Diabetes/Health Educator

• Based in Northumberland, North Tyneside and Gateshead
• Flexible hours available (zero-hours)
• Extremely Competitive Package
• Fabulous Employee Benefits Package
• Share Option Scheme
• Career Progression
• Work Life Balance
• Work Satisfaction
• Making a Difference
  

This is an amazing opportunity to join our Empower education team within Spirit Healthcare.  We are a growing family of healthcare companies, looking for passionate educators to help transform diabetes care an education across the UK.

If you are driven by purpose and innovation -  come and join us!

The Company

At Spirit Health Group, we do things differently. We’re a dynamic family of healthcare companies that simplify, innovate, and inspire – putting people and patients at the heart of everything we do.

Our values – Brilliance, Vigour, and Family – shape how we work, support each other, and deliver care. We're proud to be recognised by Best Companies for our outstanding culture and impact since 2021. Our people are pivotal in:

• Saving the NHS millions of pounds with a rapidly growing range of cost-effective healthcare products and devices.
• Implementing medicines optimisation and prescribing programmes, brilliantly
• Building innovative digital remote monitoring solutions for people with long-term health conditions.
• Providing patients with high-quality education services.
• Dispensing NHS prescriptions through our friendly pharmacy that has a passion for diabetes.

Our massive growth plans will help us save the NHS £100 million and touch the lives of millions more patients.

The Role

As a Diabetes/Health Educator, you will play a vital role in delivering our Empower structured diabetes education programme to patients in and across the UK. You will deliver both face to face and virtual sessions, with some evening evening and weekend availability required. In return we offer flexibility and work satisfaction.  What you will do is:

• Deliver the EMPOWER programme to patients living with diabetes.
• Deliver sessions in line with our curriculum, standards, educator handbook, lesson plan and service(s) Operating Manual.
• Provide compassionate support to help patients achieve long-term lifestyle changes.
• Ensure compliance with all Spirit policies and procedures.

A full job description is available.

The Candidate

Whether you come from a clinical or non-clinical background, what matters most is your ability to connect, educate and inspire! You will have experience delivering education or training to adult learners, with confidence in facilitating both in person and virtual groups. You are an self-starter with strong time management skills, reliable and punctual, demonstrating professionalism in all that you do. Most importantly you believe in the power of patient self-care and behaviour change to drive and improve meaningful health outcomes.

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 car and possession of UK driving licence is essential.

Interested?  Come and join the Spirit Family and be part of driving our (and your) success forward.

Closing date for applications is 05 October 2025

Interviews will be held on 24 October 2025

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 opportunities employer.