Job summary
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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job 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
Job description
Job 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
Previous experience
Essential
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- To have or working towards a masters degree
- Leadership course
- FSRH Letter of Competence for sub-dermal implants and contraceptive coils or equivalent.
Person Specification
Values and behaviours
Essential
Previous experience
Essential
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- To have or working towards a masters degree
- Leadership course
- FSRH Letter of Competence for sub-dermal implants and contraceptive coils or equivalent.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
