Diabetes Health Educator (North)

Diabetes Health Educator to deliver face to face and online courses Must be based in Northumberland, North Tyneside, Gateshead areas 

£18 per hour
Zero hours
Spirit Clinical Services

We're looking for a Diabetes Health Educator to deliver education courses to adult patients.  Our EMPOWER courses are loved by patients and our educators get a real buzz from helping people understand their diabetes, and they enjoy helping people to make small sustainable changes in their lifestyle.  Could you be our next Educator?  You don’t have to have clinical training, we will provide you with all the course content and support you to deliver fantastic courses!

What’s in it for you?

• A flexible role, where you can choose when you work
• Full training given, no diabetes experience required
• Recognition scheme that rewards brilliant work.
• Flexible working opportunities to align with your lifestyle.
• Wellbeing 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 in the above areas. (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 (via Teams)
• Ensuring our EMPOWER programmes are delivered in accordance with the curriculum, syllabus, educator handbook, lesson plan and service(s) Operating Manual.
• 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. people@spirit-health.com

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 above 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 30th August 2026 with interviews being held on shortly after.

Any questions? Email people@spirit-health.com.

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.

Compensation: £18 p/hr