Clinical Nurse Specialist- Chelsea Centre for Gender Surgery

Job summary

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the leading providers of services for the LGBTQI+ communities including our surgical service, Chelsea Centre for Gender Surgery, the gender dysphoria clinic 'TransPlus', trans sexual health service '56T'. Our trans services are recognised for their inclusivity & diversity and our ambition is to be the leading healthcare provider for trans and non-binary service users in the UK, building on the specialist expertise and knowledge of our clinical teams.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has been commissioned by NHS England to provide a comprehensive gender surgery centre including masculinising lower surgery, masculinising chest and feminising lower surgery. Our vision is for an innovative and patient-centred service, based on the principle that patients must have equal access to surgical services whatever their gender identity with reasonable adjustments to the delivery of care to match the individual's needs and circumstances.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high quality clinical services within the context of a clinical governance framework. The Clinical Nurse Specialists will be integral to promoting a high quality service to individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria and ensure that the services provided promote respect, dignity and equality for trans people.

Working across the Planned Care and Specialist Care Divisions the post holder will be responsible for providing senior clinical nursing leadership and professional development to the nursing and support worker teams across the clinical areas. The post holder will provide professional advice and support to the wider multidisciplinary team in the pre, peri and post-operative care of patients following gender affirmation surgery. In conjunction with specialist Gender Dysphoria clinics across the country, the post will ensure timely and effective treatments including post-surgical care.

About us

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection..

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.