Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialist

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Colorectal Nurse Specialist/Pelvic Health Physiotherapist at a leading NHS Foundation Trust in London. This role involves providing specialist leadership and care to colorectal patients, improving their quality of life through multidisciplinary intervention. You will be responsible for managing resources, developing clinical guidelines, and supporting junior clinicians.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level.
• Audit, research and evidence based promotion experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional specialist leadership and effective management.
• Utilise specialist knowledge within the multi-disciplinary management team.
• Develop and implement clinical guidelines and standards.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Teamwork

Education

Degree in relevant subject

Job description

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Guy's Hospital Town Tabbard Annexe Salary £54,320 - £60,981 p.a. Inclusive of HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 21/05/2025 23:59 Interview date 10/06/2025

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.

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

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Pelvic Floor Unit for a Band 7 Colorectal Nurse Specialist/ Pelvic Health Physiotherapist. We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and a strong team ethos.

The Pelvic Floor Unit is a well-established, but continually developing high profile service. The primary aim of the multi-disciplinary team is to improve the symptoms, coping strategies and quality of life for patients with Pelvic Floor Dysfunction. We achieve this through multidisciplinary intervention.

You will join our established Pelvic Floor Unit providing specialist leadership, care and support to a variety of colorectal patients. You will be acting as a source of expertise and knowledge to both patients and health care professionals

Closing Date: 21 May 2025 at Midnight

Main duties of the job

To provide professional specialist leadership and effective management of resources ensuring high standards of nursing care are delivered to all colorectal patients.

To utilise specialist knowledge and skills within the multi-disciplinary management team,

To provide a specialist nursing service offering compassionate, sensitive care where physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs are met.

The post holder will act as a source of expertise and knowledge for both patients and health care professionals.

The post holder will be aware of current clinical research protocols, investigations and procedures employed in the diagnosis and treatment of colorectal disease. Initiate, lead and teach others in the implementation of innovative practice.

To develop and implement clinical guidelines and standards.

• Undertakes research and leads clinical audits in own specialist area.
• The post holder will support current Band 7's in day to day management of current services
• The post Holder will participate in undertaking pelvic floor telephone triage clinic

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 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.

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 patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of the post-holders own work

To carry out assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with complex presentations, and using clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence based practice, determines appropriate care plan utilising wide range of treatment skills and options

To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnoses in a wide range of conditions including those with a complex presentation, with occasional guidance from specialist nurses

To formulate accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive discharge plans

To continually reassess patients in order to progress treatments effectively

To co-ordinate intervention which may include other disciplines; advises and educates patient/carers/relatives/other health professionals

To manage clinical risk within own caseload at all times

To demonstrate physical ability to carry out specialist assessment and interventions including manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling

To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients

To be able to manage potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner, including but not limited to those in Continence

To support junior clinicians when indicated in the management of challenging patients

To be a role model in delivering safe and effective patient care.

To assess, plan and implement care, provide specialist advice and maintain associated and accurate records

Person specification

Qualification and Education

• Degree in relevant subject
• Audit, research and evidence based promotion experience

Experience

• Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care.
• Undertaken or support clinical research

Skills, Knowledge and Ability

• Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition
• Understanding of the national picture and agenda with respect to pelvic floor issues

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 study’s 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.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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