# Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-nurse-specialist-in-tissue-viability/44ce0584-f173-48f1-9cf9-15ede43f01cf - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-nurse-specialist-in-tissue-viability/44ce0584-f173-48f1-9cf9-15ede43f01cf.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St Thomas' Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 p.a. inc HCA - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term or Secondment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Preferred Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-07T12:39:52.071Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Guys_St_Thomas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing/Nursing-v8321618 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8321618?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Previous experience **Essential** - Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care. - Proven evidence of management / leadership skills and autonomous practice - Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level - Experience of delivering patient advocacy - Experience of audit, research & evidence based care - Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator ### Qualifications/ Education **Essential** - BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience - Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent. - Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience. - Mentorship course **Desirable** - To have or working towards a masters degree - To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course - Leadership course ### Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability **Essential** - Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty. - Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition. - IT Skills **Desirable** - Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings - Undertaken clinical & nursing research ### Professional/ Statutory Registration **Essential** - RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 264.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10643287) - [person specification (pdf, 65.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10643289) - [functional requirements (pdf, 368.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10643288) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.