Health Care First Partnership

Diabetes Clinician

The closing date is 06 February 2026

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Job summary

A great opportunity to drive clinical excellence within an innovative NHS GP practice.

We are recruiting a Diabetes Clinician to work alongside our established team to provide high class clinical care to our patient population.

As a vital member of our team, you will play a pivotal role providing and delivering prescribed programmes of patient care.

Main duties of the job

The Diabetes Clinician will provide high-quality, patient-centered diabetes care for our patient population. The role is open to suitably qualified General Practitioners, Nurses, or Pharmacists with advanced diabetes expertise. The post holder will lead on the management of people with diabetes, including insulin initiation and titration, optimisation of therapies, and support for the wider practice team to improve diabetes outcomes in line with national and local guidelines.

About us

Health Care First Partnership (HCF) is a partnership formed by a group of high-quality practices: Dr Bance & Partners, Ferrybridge Medical Centre, Queen Street Surgery and FMC Health Solutions Limited (t/a Park View Surgery). We came together to deliver modern services that are high quality and will meet the needs of our patients into the future.

HCF is a General Practice Partnership open to all patients living within our practice boundary within Methley, Castleford, Ferrybridge, Airedale, Normanton and surrounding villages. We work in partnership with our patients and our Patient Forum to provide medical care for our patients.

We are a Personal Medical Services (PMS) practice offering Primary Care Services for the diagnosis and prevention of disease. We help patients to manage their health and prevent illness. Our GPs assess, diagnose, treat and manage illness. They carry out screening for some diseases and promote general health and wellbeing. Our GPs act as a patients advocate, supporting and representing a patients best interests to ensure they receive the best and most appropriate health and/or social care.

The Practice has a current list size of 30,000 patients and we are part of the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (formerly NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group).

Details

Date posted

21 January 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours

Reference number

A1815-26-0002

Job locations

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


Elizabeth Court Surgery

Elizabeth Drive

Castleford

West Yorkshire

WF10 3TG


Castleford Health Centre

Welbeck Street

Castleford

WF10 1HB


8-10

High Street

Knottingley

West Yorkshire

WF11 8NQ


Doctors Surgery

Queen Street

Normanton

West Yorkshire

WF6 2BU


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details about the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details about the role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience in insulin initiation and titration within a primary care or community setting.
  • Significant experience managing patients with diabetes in clinical practice.
  • Sound knowledge of current diabetes guidelines and best practice
  • Demonstrate an understanding of audit
  • Compiling procedures and clinical guidelines

Desirable

  • Relevant experience of working within a primary care or and community-based environment
  • Involvement in diabetes service development or quality improvement projects.

Skills and Qualities

Essential

  • Strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills.
  • Excellent communication skills with patients and healthcare professionals.
  • Ability to work autonomously while contributing effectively to a multidisciplinary team.
  • Commitment to patient-centered care and reducing health inequalities.
  • Competent IT skills, including use of clinical systems and data recording.
  • Punctual timekeeper and a positive role model
  • Ability to work core hours
  • Flexibility for cover
  • Ability to travel to meetings

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered healthcare professional as GP, Nurse, or Pharmacist with current professional registration (GMC / NMC / GPhC).
  • Diabetes Diploma (or equivalent recognised postgraduate diabetes qualification).

Desirable

  • Independent Prescribing qualification (for Nurses or Pharmacists).
  • Mentor/teaching qualification
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience in insulin initiation and titration within a primary care or community setting.
  • Significant experience managing patients with diabetes in clinical practice.
  • Sound knowledge of current diabetes guidelines and best practice
  • Demonstrate an understanding of audit
  • Compiling procedures and clinical guidelines

Desirable

  • Relevant experience of working within a primary care or and community-based environment
  • Involvement in diabetes service development or quality improvement projects.

Skills and Qualities

Essential

  • Strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills.
  • Excellent communication skills with patients and healthcare professionals.
  • Ability to work autonomously while contributing effectively to a multidisciplinary team.
  • Commitment to patient-centered care and reducing health inequalities.
  • Competent IT skills, including use of clinical systems and data recording.
  • Punctual timekeeper and a positive role model
  • Ability to work core hours
  • Flexibility for cover
  • Ability to travel to meetings

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered healthcare professional as GP, Nurse, or Pharmacist with current professional registration (GMC / NMC / GPhC).
  • Diabetes Diploma (or equivalent recognised postgraduate diabetes qualification).

Desirable

  • Independent Prescribing qualification (for Nurses or Pharmacists).
  • Mentor/teaching qualification

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).

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.

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

Health Care First Partnership

Address

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


Employer's website

https://www.healthcarefirst.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Health Care First Partnership

Address

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


Employer's website

https://www.healthcarefirst.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of People / Head of Clinical Services

Sarah Hiscoe / Nicola Lee

sarah.hiscoe@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

21 January 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours

Reference number

A1815-26-0002

Job locations

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


Elizabeth Court Surgery

Elizabeth Drive

Castleford

West Yorkshire

WF10 3TG


Castleford Health Centre

Welbeck Street

Castleford

WF10 1HB


8-10

High Street

Knottingley

West Yorkshire

WF11 8NQ


Doctors Surgery

Queen Street

Normanton

West Yorkshire

WF6 2BU


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