Job Purpose Provide specialist knowledge to support colleagues in the effective management of patients with diabetes within an in-patient and outpatient setting. Provide ongoing professional and clinical leadership to deliver evidence based care as part of the wider multidisciplinary team.

Nurses with basic or advanced training in professional foot care provide thorough foot assessments and provide toenail, callus, corn and fungal nail care. Those with diabetes should be treated by a nurse with advanced foot care training. Care is provided in a clinic setting.

If you have completed an advanced nurse or clinical practitioner pathway, you will have many valuable transferrable skills. To become a diabetes specialist, on-the-job training and short accredited courses can help you make the transition.

A specialist nurse is an expert nurse with a background in a particular area, for example bowel cancer. They provide information, practical and emotional support and act as your key worker (a point of contact for you and your carers) throughout your treatment.