Employer Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Oldham Hospital Town Oldham Salary £47,810 - £54,710 Pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 21/09/2025 23:59
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Endocrinology
Band 7
Job overview
Join Our Endocrinology Team as a Lead Clinical Nurse
Are you passionate about delivering exceptional, patient-centred care? We’re seeking an experienced nurse to provide clinical leadership in our innovative Endocrinology service.
Your Role:
* Lead high-quality care for patients with complex endocrine conditions
* Support and mentor the endocrine nursing team, fostering professional growth
* Help shape and expand endocrine services across the trust
* Provide specialist advice to multidisciplinary teams for assessment, planning, and care
* Act as a key resource for patients, families, and healthcare professionals in primary and secondary care
* Lead nurse-led clinics, inpatient consults, education, service development, and audits
What We're Looking For:
* Experienced nurse with a passion for endocrinology and advocacy
* Proactive, innovative, committed to improvement
* Potential to develop into a Band 7 role within 12-18 months, with a clear development plan
Why Join Us?
This is more than a job — it’s an opportunity to grow professionally, influence services, and improve patient outcomes. Ready to make a difference? Apply now and join a compassionate, forward-thinking team dedicated to excellence.
Main duties of the job
Become a Key Leader in Endocrine Care – Join Us as a Specialist Endocrine Nurse
Are you ready to elevate your nursing career? We’re seeking a skilled, passionate nurse to deliver autonomous, specialist endocrine care that makes a real difference.
What You’ll Do:
* Provide expert endocrine care via nurse-led clinics, treatment planning, and inpatient support, ensuring personalized, compassionate care
* Act as the key worker for complex endocrine patients—delivering tailored education, support, and guidance
* Lead endocrine testing, interpret results, prescribe treatments, and collaborate with GPs and multidisciplinary teams to optimize outcomes
* Develop and enhance endocrine services, supervise and mentor junior staff and students
* Deliver specialist education to patients, carers, and professionals, empowering them with knowledge
* Communicate sensitively with patients and families, supporting informed decisions and building trust
* Maintain accurate records, lead audits, and support quality improvement initiatives
* Promote evidence-based practice, participate in governance, and manage resources effectively
* Drive continuous learning and innovation to keep our endocrine services at the forefront of excellence
Why Join Us?
This is more than a role — it’s an opportunity to shape the future of endocrine care, develop leadership skills, and work within a supportive, forward-thinking team committed to clinical excellence.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
* Non-Medical Prescriber
* First level degree in nursing related subject or undertaking a degree pathway
* Post basic qualification in speciality
* Recognised teaching qualification
Professional Registration
* Registered Nurse with current NMC Pin
Knowledge, Training & Experience
* Relevant experience working at a senior level with experience in endocrinology
* Knowledge and experience in endocrinology
* Experience of multiprofessional working
* Experience of teaching
* Experience of good communication skills
* Ability to support and influence change
* Demonstrate specialist expertise in endocrine conditions
* Evidence of organisation and leadership skills
* Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and clinical audit
* Evidence of pro-active involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
* Demonstrates effective communication and negotiation skills
* Ability to work autonomously and part of a team
* Diplomatic, calm and objective
* IT literacy
* Leadership and management experience
* Experience of audit and research
* Experience of writing policies and developing guidelines
Other
* Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
* Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes
The NCA is proud to serve a diverse population and is committed to delivering inclusive, accessible care. We value individuality and aim to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Applications are welcomed from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and beliefs.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
Vacancies may close early if sufficient applications are received, or if an internal redeployee has been identified.
For fixed-term roles, current NHS staff will be considered for secondments, while fixed-term contracts will be offered to external (non-NHS) applicants.
The NCA does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies. Read more about this here .
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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