Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability

Job summary

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 andmake a positive difference for patients and colleagues.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description for complete details and key responsibilities for this role.

Person specification

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