Band 6 Tissue Viability Nurse

Integrated Care System; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a Band 6 Tissue Viability Nurse to provide expert wound management and support for staff. The ideal candidate will have a passion for wound care, advanced communication skills, and experience in multi-disciplinary environments. This role involves delivering educational training and supporting quality assurance in clinical practices. Join a supportive team and make a significant impact on patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a passion for wound care.
• Advanced communication skills and willingness to teach.
• Experience in a multi-disciplinary work environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist nursing advice and support for patients and staff.
• Deliver education and training packages.
• Assist with clinical governance and quality assurance.

Skills

Post registration knowledge and experience

Tissue Viability knowledge

Teaching/mentorship experience

Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration

Educated to degree level or equivalent

Health Assessment post graduate qualification or willingness to work towards

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Band 6 Tissue Viability Nurse

The closing date is 18 August 2025

The Tissue Viability Service at UHB provides expert wound management, clinical support and advice to staff caring for patients with a wide range of tissue integrity problems.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a registered nurse with a passion for wound care to join our team. The successful applicant would participate in delivering the team's strategy and improving staff knowledge and skills in pressure ulcer prevention and complex wound management.

The applicant should have advanced communication skills, be willing to teach and be able to support teams and clinical areas in the introduction of new practices.

The core service days and hours are Monday to Friday 8am -- 4pm, the successful candidate will be required to work across all of the UHB acute hospital sites.

For any further information please contact Claire Freeman, Lead Tissue Viability Nurse on 07780 955087.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties:

Provide specialist nursing advice and support for patients, carers and staff

*Provide formal and informal education to staff and patients

*Devise and deliver a range of educational and training packages

*Support allocated Clinical Delivery Group within the organisation

*Assist with clinical development in maintaining and improving all aspects of clinical governance, evidence based practice, quality assurance and monitoring within the service

*Assist with service audits/activities

*Assist with monitoring standards of clinical practice, audit, research and teaching to continually improve standards of care and patient experience

*Ensure safe and effective clinical practice

*Ensure effective delivery of service/organisational objectives

*Assist with the development/update of policies and guidelines

Key Skills:

*Post registration knowledge, experience and qualification

*Tissue Viability knowledge

*Teaching/mentorship experience

*Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment

*Willingness to achieve competence in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices

*Evidence of change management

*Ability to assess plan, implement and evaluate care

*Ability to work under pressure and adapt behaviour

*Awareness of current relevant NHS policy

*Knowledge of corporate, clinical governance and safeguarding

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

• *Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration
• *Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
• *Portfolio of certified / accredited post registration professional development.
• *Health Assessment post graduate qualification / willingness to work towards

Experience

• *Post registration experience with evidence of knowledge and development for the associated area of specialist practice.
• *In depth knowledge of specialist procedures required for role, with willingness to undertake further training/ education to achieve agreed level of competence.
• *Knowledge of standards and policies associated with role.
• *Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment.
• *Demonstrable understanding of the national strategy around the specialist service and can relate this to the role.
• *Demonstrable understanding of clinical governance / patient safety processes and can relate this to the role in relation to their personal/professional accountability.

Additional Criteria

• *Consistently professional, collaborative, and compassionate in approach to colleagues/ patients
• *Effective people skills including high degree of self-awareness / self-regulation.
• *Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse information/ data and develop skills in reporting.
• *Ability to recognise limits of own competence and seek advice/ support escalating concerns as required.
• *Ability to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
• *Ability to plan and prioritise workload in response to service need.
• *Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload and developing skills, knowledge, and competence.
• *Ability to work towards autonomous enhanced practice through exposure and supervised practice to a preset level of clinical competence.
• *Ability to contribute to service development.
• *Acts to support and enable teamwork.
• *Positive and enthusiastic attitude towards supporting organisational/ service changes, learning and continuous quality improvement

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust