Job summary
- Main area
- Dermatology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1832
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Dermatology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 8a
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our Dermatology team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a newly developed, innovative service that will lead the transformation of systemic therapies care pathways for dermatology patients.
You will have autonomy to run your own nurse-led clinics and play a pivotal role in supporting our Systemic Therapies Drug Monitoring Clinic, working closely with medical, nursing, and management teams.
This post will be central to ensuring that our services meet national best practice guidelines, improve patient outcomes, and support the sustainability of dermatology care through modernised, nurse-led models.
Main duties of the job
• Independently assess, diagnose and manage patients receiving systemic therapies for dermatological conditions.
• Lead nurse-led clinics and develop complex management plans based on advanced clinical reasoning.
• Line manage DTU ward manager and provide support in running the DTU service
• Collaborate with the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure safe and effective delivery of care.
• Support the creation of a structured and consistent patient pathway for systemic therapies.
• Contribute to the development of clinical guidelines and quality standards.
• Initiate and participate in service development, clinical audit, and research activities.
• Communicate effectively with patients, families, and carers, including the delivery of complex and sensitive information.
• Maintain high standards of documentation and comply with GDPR and Trust information governance policies.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Nursing or other relevant healthcare professions
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice/equivalent
- Non-medical prescribing
- Certificated speciality courses
- Recognised teaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing and running clinics
- Broad clinical experience relevant to the post
- Specialist skills and experience in the speciality
- Clinical leadership at a senior level in an acute setting including people, financial and change management
- Experience of managing investigations and resolving complaints
Desirable criteria
- Developed a network of clinical and academic contacts across the system
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Analyse national policy to implement local policy and processes.
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of the speciality with a wide range of approaches to the management of complex patients
- Critically appraise research outcomes and translate into practice and care pathways across the MDT as appropriate
- Ability to organise self and others through effective self-management, delegation and allocation of activities.
- Ability to lead a team of healthcare professionals.
- Ability to promote the contribution and impact of advanced level nursing across the organisation and wider healthcare system.
- Ability to produce written material that persuades, informs and advises.
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
- Jean Firaza
- Job title
- Lead Nurse/CXH- Specialist Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 83830787
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