Job summary
Join Our Endocrinology Team as a Lead Clinical Nurse
Are you passionate about delivering exceptional, patient-centred care? We're seeking an experienced nurse to provide clinical leadership in our innovative Endocrinology service.
Your Role:
- Lead high-quality care for patients with complex endocrine conditions
- Support and mentor the endocrine nursing team, fostering professional growth
- Help shape and expand endocrine services across the trust
- Provide specialist advice to multidisciplinary teams for assessment, planning, and care
- Act as a key resource for patients, families, and healthcare professionals in primary and secondary care
- Lead nurse-led clinics, inpatient consults, education, service development, and audits
What We're Looking For:
- Experienced nurse with a passion for endocrinology and advocacy
- Proactive, innovative, committed to improvement
- Potential to develop into a Band 7 role within 12-18 months, with a clear development plan
Why Join Us?This is more than a job -- it's an opportunity to grow professionally, influence services, and improve patient outcomes. Ready to make a difference? Apply now and join a compassionate, forward-thinking team dedicated to excellence.
Main duties of the job
Become a Key Leader in Endocrine Care - Join Us as a Specialist Endocrine Nurse
Are you ready to elevate your nursing career? We're seeking a skilled, passionate nurse to deliver autonomous, specialist endocrine care that makes a real difference.
What You'll Do:
- Provide expert endocrine care via nurse-led clinics, treatment planning, and inpatient support, ensuring personalized, compassionate care
- Act as the key worker for complex endocrine patients--delivering tailored education, support, and guidance
- Lead endocrine testing, interpret results, prescribe treatments, and collaborate with GPs and multidisciplinary teams to optimize outcomes
- Develop and enhance endocrine services, supervise and mentor junior staff and students
- Deliver specialist education to patients, carers, and professionals, empowering them with knowledge
- Communicate sensitively with patients and families, supporting informed decisions and building trust
- Maintain accurate records, lead audits, and support quality improvement initiatives
- Promote evidence-based practice, participate in governance, and manage resources effectively
- Drive continuous learning and innovation to keep our endocrine services at the forefront of excellence
Why Join Us?This is more than a role -- it's an opportunity to shape the future of endocrine care, develop leadership skills, and work within a supportive, forward-thinking team committed to clinical excellence.
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- First level degree in nursing related subject or undertaking a degree pathway
- Post basic qualification in speciality
- Recognised teaching qualification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Registered Nurse with current NMC Pin
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience working at a senior level with experience in endocrinology
- Knowledge and experience in endocrinology
- Experience of multiprofessional working
- Experience of teaching
- Experience of good communication skills
- Ability to support and influence change
- Demonstrate specialist expertise in endocrine conditions
- Evidence of organisation and leadership skills
- Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and clinical audit
- Evidence of pro-active involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
- Demonstrates effective communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to work autonomously and part of a team
- Diplomatic, calm and objective
Desirable
- IT literacy
- Leadership and management experience
- Experience of audit and research
- Experience of writing policies and developing guidelines
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Desirable
- Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- First level degree in nursing related subject or undertaking a degree pathway
- Post basic qualification in speciality
- Recognised teaching qualification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Registered Nurse with current NMC Pin
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience working at a senior level with experience in endocrinology
- Knowledge and experience in endocrinology
- Experience of multiprofessional working
- Experience of teaching
- Experience of good communication skills
- Ability to support and influence change
- Demonstrate specialist expertise in endocrine conditions
- Evidence of organisation and leadership skills
- Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and clinical audit
- Evidence of pro-active involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
- Demonstrates effective communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to work autonomously and part of a team
- Diplomatic, calm and objective
Desirable
- IT literacy
- Leadership and management experience
- Experience of audit and research
- Experience of writing policies and developing guidelines
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Desirable
- Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes
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.
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).
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.
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).