Community Tissue Viability Staff Nurse

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust; Nursling; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust's Southampton Tissue Viability Team is seeking an enthusiastic registered nurse to provide specialist tissue viability care across community, clinical settings and GP practices. 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.

You will deliver complex wound assessment, leg ulcer care, telephone advice and education, while contributing to supervision,

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current registration.
• Experience or exposure to wound care and leg ulcers is beneficial.
• Willingness to provide staff training and education.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Registered nurse

Wound assessment

Communication

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.