Diabetes Matron Neighbourhood Health Programme in Ledston

Diabetes Matron Neighbourhood Health Programme

Company: South and East Leeds General Practice Group
Job ID: U0053-26-0036

Job summary

Are you an experienced diabetes nurse specialist looking for a next-step senior leadership role in a genuinely new model of care? A rare opportunity has arisen to join the Tier 3 Clinical Oversight Group of the Diabetes Neighbourhood Health Programme as Diabetes Matron a Leeds system role hosted by South and East Leeds General Practice Group.

This role sits within the Tier 3 Clinical Oversight Group alongside the Consultant Diabetologist, Consultant Pharmacist, Highly Specialist Pharmacist and Clinical Psychologist. The Tier 3 group provides advanced clinical decision-making, MDT leadership and specialist oversight across the multi-neighbourhood footprint interfacing closely with Tier 2 Neighbourhood Support Teams, Practice Diabetes Leads at Tier 1 and specialist Tier 4 services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

Working pattern: this is a 0.4 WTE post 15 hours per week based across the multi-neighbourhood footprint with flexibility to be agreed at appointment. There is genuine scope to shape how the Tier 3 nursing offer is delivered and evaluated over the three-year development period. This is not a ward-based Matron post it is a system-facing, MDT-embedded senior nursing role designed to work across organisational boundaries.

Main duties of the job

Please note;

• We welcome applications on a secondment basis from anyone applying from within the Leeds Health & Care Partnership.
• If applying as a secondment we ask that you speak with your line manager to elicit their support. Should you be seconded into the team, you will remain on your current employers terms and conditions.

Main duties

You will provide senior nursing leadership within the Tier 3 Clinical Oversight Group of the Diabetes Neighbourhood Health Programme. Your focus is advanced clinical decision-making for complex and atypical diabetes presentations, MDT leadership, and workforce development across the multi-neighbourhood diabetes nursing offer.

The day-to-day mix includes weekly Tier 3 MDT attendance (combined with the existing LTHT community diabetes MDT), advanced clinical assessment for complex or atypical presentations, contribution to step-up and step-down decisions across the tiers (including new CKD Year 2 step-down and stable Type 1 Year 2 step-down), and clinical supervision of the Tier 2 Clinical Lead Nurses for Diabetes.

You will provide advanced nursing input to complex case sign-off, including insulin regimen optimisation, pre-operative optimisation, hypoglycaemia unawareness work-up, and management of atypical presentations. You will lead the interface between the community programme and Tier 4 services at LTHT, working across the acute, community and primary care boundary.

Beyond direct clinical work, you play a system-wide leadership role.

About us

South and East Leeds General Practice Group brings together general practices across the south and east of Leeds to deliver joined-up primary care, PCN services and integrated community programmes. As host employer for the Diabetes Matron post, we work in close partnership with Leeds Community Healthcare Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, West Yorkshire ICB, our neighbourhood Primary Care Networks and the wider Leeds Health and Care Partnership. This is intended as a Leeds system role rather than a solely SEL GP role the post-holder will have professional links across all partner organisations and will be seen as a system-wide advanced practice leader for diabetes nursing. You will be joining a team comfortable with new ways of working, collaborative across professional and organisational boundaries, and committed to reducing health inequalities in some of the most under-served neighbourhoods in Leeds. The culture is honest about complex multimorbidity, patient-centred in everyday decision-making, and generous with peer support. As your employer SELGP Group offer a competitive salary, access to the NHS Pension Scheme, annual leave, occupational sickness scheme and salary-sacrifice options.

Details

Date posted: 16 October 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year Depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: U0053-26-0036
Closing date: 06 November 2026

Job responsibilities

Purpose of the role:
The Diabetes Matron is a Leeds system-wide senior nursing leadership post within the Tier 3 Clinical Oversight Group of the Diabetes Neighbourhood Health Programme a new integrated model of care for adults aged 18 to 67 with diabetes (any type) and two or more other long-term conditions, delivered across the Beeston and Middleton & Hunslet PCN footprint and scaling across the multi-neighbourhood over the three-year development period.

The post-holder provides advanced clinical decision-making across atypical and complex diabetes presentations, contributes to the weekly Tier 3 MDT (combined with the existing LTHT community diabetes MDT), and provides clinical supervision to the Tier 2 Clinical Lead Nurses for Diabetes. The role sits alongside the Consultant Diabetologist, Consultant Pharmacist, Highly Specialist Pharmacist and Clinical Psychologist, forming the specialist backbone of the model.

This is not a ward-based Matron post it is a system-facing, MDT-embedded, senior nursing leadership role designed to work across organisational boundaries. The post-holder champions diabetes in wider long-term-conditions pathways, contributes to workforce and educational strategy across the Leeds diabetes nursing workforce, and drives service development, quality improvement and equity of diabetes nursing care across the neighbourhoods.

The post-holder is expected to demonstrate advanced practice competence across the four pillars set out by the Health Education England / NHS England multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research. Expert clinical knowledge of diabetes is the primary requirement of the role and takes precedence over a formal Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification. Applicants without a formal ACP qualification who can demonstrate the four pillars of advanced practice, together with expert diabetes knowledge, are strongly encouraged to apply.

Active engagement with people in deprivation deciles 1 to 3 and named priority groups (people with learning disability, serious mental illness, those homeless or vulnerably housed, those who smoke or use substances, adults living alone) is a core expectation of the role. The post-holder is expected to work in a person-centred, trauma-informed way with a working understanding of the wider social determinants of health.

Key duties and responsibilities

Advanced clinical practice and complex clinical decision-making

• Provide advanced clinical assessment, examination and consultation for adults with complex or atypical diabetes presentations including suspected MODY, LADA, type 3c (pancreatic) diabetes, early-onset Type 2 and ketosis-prone Type 2.
• Advanced nursing input to complex insulin regimen optimisation, hypoglycaemia unawareness work‑up, steroid‑induced hyperglycaemia in complex multimorbidity, and preparation for surgical procedures

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