Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Diabetes Specialist Nurse

The closing date is 10 March 2026

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Job summary

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

The post holder will be required to demonstrate a comprehensive and current knowledge base in 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 health 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.

This role is integral to supporting patients with both stable and complex diabetes needs, ensuring care is accessible, responsive, and aligned with best practice standards.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will provide a high-quality specialist diabetes service to patients acrossSouthport, 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, promoting self-management, and supporting patients through complex clinical pathways.
  • Work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, utilising an integrated approach to care delivery.
  • Contribute to ongoing service integration and transformation across the Sefton diabetes pathway.

The Specialist Diabetes Nurse will:

  • Support high-quality, patient-centred diabetes care in community settings.
  • Provide expert education and clinical support to patients, families, and other healthcare professionals.
  • Promote safe, effective, and evidence-based practice.
  • 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.

Details

Date posted

26 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

350-CC7829794

Job locations

Sefton Diabetes service

Hatton Hill Road Litherland

Liverpool

L21 9JN


Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Job description

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
  • 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

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in specialist area
  • 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 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
  • Understanding how other agencies work
  • 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) or enrolled on course and due to complete
  • Evidence of CPD/Short courses
  • Registration with relevant professional body

Desirable

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

Values

Essential

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet
Person Specification

Skills

Essential

  • IT literate.
  • Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
  • Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
  • 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

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in specialist area
  • 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 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
  • Understanding how other agencies work
  • 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) or enrolled on course and due to complete
  • Evidence of CPD/Short courses
  • Registration with relevant professional body

Desirable

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

Values

Essential

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet

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

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sefton Diabetes service

Hatton Hill Road Litherland

Liverpool

L21 9JN


Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sefton Diabetes service

Hatton Hill Road Litherland

Liverpool

L21 9JN


Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Operational Manager

Emma Evans

emma.evans2@merseycare.nhs.uk

07901269223

Details

Date posted

26 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

350-CC7829794

Job locations

Sefton Diabetes service

Hatton Hill Road Litherland

Liverpool

L21 9JN


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