Diabetes Specialist Nurse

We are recruiting a Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Specialist Nurse to join the Sefton Community Diabetes Team. The post holder will demonstrate a comprehensive and up‑to‑date knowledge base across 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 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. * Post holder must hold V300 qualification. The service works in partnership with University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, providing applicants with opportunities for ongoing training, professional development, and skills enhancement, supporting career progression and delivery of high‑quality diabetes care. The successful post holder will provide a high‑quality specialist diabetes service to patients across Southport, 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 outcomes, promoting self‑management, and supporting patients through complex clinical pathways. * Undertake non‑medical prescribing, initiating, adjusting, and reviewing diabetes‑related treatments in line with evidence‑based practice and local policies. * Support the delivery of high‑quality, patient‑centred diabetes care in community settings. * Provide expert education and clinical support to patients, families, and other healthcare professionals. * Use prescribing authority to improve access to timely treatment, reduce delays in care, and enhance patient outcomes. * Play an active role in service development and quality improvement initiatives. 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. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tanya Nelson Job title: Operational Manager Email address: Tanya.nelson@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07741296268 J-18808-Ljbffr