Advanced Clinical Practitioner- Inpatient Pain Team

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join the Inpatient Pain team as a Band 8a Advanced Practitioner.

The Inpatient Pain Service currently provides a Monday to Friday service 8am – 8pm cross site. The team review patients on the critical care areas and wards with acute trauma pain, post surgical pain or ongoing chronic pain and offer clinical advice to all teams to support their patient's pain management requirements.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively within the team and provide expert advice and guidance in the pain management of complex patients across multiple directorates and services, including: TAP, Haem, Cancer, Palliative Care, Acute and General Medicine. The postholder will also be instrumental in delivering a large educational portfolio to junior doctors and nurses across the trust in both complex and acute pain including training on PCAs, epidurals, local anaesthetic infusions, loading regimes, weaning regimes and recognising opioid toxicity.

The successful applicant will demonstrate evidence of senior nursing leadership, excellent communication and transformation skills and a desire to drive forward service and team development.

This post is predominantly clinical and the successful candidate will work across both Guy’s and St Thomas’ sites.

12/01/2026

TBC

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will provide expert care across the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice (Clinical Practice, Leadership and Management, Education, and Research). The post-holder will work autonomously across the Pain Management Service on both the St Thomas’s and Guys sites and focus on delivering comprehensive assessment and treatment of a range of complex pain issues.

Under the management of the Inpatient Pain Service ANP, the post holder will work closely within a team of Nurse Specialists and Consultant Anaesthetists within the Pain Service, as well as members of the wider multi-disciplinary team, in other specialist areas.

This is primarily a clinical role, but time will be allocated for service development and supporting professional activities across the other pillars of practice.

They will have a key role in teaching and supervision of other members of the multidisciplinary workforce, as well as other educational requirements across the department/Trust. Similarly, they will also have an important role in quality improvement, service development, audit, as well as opportunities for involvement in research activities.

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 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 the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it.

It is important that we all understand and reflect these values in our work. We are:

• Caring – we put patients first
• Ambitious – we innovate and strive for excellence
• Inclusive – we respect each other and work collaboratively

Our values and behaviours framework describes what it means for every one of us in the Trust to put our values into action. The framework can be found on our Trust jobs pages and our intranet

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