Lead Tissue Viability Nurse | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; Lewes; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a healthcare professional to lead the strategy for wound management across Sussex. The role involves budget optimization, collaboration with healthcare teams, and providing education to primary care clinicians. This position supports excellent wound care in various settings, contributing to the Trust's mission in community health delivery.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Excellent training and development opportunities

Cost-effective workplace nurseries

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading healthcare projects, particularly in wound management.
• Strong understanding of clinical governance and formularies.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy to improve wound management in Sussex.
• Manage the budget for wound management products and services.
• Provide education and training to primary care clinicians.

Skills

Leadership in healthcare

Wound management expertise

Budget management

Clinical education

Education

Relevant medical degree

Job description

This post holder will be able to lead the strategy to improve wound management across Sussex, to maximize promote and support excellent quality of wound care across the primary care and community services including care homes, practices, community nurses and Tissue Viability Colleagues.

The post-holder will be leading wound product optimization, to ensure the wound management budget is optimally managed, including product costs, evidence, practical experience, quality, and waste, working with other healthcare professionals involved in wound management across Sussex.

This post will be employed and hosted by Sussex Community Foundation Trust but the successful candidate will be working within the Sussex ICB medicines optimisation team to deliver the duties of the job.

This role is based at Sackville House, Lewes, but the base is negotiable as the position covered Sussex.

Please note part time hours of 22.5 hours per week or above would be considered.
• To have overall responsibility for the management of all wound management related projects in Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB)
• To be responsible for monitoring of ONPOS and FP10 prescribing of wound management products and investigating areas of unexplained expenditure.
• Liaise with the Hospital and Primary care & Community services, to ensure these organisations respect the Sussex Health & Care Partnership Wound Management Formulary, including their use of appropriate Formulary processes if they wish to request additions to the Formulary
• Lead the provision of wound management education for up-skilling primary care clinicians to manage, prescribe and review prescribing of wound care products for their patients.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Further details of the role:
• To be a key member of the Sussex Wound Formulary Group, lead on a share of new product and chapter reviews, and to provide evidence and cost effectiveness evaluation for work done by other teams as part of the consultation process. These need to be of a quality suitable for presentation to the Sussex Health & Care Partnership Area Prescribing Committee,
• To mentor and support others preparing wound management papers for the Area Prescribing Committee
• To work alongside the Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy technician for wound care in the ICB providing clinical expertise and leadership.
• Matrix management responsibility of staff employed by the ICB involved in wound care
• Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise
• Requirement to travel to sites across Sussex to meet stakeholders

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information.


This advert closes on Sunday 3 Aug 2025