Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse
The closing date is 21 July 2026

Job Summary
Delivery of a comprehensive, skilled, and evidence-based Diabetes service to meet the needs of the population. Providing leadership skills, management, and development within the diabetes team. Maintain a clinical caseload within your specialist field. Continuing responsibility for assessment of health needs and development and evaluation of standards of care.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main Duties of the Job
To assess, plan and implement and evaluate evidence-based nursing care for people with complex needs for their Diabetes management. The post holder is required to provide expert clinical care for patients and to support other staff to develop their competencies in diabetes management. The post holder will be involved in teaching and training both formally to clinical staff and to patients. The post holder will be required to work collaboratively across primary and community care, and link to other specialists within the acute setting to implement the integrated care pathway for people with diabetes. The post holder will lead on audit, Service Development and Quality improvement work.

About Us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Details
Date posted: 07 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Per Annum / Pro Rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 825-8050415-OPS-A
Job locations: Madeley Health Centre/ Mount McKinley Shrewsbury, Church Street/ Anchorage Avenue Shrewsbury Business Park, Madeley/ Shrewsbury, SY26FG, United Kingdom

Job Description
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential

• Registered General Nurse
• Independent Nurse Prescriber
• Highly developed specialist knowledge achieved through First Level Degree or equivalent portfolio of evidence
• Recognised Diabetes Qualification
• Evidence of continual professional development and education
• Teaching Certificate or equivalent
• Willingness to undertake Masters level study/qualification

Experience
Essential

• Post registration experience
• Diabetes nursing experience
• Assessing and prescribing care plans for patients with complex needs
• Experience of provision of training/education to range of staff and patients

Knowledge and Skills
Essential

• Ability to communicate complex & distressing information to clients & their carers in a sensitive e & supportive way at a level they can understand
• Ability to manage complex caseload of high risk patients
• Ability to take initiative, work autonomously, make decisions and prioritise workload
• Advanced training & utilisation skills in therapeutic/diagnosis procedures & equipment relevant to diabetes
• Knowledge & understanding of safeguarding practice, policy an guidance including statutory frameworks
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• Ability to use counselling skills

Other
Essential

• Ability to meet travel requirements of the post

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

Employer details
Employer name: Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Address: Madeley Health Centre/ Mount McKinley Shrewsbury, Church Street/ Anchorage Avenue Shrewsbury Business Park, Madeley/ Shrewsbury, SY26FG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.shropscommunityhealth.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Julia Morgan-Williams, Diabetes Specialist Nurse, julia.morgan-williams@nhs.net, 07812508886

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.