Enhanced Wound Care Community Nurse

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

Job summary

Wight Healthcare in Winchester District Nursing Teams is seeking a full-time Band 6 Enhanced Wound Care nurse to join our tissue viability service. You will work under Clinical Nurse Specialists, providing supervision, competence-based assessments, and expert guidance to community and care home staff.

The role emphasizes education, leadership within the teams, maintaining clinical skills, unsupervised practice where appropriate, prioritising workload, and a customer-focused approach to promote

Qualifications

• Work under supervision of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Tissue Viability.
• Act as expert resource to community and care home staff.
• Develop ability to participate in tissue viability education programmes.

Responsibilities

• Support registered and unregistered staff to achieve tissue viability competence.
• Provide management and leadership support to the district nursing teams.
• Maintain clinical skills and work unsupervised where appropriate.
• Prioritise workload to meet deadlines with a customer-focused approach.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Winchester District Nursing Teams.

We are seeking to recruit a full-time Band 6 Enhanced Wound Care nurse into our teams

You will be working under the supervision of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Tissue Viability. You will receive support and supervision to complete a range of competence-based assessment by an experienced and highly visible TV team and gain experience in clinical practice. The successful candidate will act as an expert resource to community and care home staff. The applicant will develop the ability and willingness to participate in some tissue viability education programmes with other team members. The role also provides support to an established tissue viability Link Nurse cohort in their geographical area.

Your main role will be working within the community nursing teams in the locality to support registered and unregistered staff to achieve competence, skill and experience with Tissue Viability. In addition, you will be supporting the senior staff to provide management and leadership to the teams.

You will be expected to maintain clinical skills and competence, you will have the ability to work unsupervised, be able to prioritise your workload, have excellent communication skills and the interest and enthusiasm to promote best practice in tissue viability. As a team player, you'll be able to prioritise your work in order to meet deadlines and have a customer focused approach