Barts Health NHS Trust • London E1 1FR
About this role
Join our dynamic and compassionate Diabetes Team at the Royal London Hospital, where you’ll play a key role in delivering high quality, patient centred care to people living with diabetes. We’re looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual who is passionate about improving outcomes and supporting patients to manage their condition confidently.
In this role, you’ll work closely with our multidisciplinary team, contribute to smooth day to day service delivery, and help drive forward innovative approaches to diabetes care.
What we’re looking for
- A proactive team player with excellent communication skills
- Someone who thrives in a fast paced clinical environment
- A commitment to delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care
What we offer
- Supportive colleagues and a friendly working atmosphere
- Opportunities for professional development
- A stable Monday–Friday schedule with no weekend working
If you’re ready to make a meaningful difference in diabetes care, we’d love to hear from you.
The Maternity Diabetes Clinic Failsafe Support Worker is responsible for providing comprehensive admin and clinical support to the maternity diabetes service. The role ensures the effective operation of failsafe systems to track and monitor pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes or gestational diabetes, ensuring that appointments, test results, and clinical reviews are completed in a timely manner. The role includes clinical expertise in phlebotomy.
The post holder will maintain accurate patient records, manage clinic bookings, and support communication between multidisciplinary teams including obstetricians, diabetologists, midwives, and specialist nurses and dietitian. The role is essential in ensuring that no patient is lost to follow-up and that high-risk pregnancies are monitored in line with clinical guidelines, contributing to safe and high-quality patient care.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
This advert closes on Sunday 7 Jun 2026