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Job requirements
Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Previous experience
Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care.
- Previous experience
Proven evidence of management / leadership skills and autonomous practice
- Previous experience
Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
- Previous experience
Experience of delivering patient advocacy
- Previous experience
Experience of audit, research & evidence based care
- Previous experience
Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
- Qualifications/ Education
BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Qualifications/ Education
Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent.
- Qualifications/ Education
Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience.
- Qualifications/ Education
Mentorship course
- Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability
Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty.
- Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability
Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition.
- Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability
IT Skills
- Professional/ Statutory Registration
RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications/ Education
To have or working towards a masters degree
- Qualifications/ Education
To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course
- Qualifications/ Education
Leadership course
- Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability
Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings
- Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability
Undertaken clinical & nursing research
Job overview
You will be providing expertise knowledge on the wards and community, as well as supporting a multidisciplinary team. You will also be helping with practice changes within the organisation and ensuring we are updated with the best practices in evidence-based care.
We are offering a great new way of working, independent, autonomous and supporting the patients from admission to discharge where you will be working from 9am-5pm Mondays to Fridays.
Previous experience at Band 6 level in community/acute is essential and you will be required to cover acute and community sites as and when required.
You will be working between sites, covering Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust as well as our community sites in Lambeth & Southwark as and when required.
Closing Date: 15th October 2026
Interview date: week commencing 26th October 2026
Main duties of the job
You will be delivering evidence based expert nursing care with a high degree of professional autonomy on a daily basis by providing specialist advice to other health professionals and patients.
You will provide regular updates on developments and issues with the service highlighting issues in a timely manner.
You will evaluate practices to ensure interventions are effective, efficient and make a positive difference for patients and colleagues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description for complete details and key responsibilities for this role.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Clinical nurse specialist role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 p.a. inc HCA. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term or Secondment). The application deadline is 26 Oct 2026.
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