinical support to patients, families, and other healthcare professionals.
• Use prescribing authority to improve access to timely treatment, reduce delays in care, and enhance patient outcomes.
• Play an active role in service development and quality improvement initiatives.

About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the role requirements.

Person Specification
Skills
Essential

• IT literate.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to understand and analyse complex data
• Risk assessment skills
• Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
• Self-management and motivation skills
• Report writing skills
• Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
• Ability to travel to work across boundaries

Desirable

• Research skills

Experience
Essential

• Experience of management and clinical leadership
• Experience of successful multiagency working
• Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care
• Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy

Desirable

• Experience of delivering education and training programmes in specialist area

Qualifications
Essential

• Degree or equivalent qualification (evidence of study at degree level or higher)
• Appropriate prescriber (V300)
• Evidence of CPD/Short courses relevant to specialist area
• Registration with relevant professional body

Desirable

• Clinical Examination and Diagnostics (or working towards)
• First line management qualification

Knowledge
Essential

• Demonstrable post registration/qualification
• Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
• Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues

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.