Senior Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job Overview

Band 7 Senior Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse

37.5 hours per week | 12-month Fixed Term Contract

Are you a passionate and forward-thinking nurse looking to make a real difference to children and young people living with diabetes? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Our paediatric diabetes service is growing from strength to strength, driven by a supportive and ambitious multidisciplinary team committed to transforming the way we deliver care. We are looking for a dynamic, motivated individual who enjoys thinking creatively and is eager to help shape innovative, accessible services for our patients and families.

As a Senior Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse, you will play a key role within our dedicated MDT, bringing fresh ideas and enthusiasm to support continued service development and high-quality patient care.

We are seeking a nurse with a genuine passion for diabetes care and improving outcomes for children and young people. In return, we offer a comprehensive development pathway, including support to undertake specialist training that will further enhance your skills and professional growth.

You will receive ongoing support and mentorship within a welcoming cross-site nursing team, led by an experienced Matron. Although primarily based at Frimley Park Hospital, you will be part of a wider collaborative service, providing excellent opportunities to learn, develop, and broaden your experience.

Join us and help shape the future of paediatric diabetes care.

Main duties of the job

• To take the leading role in the advanced assessment, treatment, and management of children with diabetes within inpatients and outpatients.
• To act as a clinical lead for the Paediatric diabetes services
• To review and educate all children and young people
• To develop comprehensive care plans for CYP
• To be highly skilled in the advanced clinical assessment and advanced management of CYP with diabetes

To provide advanced information, education, advice, and support to the CYP, parents, ward staff and schools.

Working in a demanding environment, the successful applicant will be required to:

Lead on a designated clinic and independently manage a case load of CYPs.

Use excellent communication skills.

Have advanced and extensive knowledge and clinical skills to manage CYP with diabetes, aetiology, and treatment.

Have experience of working autonomously and as a member of the nursing team/MDT

Be confident and competent in their role and have a willingness to develop their skills.

Have excellent organisational, prioritisation and problem-solving skills.

Have the experience and expertise of supporting and teaching ward staff, families, and other professionals such as schools

Have the ability to work flexibly and manage change in a positive and effective way.

Demonstrate resilience with a fast paced and unpredictable workload.

Lead in quality improvement projects involving audits

Manage junior staff

Hold strong leadership and management skills

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Child branch or Registered Sick Children's Nurse (RSCN).
• Recognised Post graduate Paediatric Diabetes Qualification
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing qualification (Active on the NMC register) or willingness to undertake.
• Teaching qualification or equivalent, willingness to undertake, or equivalent experience.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Educated to MSc Degree level in Paediatric diabetes
• Leadership development programme or willingness to undertake leadership training.
• Advanced Communication Skills Training.
• Completed / completing a Master’s pathway.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant demonstrable experience within paediatric diabetes care with evidence of professional development within this specialism.
• Previous experience of formal / informal teaching of CYP’s & staff.
• Experience in managing paediatric diabetes CYP’s in the hospital and community settings.
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources.
• Previous practice development experience.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in audit and evaluation.
• Experience in acting as a clinical supervisor and mentor to others
• Extensive diabetes experience.
• Previous experience of providing support via an on-call service during evenings and weekends.
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Direct care skills in hospital and community settings (i.e. Insulin dose adjustment, able to lead on pump starts and CGM starts, history taking, assessment, treatment and evaluation in relation to diabetes).

Advanced clinical assessment skills and ability to make autonomous clinical decisions and judgments.

Coaching and mentoring skills

IT literate-keyboard and word processing skills.

Completed band 7 PDSN competencies.

Excellent communication skills

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of health policy and the national and local nursing agenda.
• Database management.
• Clinical audit.
• Application of management/leadership skills and autonomous practice.
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel across different sites and within the community setting in a timely and efficient way.
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.

We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.

We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.

Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.

Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.

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