Advanced Nurse Practitioner

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and experienced senior nurse to take on a clinical leadership role in a prestigious healthcare setting. This role involves enhancing patient and staff experiences, leading the Dowling Phototherapy team, and driving service improvements in a complex environment. You will be at the forefront of advancing Phototherapy services, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and fostering a culture of excellence. If you are passionate about patient-centered care and have a proven track record in clinical leadership, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact in the healthcare sector.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior clinical leadership role is essential.
• Strong communication skills and multi-professional collaboration are key.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and supervision to the Dowling Phototherapy team.
• Manage risk and enable services to meet changing patient needs.
• Run nurse-led clinics and contribute to service transformation.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment and history taking

Advanced clinical reasoning skills

Experience in independently facilitating Nurse-led clinics

Ability to develop working relationships

Teaching patients and staff

Evidence of performing audit and research

Education

Non-medical prescriber

Advanced physical assessment skills

Certificated Dermatology courses

Job description

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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.

To learn more about this opportunity or to arrange an informal visit, please contact:

Interview date: 05/05/2025

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.

Job responsibilities

We are looking for a motivated, ambitious, and flexible nurse ideally with experience in Phototherapy. Non-medical prescribing is a key aspect of this role. The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership throughout the patient pathway and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team on service transformation, quality improvement, and innovation initiatives. You will also run nurse-led clinics and actively contribute to multidisciplinary clinics, audits, and operational meetings. Opportunities to participate in teaching and research are strongly encouraged.

Applicants must have experience in leading nursing and clinical services, with a proven commitment to prioritising safety, quality, and patient experience in all aspects of care.

The successful candidate will work autonomously but will have the support of the team of consultants, clinical nurse specialists, advanced nurse practitioners and matron.

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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.