Clinical Nurse Specialist - Medical Dermatology
Closed for applications on: 29-Apr-2025 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 29-Apr-2025 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guys Hospital
- Address
- Counting House
- Town
- Great Maze Pond,
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (4 days a week 08:00 - 18:00)
Salary
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 p.a inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Medical Dermatology
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are looking for a flexible, proactive individual who has a strong background in dermatology to join our friendly and driven Medical Dermatology Clinical Nurse Specialist Team at St. John’s Institute of Dermatology. Non- medical prescribing is a core component of the role but applications are welcomed from staff willing to imminently undertake the course if successful.
The successful candidate is expected to clinically lead on nursing care along the patient pathway. As a team we provide a wide variety of services supporting both general and tertiary specialist dermatology clinics for adult patients with severe dermatological conditions. The service extends to provide support to dermatology in-patient admissions, day treatment admissions and medicines management nurse led clinics.
Once competent, the successful candidate will work autonomously managing their own nurse led clinics, initiating and monitoring patients on systemic and biological therapies. You will be required to act as a leader and role model providing clinical supervision, teaching and mentoring to junior colleagues and peers. There is an anticipation that you actively seek involvement in quality and improvement initiatives and undertake clinical audits.
Our Dermatology service is a busy and supportive service that is internationally renowned offering progressive opportunities to help build your professional development and further your career.
Closing date:28/04/25
Interview date: 07/05/2025
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The post holder will be responsible for:
- Working autonomously and in a team managing a caseload of patients with dermatological skin conditions
- Facilitating Nurse-Led Clinics
- Delivering teaching, mentoring assessing, including the supervision of others in the clinical setting
- Participate in quality improvements.
- Providing support, education and advocacy for patient.
- Delivering patient information and undertake care planning
- Providing leadership and innovation.
- To manage and educate on dermatology wound care and skincare.
- working in accordance with the protocols and policies, peer review, audit and clinical governance.
Working for our organisation
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.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work autonomously, managing a caseload of patients within the
specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care - Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the
speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same. - Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
- Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
- Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
- Actively engage service users through the facilitation of user groups and open days.
- Co-ordinate the provision of specialist services to patients, both within hospital and/or in the community setting, effectively liaising with multidisciplinary colleagues
- Develop and run nurse led clinics where the post holder will co-ordinate the treatment in conjunction with medical staff.
- Direct, support, encourage and advise clinical teams, by the provision of specialist knowledge and advice in the care of patients within the area.
- Participate in the promotion of patient centred care, and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the patient and their family during the period of assessment, treatment and after care
- Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions
relating to their treatment and management. - Promote high quality clinical care, and assist in the development of the specialist service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinical standards
- Provide professional and clinical leadership and expertise in the speciality and to act as a resource for education and clinical expertise in the hospital and community settings.
- Demonstrate appropriate expert practice and highly specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.
*We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patient
For more details please see the attached Job description and Person specification*
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Experience caring for patients with dermatological conditions
- Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience.
- Leadership course
- Mentorship course
- RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
Desirable criteria
- To have or working towards a masters degree
- To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills working in Dermatology.
- Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately formulate suitable care plan
- Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition.
- Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to manage their own medicine management nurse led clinics
- Autonomous practitioner in managing a caseload of patients on systemic and biologicaltherapies
- Mentorship
- Knowledge of current clinical & nursing research
- Ability to carry out audit and research
Desirable criteria
- Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings
- Undertaken clinical & nursing research
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at a level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care.
- Proven evidence of management and leadership skills
- Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
- Experience of delivering patient advocacy
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care- essential
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
Values & Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Values & Behaviours
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ann Bowrin-Soyer
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971964893
- Additional information
For Further Details / Informal Visits Contact
Informal visits are encouraged.Please contact us for informal conversation or visit : Matron Ann Bowrin-Soyer ([email protected]) tel. 07767006221 and Nurse Consultant Lucy Moorhead ([email protected]). 07824526372
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability.
We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process.
Equality of opportunity is our policy.
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