Specialist Nurse

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Foundation Trust in London seeks an enthusiastic Specialist Nurse for community rehabilitation, working in a multidisciplinary team to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and promote patient independence. Ideal for Band 5 or 6 nurses looking to specialize, the role includes clinical assessment and intervention planning. Competitive salary of £46,419 to £55,046 per annum, inclusive of HCA, pro rata.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with chronic conditions and complex co-morbidities.
• Experience working in rehabilitation, reablement, or urgent response settings.
• Nursing and Midwifery Council State registration required.

Responsibilities

• Competent in specialised assessment and treatment approaches.
• Monitor quality of nursing services and performance indicators.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner managing client care.

Skills

Highly developed communication skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Autonomous clinical judgment

Ability to manage complex workloads

Education

Recognized Nursing degree qualification or equivalent

Member of relevant Clinical Interest Group

Recognised post-graduate qualification in specialist clinical area

Job description

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Nurse

The closing date is 24 November 2025

Are you an enthusiastic Nurse, looking to develop in a community rehabilitation team? Do you want to work in a diverse multidisciplinary team? Do you like supporting patients in their home and avoid unnecessary admissions? If so...

The aim of the Intermediate Care Lambeth is to provide community based care and rehabilitation to prevent unnecessary hospital admission, facilitate early hospital discharges and promote independence reducing reliance on long term social care services.

The successful applicant will work alongside Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Social Care Assessors, Pharmacists, Doctors/GPs and Rehab Support Workers as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

The nursing role includes the clinical assessment of patients' conditions and intervention planning for management of blood pressure, pressure care and prevention, continence assessment, medication reconciliation, review and/or administration, urgent wound assessment and management, falls prevention and support therapists to optimise rehabilitation.

The nursing team plays a proactive role in the prevention of unnecessary admission to hospital with 8am to 10:00pm on the phone support and same day patient reviews.

These roles would be ideal for enthusiastic Band 6 or experienced Band 5 Nurses looking to develop in the specialist areas of community rehabilitation, admission avoidance, holistic assessment, and integrated care.

Interview Date: 2/12/2025

Main duties of the job

Professional / Clinical Responsibilities

• To be competent in using a wide variety of specialised assessment and treatment approaches with adults with a range of conditions, including those with severe physical and cognitive impairment in order to formulate treatment plans, maximise rehabilitation potential and set goals.

Management and Leadership

• To monitor the quality of nursing/rehabilitation services offered and contribute to the development and review of quality measures and performance indicators.

Communication

• To be skilled in communicating, using both verbal and non-verbal means, with clients, carers and families who may have a range of physical disabilities or other barriers to understanding.
• To offer advice and communicate written and verbal information to clients/ carers and agencies including other health professionals regarding a client's management.
• To educate referrers and clients about the services the team offers.
• To monitor the quality of services offered by the team and when areas of development are identified, to implement an action plan to address these under the direction of the Clinical Manager.

Personal & Professional Development

• To reflect on practice at all times and to effectively participate in clinical supervision.
• To maintain Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registration and to work within NMC code of conduct.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals

• Guy's Hospital
• St Thomas' Hospital
• Evelina London Children's Hospital
• Harefield Hospital

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 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.

GSTT Values are to:

We are caring, we are ambitious, we are inclusive.

The team is a vibrant multidisciplinary, integrated team that supports each other to share knowledge, skills and expertise. Through strong team relationships with our Adult Social Care partners, we work to meet the needs of people living in the London Borough of Lambeth.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to attached JD for details:

Professional / Clinical Responsibilities

• To be professionally and legally responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of treatment delivered to the client to ensure a high standard of clinical care.
• To work as an autonomous lone practitioner, case managing clients in the community and coordinating their care.
• To carry out timely assessment and rehabilitation of community clients to prevent hospital admission or re-admission and facilitate early discharge home from hospital.

Management and Leadership

• To deputise in some tasks in the absence of the Senior Specialist Nurse if required.

Communication

• To work in a client centred manner with mutually agreed goals, appointments and rehabilitation programmes.
• To communicate effectively with clients, carers and family members and to develop effective working relationships with the multidisciplinary team and external agencies.
• To induct, supervise, appraise and teach students on placements within the team.

Personal & Professional Development

• To use evidence based practice to develop and maintain a high quality clinically effective and cost-effective service.
• To identify and be responsible for own training needs as well as identifying team training needs and supporting development of others.

Person Specification

Skills/Knowledge/ Ability

• Demonstrate highly developed verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills in English
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills, including observation, listening and empathy skills;
• Ability to use an evidence based approach including clinical outcome measures to evaluate outcomes;
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner and to make sound clinical judgments and decisions regarding patient care.
• Ability to manage a complex and constantly changing workload of clinical and non-clinical duties;
• Ability to plan and organize the provision of care to team's caseload of patients

Previous Experience

• Experience of working with professionals from other disciplines
• Experience of working with adults and older people with chronic conditions and complex co-morbidities
• Experience of teaching and assessing students and rehab support workers
• Experience of undertaking initial assessment.
• Able to understand and contribute to a rehabilitative approach with clients.
• Experience of supervising other members of staff.
• Experience of working in a rehabilitation, reablement or Urgent response settings.

Qualifications

• Recognized Nursing degree qualification or equivalent
• Member of relevant Clinical Interest Group.
• Recognised post-graduate qualification in specialist clinical area

Professional/ Statutory Registration

• Nursing and Midwifery Council State registration

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

£46,419 to £55,046 a yearp.a inc HCA Pro rata