Community Tissue Viability Staff Nurse

Wight Healthcare; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Wight Healthcare is seeking an enthusiastic registered nurse to join the Southampton Tissue Viability Team. The role supports patients and families to improve health outcomes while upholding care, compassion, competence and clear communication.

Based at the Adelaide Health Centre, the team sees patients in community settings and clinics, providing ongoing teaching and specialist tissue viability advice. The successful candidate will contribute to assessments, wound management and leg ulcer care,

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.