Job summary
- Main area
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working 1 weekend in 6 on rolling basis)
- Job ref
- 196-NM13054
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Burrell Street/Walworth Road/Streatham Hill
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 p.a inc. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/07/2025
Employer heading

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Sexual Health
Band 7
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
Do you have a high level of experience as a senior band 6 nurse or above in sexual and reproductive health and are you passionate about working in this specialty? Would you like to progress and develop your already advanced clinical knowledge and skills working within a supportive integrated service?
If you have answered yes to these questions then you will want to consider this post working in our CNS team in this permanent full-time post.
Closing Date: 22nd July 2025
Interview Date: 30th July 2025
Main duties of the job
This post will be based within the already well established teams across our 3 sites in Lambeth and Southwark providing level 3 Sexual and Reproductive health services 7 days a week.
- Work 1 in 6 weekends with time back in the week.
Working for our integrated service means that you will have the ability to work dynamically and gain high levels of skills and knowledge to develop to the best of your ability. We believe as a department your continuing development is essential and have academic mornings delivered weekly by in-house and external speakers.
We are looking for candidates who want to develop their clinical skills but also to develop their portfolios within clinical audits, QI and support clinical research with SRH.
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.
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.
Our services pride themselves on staff development and safe care delivery for both staff and patients and you will be supported by receiving regular clinical supervision, practice feedback and opportunity to undertake projects that you will present to the department. We also actively work to support the nurse re-validation process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We advise potential applicants to read the job description and person specification in order to ensure their suitability for the position offered and to look at our websites to gain an insight to what our services offer.
You will:
- Manage your own individual patient case loads in both complex sexual and reproductive health.
- Deliver LARC.
- Work as a non medical prescriber or be able to utilise PGDs.
- Always have the support of a daily assigned senior clinician.
- Be supported to develop professionally.
- Deliver teaching/mentoring to students and other staff.
- Partake in quality improvement projects and audit.
- Receive regular clinical supervision from a senior clinician and you will be providing structured clinical supervision to a junior nursing colleague.
Please see attached job description for full details
Person specification
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- Values and behaviours
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care
- Proven evidence of management / leadership skills and autonomous practice
- Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
- Experience of delivering patient advocacy
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care
Desirable criteria
- Experience teaching on formal courses, e.g. STIF and FSRH half-day assessments.
- Experience presenting at conferences either through posters or talks
Skills/Knowledge/Ability
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty
- Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
- Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition
- IT Skills
Qualifications/Education
Essential criteria
- BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent
- Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience
- FSRH diploma or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- To have or working towards a masters degree
- Leadership course
- FSRH Letter of Competence for sub-dermal implants and contraceptive coils or equivalent.
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Patrick O'Rourke
- Job title
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Email address
- patrick.o'[email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07565 204376
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