Community Tissue Viability Staff Nurse

Wight Healthcare; Nursling; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The Southampton Tissue Viability Team at Adelaide Health Centre is seeking a registered nurse who is enthusiastic and passionate about wound care and tissue viability to join our community-based service.

You will work across the Community, GP Practices, Nursing Homes and clinics, delivering complex wound assessments, training and specialist advice to clinicians, patients and their families.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration.
• Experience in tissue viability or wound care preferred.
• Ability to educate and advise clinicians and patients.
• Willingness to work across community settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide tissue viability assessments and wound care advice.
• Support patients and families to improve health outcomes.
• Deliver training and education to staff.
• Collaborate with community teams, GP practices, nursing homes and clinics.

Skills

Wound assessment

Tissue viability

Patient care

Communication skills

Teaching and education

Team collaboration

Education

Registered nurse

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate registered nurse to join the Southampton Tissue Viability Team.

Our mission is to provide an open and honest, holistic, collaborative, specialist tissue viability service that facilitates the highest quality, evidence-based care, which keeps our patients at the heart of everything we do.

The team is based at the Adelaide Health Centre and will see patients in the Community, Community Hospitals, GP Practice, Nursing Homes and in Clinic.

Our role is to support health care professionals in clinical practice by providing teaching, information and specialist advice on tissue viability.

We provide:

• Complex wound assessment and advice
• Leg ulcer service, including lower limb assessment
• Telephone advice
• Training and education
• Supervision and competency review
• Link nurse meeting and training

The successful candidate will support patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing, while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment.

Care is based on comprehensive assessments and is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive, evidence-based and promotes independence.

The role will develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality, safety and striving to do better.