Diabetes Matron Neighbourhood Health Programme

Are you an experienced diabetes nurse specialist looking for a next-step senior leadership role in a genuinely new model of care? A rare opportunity has arisen to join the Tier 3 Clinical Oversight Group of the Diabetes Neighbourhood Health Programme as Diabetes Matron a Leeds system role hosted by South and East Leeds General Practice Group.

This role sits within the Tier 3 Clinical Oversight Group alongside the Consultant Diabetologist, Consultant Pharmacist, Highly Specialist Pharmacist and Clinical Psychologist. The Tier 3 group provides advanced clinical decision-making, MDT leadership and specialist oversight across the multi-neighbourhood footprint interfacing closely with Tier 2 Neighbourhood Support Teams, Practice Diabetes Leads at Tier 1 and specialist Tier 4 services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

Working pattern: this is a 0.4 WTE post 15 hours per week based across the multi-neighbourhood footprint with flexibility to be agreed at appointment. There is genuine scope to shape how the Tier 3 nursing offer is delivered and evaluated over the three-year development period. This is not a ward-based Matron post it is a system-facing, MDT-embedded senior nursing role designed to work across organisational boundaries., You will provide senior nursing leadership within the Tier 3 Clinical Oversight Group of the Diabetes Neighbourhood Health Programme. Your focus is advanced clinical decision-making for complex and atypical diabetes presentations, MDT leadership, and workforce development across the multi-neighbourhood diabetes nursing offer.

The day-to-day mix includes weekly Tier 3 MDT attendance (combined with the existing LTHT community diabetes MDT), advanced clinical assessment for complex or atypical presentations, contribution to step-up and step-down decisions across the tiers (including new CKD Year 2 step-down and stable Type 1 Year 2 step-down), and clinical supervision of the Tier 2 Clinical Lead Nurses for Diabetes.

You will provide advanced nursing input to complex case sign-off, including insulin regimen optimisation, pre-operative optimisation, hypoglycaemia unawareness work-up, and management of atypical presentations. You will lead the interface between the community programme and Tier 4 services at LTHT, working across the acute, community and primary care boundary.

South and East Leeds General Practice Group brings together general practices across the south and east of Leeds to deliver joined-up primary care, PCN services and integrated community programmes. As host employer for the Diabetes Matron post, we work in close partnership with Leeds Community Healthcare Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, West Yorkshire ICB, our neighbourhood Primary Care Networks and the wider Leeds Health and Care Partnership. This is intended as a Leeds system role rather than a solely SEL GP role the post-holder will have professional links across all partner organisations and will be seen as a system-wide advanced practice leader for diabetes nursing. You will be joining a team comfortable with new ways of working, collaborative across professional and organisational boundaries, and committed to reducing health inequalities in some of the most under-served neighbourhoods in Leeds. The culture is honest about complex multimorbidity,
patient-centred in everyday decision-making, and generous with peer support. As your employer SELGP Group offer a competitive salary, access to the NHS Pension Scheme, annual leave, occupational sickness scheme and salary-sacrifice options.