Band 8C Nurse Consultant Diabetes | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

The Consultant Nurse will practice autonomously in line with Health Education England’s standards for consultant level practice providing expert practice in Diabetes and Endocrinology, strategic and enabling leadership, promoting learning, development and improvement and research and innovation, both in the Diabetes and Endocrinology teams and across the trust.

The role will be to provide system leadership and to support Clinical Nurse specialists to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners to ensure seamless delivery of patient care ensuring high quality clinical outcomes.

The post holder will act as an innovator, motivator, key change agent and role model in order to support and influence clinical pathway redesign within Diabetes and Endocrinology services including quality improvement, implementation of national initiatives, service reconfiguration and new digitally enabled models of care.

The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Director, Clinical Lead, Divisional Director of Nursing, Head of Nursing, Matron, Lead Nurses, Operational, patients and wider MDT teams to develop a Diabetes and Endocrinology responsive to the needs of patients and staff.

The role blends a significant proportion of direct, higher level clinical care with education, research and management activities. The post holder will have an educational commitment to ensure Diabetes and Endocrinology clinical pathways and practices are enveloped in all staff training programmes

• Maintain a professional behaviour at all times promoting a positive image of the Royal free London NHS Foundation Trust in line with World Class care Values at all times
• To demonstrate clinical expertise in practice for at least 50% of time in own clinical area and working in collaboration with the appropriate multi-disciplinary groups to meet the specific needs of all Diabetes and Endocrinology patients; ensuring patients benefit from a multi-disciplinary approach to their care
• To lead on on-going modernisation and new ways of working and innovation within Diabetes and Endocrinology Services to improve patient outcomes
• To independently receive and make referrals and lead on the management of a caseload for Diabetes and Endocrinology patients, treatment, diagnosis and follow-up across health care settings
• Demonstrate advanced clinical skills and knowledge that informs practice decisions in a variety of clinical settings
• To make independent clinical decisions and initiate investigations, care /treatment and technological intervention within an agreed framework
• To direct and use the results of specialist investigations to assist formulation of diagnosis and plan patient management from a range of interventions
• Following completion of the non- medical prescribing course and registration with the NMC, undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.
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This advert closes on Thursday 4 Sep 2025