Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist - Diabetes

Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist - Diabetes

The closing date is 02 August 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a nurse to join our team as a part‑time 30 hours (4 days per week), permanent Band 7, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Diabetes. This post will be based at Heartlands Hospital, part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, however, cross‑site work and visiting patients at home may be required on occasion.

We are looking for experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic nurses who have proven experience in the speciality of diabetes. You will have a major role in delivering excellent diabetes care both to inpatients and outpatients. You will be expected to work autonomously, develop and lead on a specialism within diabetes and be an independent prescriber.

You will act as a specialist resource and provide specialist advice in relation to care of people with diabetes and provide a range of educational and training programmes for the multidisciplinary team, patients, families and carers. Support will be given to the post holders to develop their skills, experience and competence in all spheres of diabetes nursing.

For more information or an informal visit please contact Elizabeth Daniel, Lead DSN on  or email to

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people.

As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Please note:

For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description.

• Registered Adult / Child Nurse on the NMC Register (Field dependent upon role)
• Evidence of post‑registration CPD / Post‑registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or professional knowledge supplemented by specialist experience and short courses to degree / masters level equivalent FHEQ Level 6 / 7
• Recognised mentorship course
• To have or working towards an MSc/Master's qualification
• To have or working towards advanced health assessment module – where applicable to the role
• Non‑Medical Prescriber / willingness to undertake – where applicable to the role

• Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
• Significant years post registration experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at B6 or above in defined or associated speciality and extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level
• Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and ongoing professional development/competence
• Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality
• Experience and enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching / assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting
• Working in a multi‑disciplinary and cross agency work environment
• Experience of patient service user advocacy role
• Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients / relatives / care staff
• Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality
• Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding
• Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance
• Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
• Experience in service development
• Awareness of current research related to the speciality

• Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical…