Paediatric Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse in Coventry

Paediatric Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Children and Young People's Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday) Job ref 218-NM-B7-8324355

Site University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Town Coventry Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 27/10/2026

Job overview

Lead the Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nursing Team and work collaboratively as a key member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care for children and young people with diabetes.

Provide specialist clinical care, education, and support to children, young people, and their families across home, school, community, and hospital settings. Facilitate understanding of a diabetes diagnosis, treatment options, and the long-term management of this lifelong condition, including the safe and effective use of diabetes technologies such as insulin pump therapy, Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM), and flash glucose monitoring systems.

Lead, develop, and coordinate individualised education programmes for children, young people, families, carers, school staff, and healthcare professionals, ensuring learning is tailored to meet identified needs. Promote self-management by enabling children, young people, and their families to develop the knowledge, confidence, skills, and resilience necessary to effectively manage their diabetes, supported by the wider healthcare team.

Provide clinical leadership within the diabetes service, contributing to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and the achievement of local and national standards of care to improve outcomes and experience for children and young people living with diabetes.

Main duties of the job

• To build professional caring relationships with children, young people with diabetes and their families and carers and be able to communicate effectively and empathetically with children and young people with diabetes and their families always taking into consideration their chronological and developmental age and cognitive ability.
• To support, mentor and supervise student and ward nurses, medical students and members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
• To support and enable children and families/carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management.
• Utilise all local and national information and ICT systems to secure accurate and timely resource data.
• Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to achievement of corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times, including all aspects of child protection.

Responsible for providing expert clinical care, education, support, and leadership for children and young people (CYP) with diabetes and their families. The role combines direct patient care, multidisciplinary working, service development, and safeguarding responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway To Excellence designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high quality service within a complex and challenging environment with often, conflicting targets.
• Demonstrates responsibility and acceptance for the provision of a high quality professional Service, promoting best practice and implementing a review process that looks at quality and efficiency and quality to meet the needs of patients and service.
• A resource for staff, advising on national, local and Trust policy and procedures/guidelines, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice.
• Actively contribute to policy development and implementation of policies, guidelines and procedures for the department, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice.
• Undertake highly specialised technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; complex patient monitoring; equipment and invasive tests and procedures if relevant.
• Responsible for the assessment and provision of training for identified staff groups within defined areas.
• Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available.
• Undertake and participate in local and national research and audit to support implementation of evidence based practice and adherence to the clinical governance framework.
• Regularly manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need.
• Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations, e.g imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
• Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Current professional Registration (RSCN/RN Child)
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Evidence of current or recent Paediatric diabetes clinical experience
• Relevant qualification in children’s diabetes care
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Study at level 6 (degree/diploma)

Experience

• Professional clinical experience in diabetes
• Proven ability to work autonomously as well as within a team
• Experience in research and audit
• Resource Management
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team

Knowledge

• A knowledgeable clinician with the ability to apply evidence based practice
• A sound knowledge of professional policies and procedures including NICE guidance
• A commitment to clinical supervision and staff development
• In depth knowledge and experience in children’s diabetes care, including dietary aspects

Skills

• Able to prioritise and meet deadlines effectively
• Good management of own and others time
• Able to use initiative and make decisions
• Excellent communication skills
• Patient and family focused
• IT skills
• Advanced communication skills course

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values. (As detailed in UHCW’s Values in Action document below)
• Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience

To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we’ll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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