Diabetes Health Educator based in North East and North Cumbria
(Northumberland, North Tyneside and Gateshead)
£18 per hour
Zero hours
Spirit Clinical Services
Tired of ordinary? Join Spirit now and help us raise the good kind of hell making healthcare easier, fairer, with a personal approach. We're looking for a Diabetes Health Educator to jump in and make a real difference. Spirit
Health is on a mission, and we need brilliant people to drive it forward. We’re growing and need people who move quick, think sharp, and care deeply. Think people-first, fast-paced, rewarding, fun, and never, ever dull. We are family with purpose!
What’s in it for you?
- 25 days leave plus bank holidays.
- Option to buy 5 extra days (FTE). Time off is important!
- You always get your birthday off.
- Enhanced pay for maternity, adoption, shared parental and paternity leave.
- Bonus scheme so you get to benefit from our success.
- Recognition scheme that rewards brilliant work.
- Flexible working opportunities to align with your lifestyle.
- Death in service.
- Car scheme.
- Award winning wellbeing initiatives.
- Access to many other benefits, including lifestyle discounts, emergency loans, eye care vouchers, mental, wellness, financial and legal support.
- An award winning, fun and rewarding culture where you make a genuine difference to patients and healthcare teams every day.
The role
This role is key in delivering an exceptional, effective structured diabetes education
service for patients across the UK (evening and weekend availability is required).
Flexibility is required and offered.
- Delivery of the EMPOWER programme to patients.
- Delivery of face to face courses within the advertised area and occasional video courses
- Ensuring our EMPOWER programmes are delivered in accordance with the curriculum, syllabus, educator handbook, lesson plan and service(s) Operating Manuals.
- Ensure delivery of the EMPOWER programme in accordance with all Spirit policies and procedures
A full job description is available.
This role is for someone ready to grab an opportunity and run with it. If this feels like the challenge you’ve been waiting for get in touch.
Who we need
You are a clinical/non-clinical educator with experience in teaching/training adults.
You are an enthusiastic self-starter, understand the importance of promoting self-
care and an ability to support patients in achieving positive change and improved
health outcomes. You work autonomously, are reliable, punctual and a confident
communicator. You want to make a difference
This role requires travel within the area to deliver face to face courses in local
community settings so you must be located within the area, own a car and be in
possession of UK driving licence.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you:
- You're a brilliant self-starter.
- You set high standards and never settle for "good enough"
- You're love teaming up, but equally comfortable working independently.
- You’re ready to make a difference in healthcare.
- You're not afraid to speak up, ask questions and challenge the status quo
- You thrive on challenge, moving forward, and are happy to adapt to a fast-paced environment.
Who are Spirit
We're challengers on one mission: make health easy.
We build smarter medicines management, digital monitoring, and patient education tools that improve patients’ life and simplify work for clinicians. Trusted by the NHS for over 15 years, we are scaling.
Through Spirit Health Foundation, we're extending that mission to underserved communities globally. Early detection. Better access. Healthier lives for all.
Back-to-back rating as #1 health & social care employer (Best Companies), we’re only getting started.
With big ambitions and global impact, we need brilliant people to help us deliver.
Our hiring process is fast, fair, and fearless. We ask great questions, give real challenges, and move quickly, so you’ll always know where you stand.
Think you’ve got the Brilliance, Family, and Vigour to match? Click apply. Let’s make health easy, together.
Closing date for applications is 10th June.
Any questions? Email [email protected].
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment checks including a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
Pay: £18.00 per hour
Application question(s):
- Why are you applying for this role?
- What do you know about Spirit Health?
- What type of work environment suits you?
- What are your main strengths for this role?
- What are your main areas of development?
- Where do you see your career in five years?
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Remote
