Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£58,133 - £65,261 p.a. inc HCA
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, SE1 7EH
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	7 Oct 2026
Closing date:	7 Nov 2026

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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: 15thOctober 2026

Interview date: week commencing 26thOctober 2026

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 and make a positive difference for patients and colleagues.

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.

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

This advert closes on Monday 26 Oct 2026

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