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.