Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 7 months (fixed term funding until 31/3/26)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 309-UCLH-6498
- Employer
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University College London Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) for Inclusion Health
NHS AfC: Band 7
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and compassionate Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our Inclusion Health team. Based primarily on inpatient wards, with some outreach, this role focuses on improving outcomes for inclusion health patients.
You will provide expert clinical assessment, support complex discharge planning, and work closely with multidisciplinary teams and community partners to reduce health inequalities.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced nurse with excellent communication skills, a trauma-informed approach, and a passion for delivering person-centred care to those who need it most.
Working for our organisation
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
· University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
· National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
· Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
· University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
· Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
· University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
· The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
· University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Person specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- • Post registration training
- • NMC Nursing registration
- • Knowledge of the particular issues that characterise the provision of health services to vulnerable groups and homeless persons
- • Managing patients with addictions
- • Computer Literacy skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of service implementation
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Substantial experience managing complex caseloads of a team
- • Experience of leading and running of clinical services autonomously
- • Experience of leading the delivery of a multidisciplinary team
- • Experience of acute complex discharge and patient flow
- • Experience of: Wound care management
- o Infection control
- o Chronic illness support
- o Safeguarding and Protection
- o Medication and Administration
- o Protection of vulnerable adults
- o Phlebotomy
- o Minor injuries
- o Care planning
- • Experience of record Keeping and ensure the services retain expected standards
- • Understand clinical risk assessments, and risk management
- • Ability to prioritise and delegate
- • Experience of working in community setting/general practice
- • Experience working in the homelessness sector
- • Experience establishing a new service or model of care
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Proven ability to develop effective working relationships with members of multidisciplinary teams and staff at all levels across networks.
- • Confident and articulate, able to get across own point and negotiate in complex situations.
- • Ability to work autonomously and independently
- • Proven ability to make decisions, organise and prioritise own work in a busy work environment and time critical situations
- • Able to co-ordinate and influence the activity of others to produce work within agreed timescales and quality standards. Evidence of ability to work on own initiative.
- • Committed to personal and professional development.
- • Ability to innovate and respond to change
Communication
Essential criteria
- • Ability to form excellent relationships with a wide stakeholder base
- • Good organisational skills and abilities
- • The ability and credibility to work co-operatively within senior management
- • Strong political awareness, and evidence of working well within highly sensitive environments
Personal and People Development
Essential criteria
- • Passion for working with people who are experiencing homelessness
- • Displays enthusiastic and tenacious nature
- • Ability to build and develop sustainable partnership relationships
- • Ability to provide leadership and support within a team
Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Essential criteria
- Demonstratable understanding of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:
Essential criteria
- Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.
- Completing all required training and education (both via e-learning and face to face) on infection prevention and control.
- Including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and included in your annual appraisal
- Taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care associated infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Sandra McDermott
- Job title
- Project Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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