Paediatric Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£49,387 to £56,515 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Coventry, CV2 2DX
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Sept 2026
Closing date:	12 Oct 2026

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Summary

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. Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested. Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

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