Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000

Job description

Main area Medical Dermatology Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract 12 months (This is a maternity cover fixed term post for 12 months) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 196-NM12733

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Guys Hospital Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 pa inc HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 27/04/2025 23:59 Interview date 05/05/2025

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.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced senior nurse to take on a clinical and professional leadership role at the Dowling Phototherapy Unit, part of the internationally renowned St. John’s Institute of Dermatology.

We are seeking a dynamic individual with proven experience in a senior clinical leadership role, who can demonstrate a track record of enhancing both patient and staff experience within a complex healthcare environment. If you are passionate about advancing Phototherapy services and leading the professional and clinical development of nursing teams, we invite you to join us.

The Dowling Phototherapy team delivers a range of treatments—including Narrowband UVB, PUVA, and UVA1—to adult and paediatric patients referred from general and specialist dermatology clinics. The service also supports the Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU) pathway, including nurse-led clinics focused on prescribing phototherapy and medicines management for conditions such as vitiligo and photobiology.

You will be expected to deliver compassionate, visible leadership and foster a culture of excellence. Your ability to drive service improvements while maintaining a strong focus on patient-centred care is essential. Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across multi-professional boundaries are key.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership and supervision to the Dowling Phototherapy team
• Clinically lead nursing care throughout the various patient pathways
• Provide education and support throughout the junior doctor rotation
• Provide education to the nursing teams, responsible for the education pathway of staff
• Enable collaboration across the multi-disciplinary teams through complex decision making
• Manage risk thus enabling the services to meet changing population, patient, and service delivery needs.
• Transformation, quality and improvement initiatives to develop the services.

Person specification

Skills

• Advanced clinical assessment and history taking
• Ability to draw on a diverse range of knowledge in their decision making to determine evidence based interventions and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions
• Advanced clinical reasoning skills to comprehensively assess patients
• Experience in independently facilitating Nurse-led clinics
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of speciality with a wide range of approaches to the management of photodermatology patients
• Ability to develop working relationships locally, regionally and nationally
• Broad clinical experience relevant to the post, including specialist skills and experience working as a CNS in the speciality.
• Ability to lead and work within the Nursing, medical and other professionals allied to medicine
• Experience of teaching patients and staff and others including health promotion and prevention orientation
• Possess the ability to identify and implement systems to promote their contribution and demonstrate the impact of advanced level nursing to the healthcare team and the wider health and social care sector
• Evidence of performing audit and research and dissemination of findings
• Demonstrates evidence of continuously contributing to education and teaching

Qualifications

• Non-medical prescriber
• Advanced physical assessment skills
• Certificated Dermatology courses

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

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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