Children's Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist
The closing date is 30 October 2025
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Children's Diabetes CNS to join an established team dedicated to managing diabetes in children at Ipswich Hospital. You will provide specialist clinical advice and care to children and young people with diabetes.
We are looking for a confident innovative and experienced children's nurse who will be required to work within a multidisciplinary team providing support to acute services. You will need to be a good team player and be able to develop collaborative working relationships with other healthcare professionals, services and agencies.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for the provision of specialist children's diabetes service by acting autonomously to assess and treat own case load of patients.
Develop, facilitate and provide education of specialist knowledge for nursing, medical and paramedical staff through extensive knowledge of diabetes and its management.
The post holder will be an advocate for children and their families, promoting child focus family-centred care and act as a resource for health care professionals involved with these patients.
The post holder will support a specialist daily service to in-patients, providing expert nursing interventions, advice and support to children and families.
The post holder will support and participate in audit research and advancement of the Diabetes service, assisting with the development of specialist protocols and education package.
To work as part of the Paediatric Diabetes team to ensure that criteria for Best Practice Tariff (BPT) are met.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
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Details
Date posted
16 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
432-HR787-25
Job locations
Ipswich
Heath Road
Ipswich
IP4 5PD
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Ipswich
Heath Road
Ipswich
IP4 5PD
Employer's website
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