Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Vascular Clinical Nurse Specialist
The closing date is 26 April 2026
Are you ready for a new challenge? Do you want to make a difference?
An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Sheffield Vascular Nurse Specialist team. This is full-time permanent AFC Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Vascular role covering South Yorkshire Vascular services.
We are looking for a forward-thinking nurse who is experienced in caring for patients with vascular concerns and ready to work in specialist practice. This specialist role will be managing patients within the agreed scope of practice and taking responsibility for continuity of care.
This role includes examining and assessing patients often with highly complex or chronic conditions, planning and implementation of care, working within nurse led clinics and comprehensive follow up services; and ensuring a smooth transition for patients through the relevant pathway.
To work with us you need to be enthusiastic about promoting patient comfort and improving the patients experience.
Main duties of the job
To support the Senior Vascular Nurse Specialists and Vascular Surgeons in the provision of appropriate, high quality care to patients with vascular disease.
To deliver a holistic, high quality service that reflects current clinical practice and critical thinking utilising the most appropriate model of care and evidence based practice.
Work in partnership with other professionals and other organisations to enable patients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
To work closely with other clinicians and specialists in order to ensure high quality, seamless care for each patient.
To act as a source of expert advice and information to patients, carers and relatives facilitating areas.
To contribute to the development and delivery of educational programmes delivered to nursing and non-nursing colleagues.
To work across South Yorkshire covering Vascular services primarily at the Northern General Hospital but also providing inpatient support and clinics at Barnsley District General and Rotherham District General.
The ability to drive is essential in order to carry out all elements of the role.
About us
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* To have completed the national PEAP programme for practice supervisors or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998 .
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
* Evidence of level 6 study
Experience
* Demonstrable post registration experience
* Organisational awareness
* Able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, crossing professional and organisational boundaries
* Experience of working in a busy and demanding specialty and able to prioritise and reprioritise workload throughout the day and week
* Ability to work within defined timescales
* Existing band 6 experience
* Vascular experience
* Wound care experience
Training
* An up to date knowledge of local and national developments in nursing, medical practice and policies
* Computer literacy skills including knowledge of databases, power point, word processing and patient record systems
Skills
* Ability to provide care with compassion, commitment and competence.
* Developed interpersonal skills with excellent standards of communication
* Understanding of patients needs and providing care whilst maintaining dignity.
* An understanding of the need to accept responsibility for own actions and ensure accuracy & attention to detail
* Understanding of the NMC and accountability.
* Ability to work as part of small team and maintain continuity of services.
* Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the patients and the Department
* Ability to work on own with remote access to supervision
* Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the role
Other Factors
* Able to work cross site and at outreach clinics as required.
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.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£39,959 to £48,117 a year pa/pro rata for part time staff
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