Clinical Nurse Specialist Visa Sponsorship Uk

Job Description

An exciting opportunity awaits passionate, skilled, and enthusiastic individuals to join the Rheumatology Team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. As a key member of this team, you’ll work independently and collaboratively with a multidisciplinary group to deliver exceptional, specialized care. With guidance from a senior Clinical Nurse Specialist, the successful candidate will have the chance to expand their expertise and skills within this dynamic field.

Main Duties, Tasks, and Skills Required
You’ll build and refine your expertise to deliver and assess high-quality, seamless specialist nursing services, ensuring patients receive top-tier clinical care. This role involves sharing your specialist knowledge by providing advice, education, and support to staff, patients, families, and carers. With mentorship from experienced nurses, you’ll gain proficiency in key areas of specialist practice through hands-on experience, training, and education.

Your responsibilities will include shaping and updating policies, procedures, protocols, and guidelines, while maintaining safe, effective practice within a team setting. You’ll support team performance, optimize resource use, and deliver educational programs for healthcare staff and patients.

This role is based at a specific site or service, potentially extending to community settings across various health and care providers. You may also work in non-NHS environments—such as secure units or prisons—requiring travel across a designated area.

About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) is a leading NHS Foundation Trust in the UK, driven by our vision to Build Healthier Lives. Our success hinges on our remarkable staff, and we’re committed to making UHB the best place to work by:

Prioritizing staff health and wellbeing, with flexible working options where possible.

Offering extensive training and development to fuel personal and professional growth.

We champion fairness and belonging, fostering a compassionate, inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. This commitment is backed by action: our diverse staff networks, Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO, and a culture that encourages staff to challenge discrimination and bring their authentic selves to work. UHB is a smoke-free premises hospital.

Job Description
For a detailed job description, please refer to the attached document.

Person Specification

Qualifications
Essential:

Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration.

Evidence of post-registration CPD or a qualification in a relevant specialty, or equivalent professional knowledge plus specialist experience/short courses (FHEQ Level 6).

Experience
Essential:

Proven ability to revalidate as per NMC requirements.

Substantial post-registration experience with a clear passion and knowledge for the specialty.

Track record of career growth, ongoing professional development, and competence in current role.

Specialist expertise supported by theory and CPD relevant to rheumatology.

Experience teaching, assessing, or supervising in clinical settings.

Background in multidisciplinary and cross-agency collaboration.

Understanding or experience as a practice-based supervisor/assessor (per NMC guidelines).

Additional Criteria
Essential:

Ability to manage a clinical caseload while developing new skills and knowledge.

Readiness to master a variety of clinical skills and expanded practices.

Familiarity with corporate and clinical governance.

Adaptability to changing situations.

Willingness to work varied shifts and across UHB sites or other NHS premises as needed.

Valid car driver’s license.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This role requires a Disclosure submission to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 to check for prior convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
We welcome applications from candidates needing Skilled Worker sponsorship, considered equally with all applicants. Visit the UK Visas and Immigration website for details. Since 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants seeking UK entry clearance must provide a criminal record certificate for any country where they’ve lived for 12+ months in the past 10 years, including adult dependants (18+). See Criminal Records Checks for Overseas Applicants for guidance.

UK Professional Registration
Applicants must hold current UK professional registration. Visit the NHS Careers website for more information.

Contact for Application Support:
Sonia Hopkins
Email: Sonia.Hopkins@uhb.nhs.uk
Phone: 0121 371 6828