Job overview
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality patient care and making a real difference in the lives of those with complex conditions? UCLH’s Endometriosis Centre is seeking a skilled and compassionate Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our innovative and supportive team.
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in the patient care journey for individuals living with endometriosis - a condition requiring expert, long-term management and holistic support. Working autonomously but supported by an experienced CNS team and consultants, you will provide specialist nursing advice and emotional support to patients and their families, both in-patient and outpatient, throughout their care pathway.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
1. Deliver specialist nursing care and advice to patients with complex needs.
2. Collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team within UCLH and community services to ensure coordinated, seamless care.
3. Contribute actively in multidisciplinary team meetings to discuss patient management and service improvements.
4. Provide leadership, education, and clinical expertise to uphold excellence in patient services.
5. Support patients from diagnosis onwards, empowering them with information and tailored support.
6. Maintain a weekday, daytime service ensuring consistent availability for patients and staff.
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.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.