Experienced Staff Nurse - Medical and Specialist Dermatology

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Job summary

A prominent NHS Foundation Trust in London is seeking an Experienced Staff Nurse for their Medical and Specialist Dermatology Services. This full-time Band 5 position offers the opportunity to work in a leading healthcare environment that emphasizes quality patient care and teamwork. The successful candidate will engage with a multidisciplinary team, focusing on improving patient experiences and clinical outcomes. Applicants should be registered nurses with relevant outpatient and dermatology experience. Competitive salary and supportive work environment are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in outpatient settings and dermatology preferred.
• Ability to manage difficult situations and coordinate a shift.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate quality patient experience and outcomes.
• Conduct clinical practice within the dermatology service.
• Participate in teaching for patients and colleagues.

Skills

Excellent verbal communication

Team player

Basic Computer Skills

Education

Registered Nurse on the NMC register

Teaching & assessing qualification

Job description

Main area Medical and Specialist Dermatology Services Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 196-NM13493-K

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Guys Hospital Town London Salary £37,259 - £45,356 p.a inc. HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 05/01/2026 23:59 Interview date 14/01/2026

Experienced Staff Nurse - Medical and Specialist Dermatology

Band 5

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 for an Experienced Band 5 Dermatology nurse to join our Medical and Specialist Dermatology Service which is part of the internationally renowned St. John's Institute of Dermatology.

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about improving patient experience, an effective communicator, organised, proactive, self‑motivated, keen learner, reliable and a good team player.

The successful candidate will commence work in the Dermatology Department covering the Phototherapy Unit (Dowling Day), Cutaneous Allergy and our Tertiary clinics in our Outpatient Unit.

As a team we provide a wide range of services supporting both general and tertiary specialist dermatology clinics for adult patients with severe
dermatological conditions.

Closing Date: 05/01/2026 at Midnight

Interview date :14 /01/2026

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work closely with the Multi Disciplinary team, to facilitate how best to achieve quality patient experience outcome whilst acting within clearly defined policies/procedure guidelines, and codes of conduct.

The staff nurse will be responsible for undertaking clinical practice within the Medical &Specialist Dermatology Service and improving patient care
experiences and outcomes that emphasize team working and the delivery of highly coordinated and patient‑Centred care.

The Band 5 Staff Nurse role is suitable for an experienced Band 5 looking for a new challenge to further their leadership, people and clinical
management skills. Please note that Dermatology and Outpatients experience is preferred.

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 are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide 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.

Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You should be a Registered Nurse on the NMC register willing to carry out clinical practice within designated clinical areas whilst ensuring that high quality, current evidence‑based nursingassessment, care planning, implementation, interventions and evaluation of care is provided for patients

• You must be able to take part in structured teaching for patients, colleagues and students
• You will be responsible for maintaining and updating own clinical practice and knowledge, including professional portfolio.
• You will ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
• You will actively maintain documentation in accordance with the NMCs Record Keeping Guidelines
• You will take an active role in monitoring and ensuring standards of care at own base, developing awareness for clinical governance issues.
• You will participate in collection of data for audit and research as required

Previous Dermatology and outpatients experience is preferred.

Person specification

Values & Behaviours

• Values & Behaviours
• Behaviour must be in accordance with Guys and St Thomas Values

Skills/ Knowledge/Ability

• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues/ Knowledge of evidence based practice
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Able to manage difficult situations
• Basic Computer Skills including ability to use Microsoft Word and Electronic Patient Records (EPR)

Previous Experience

• Experience of working in an outpatients setting, on own and in a team
• Supervision of junior staff
• Experience of coordinating a shift
• Experience of working in the relevant area

Qualification/Education

• Evidence of continuing professional development
• RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
• Teaching & assessing qualification

Professional/ Statutory Registration

• RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.

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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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Helen Whyte Udom
Job title Sister/Manager
Email address [e-mail]
Telephone number 07562171684

Additional information

To discuss the role further or arrange an informal visit please contact Matron Ann Bowrin‑Soyer at [e-mail] or on 07767006221 and Sister Helen Whyte Udom at [e-mail] or on 07562171684