Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
London, SE1 7EHView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£58,133 to £65,261
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
26 October 2026
7 days leftJob description
You will be providing expertise knowledge on the wards and community, as well as supporting a multidisciplinary team. You will also be helping with pr...
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 andmake a positive difference for patients and colleagues.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.The acute Tissue Viability team looks after patients pressure ulcers, legs ulcer, surgical and traumatic wounds and chronic wounds. The team covers Guys, St Guys & Thomas' and Evelina and SLAM sites.
The nurse-led team works in partnership with patients, their carers and healthcare professionals to provide expert wound care advice and follow up care.
The team aims to improve and support high standards of practice through clinical consultations, regular audits, development of guidelines and polices and by delivering formal educational training to healthcare professionals.
We believe that training and education are key factors in pressure ulcer prevention.
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
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
Professional/ Statutory Registration
Essential: - RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
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
How to apply
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Provenance
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First seen
7 October 2026
Last checked
8 October 2026
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