Job summary
Are you an experienced nurse passionate about specialist vascular care? Join our dynamic Vascular Team and make a real difference to patients across south east London.
Guys and St Thomas' Vascular department serves as the Vascular Hub site for South East London and West Kent.
Two of our network hospital sites where we provide vascular services for the South East London population are: University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich (Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust).
At these two sites we provide a range of services, including varicose vein and claudication clinics, as well as support for in-patients with arterial and venous conditions. This specialist nurse position will operate across both University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, supported by the Vascular Consultants, and in close collaboration with the St Thomas' multidisciplinary teams.
We are seeking a motivated and skilled Vascular Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our team. This exciting role offers the opportunity to deliver autonomous, high-quality specialist nursing care to patients with a wide range of vascular conditions.
Closing Date: Midnight 23rd February 2026
Interview Date: 9th March 2026
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and delivering nurse-led clinics for vascular patients (e.g., peripheral arterial disease, venous disease, post-procedure follow-up, wound management, and leg ulcer care).
- Assessing, reviewing, and managing in-patients with vascular conditions across wards at both hospital sites, providing expert advice, wound care, compression therapy, patient education, and discharge planning.
- Acting as a key point of contact and expert resource for patients, carers, ward staff, community teams, and multidisciplinary colleagues (including vascular surgeons, physiotherapists, and interventional radiologists).
- Coordinating patient pathways from diagnosis through treatment and follow-up, ensuring evidence-based, patient-centred care.
- Providing specialist education, training, and support to nursing and multidisciplinary teams to enhance vascular knowledge and service quality.
- Contributing to service development, audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives within the vascular speciality.
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 around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of our communities and develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
The Vascular team is a multidisciplinary team who are friendly and dynamic working in a busy NHS Trust. The Vascular clinical nurse specialist is an integral part of the service, working at an advanced level striving to improve patient experience and outcomes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached documents which outline detailed band 7 Vascular CNS job description and person specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached documents which outline detailed band 7 Vascular CNS job description and person specification
Person Specification
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.
- RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
- Advanced Assessment Course
Desirable
- To have or working towards a masters degree
- To have or working towards a masters degree To have or working towards a non medical prescribing course
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
- Experience of delivering patient advocacy
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
Desirable
- Experience in running a nurse led vascular clinic
Skills
Essential
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty
- Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation 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.
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal & communication skills
- Demonstrate an understanding of: the National agenda for speciality. Knowledge of quality standards & NICE recommendations/NSF
- Knowledge of current clinical & nursing research
Desirable
- Undertaken clinical & nursing research
- Competent at compression bandaging
- Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings
Person Specification
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.
- RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
- Advanced Assessment Course
Desirable
- To have or working towards a masters degree
- To have or working towards a masters degree To have or working towards a non medical prescribing course
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
- Experience of delivering patient advocacy
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
Desirable
- Experience in running a nurse led vascular clinic
Skills
Essential
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty
- Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation 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.
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal & communication skills
- Demonstrate an understanding of: the National agenda for speciality. Knowledge of quality standards & NICE recommendations/NSF
- Knowledge of current clinical & nursing research
Desirable
- Undertaken clinical & nursing research
- Competent at compression bandaging
- Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings
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).
