Specialist Clinical Practitioner

Northumbria Group.; Ashington; Remote; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous annual leave & pension

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Tissue Viability Specialist Clinical Practitioner (Band 7) for permanent, full-time work with flexible arrangements in Ashington. The role includes expert tissue viability assessment, independent prescribing within guidelines, and coordinating care across primary and acute settings.

Salary range is £49,387–£56,515 pro rata per annum, with a commitment to staff wellbeing, development opportunities, and pension. Closing date 12/11/2026 23:59.

Qualifications

• NMC registration is essential for practice.
• Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree at 2:2 or above is required.
• Non-medical prescribing and ongoing CPD are expected.
• Clinical skills course with evidence of diagnosing and arranging investigations.
• Registered mentor status or willingness to work towards.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care for tissue viability patients across settings.
• Provide assessment and form a clinical management plan.
• Coordinate referrals and liaise with primary, secondary, and voluntary sectors.
• Prescribe safely within legislative framework and protocols.

Education

NMC registration

BSc (Hons) degree

Non-medical prescribing

Clinical skills CPD

Registered mentor

Job description

Main area Tissue Viability Specialist Clinical Practitioner Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 319-8372475IO

Site Nursery Park Town Ashington Salary £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/11/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

A Specialist Clinical Practitioner in Tissue Viability provide expert clinical care for patients within community, Nursing residential homes and acute sites. The post holder will have specialist knowledge and skills in Tissue viability assessment, and how long-term conditions, frailty, physical assessment, impact these conditions.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will use clinical reasoning, diagnostic reasoning and independent prescribing to assist in the recognition of early symptoms of tissue viability conditions and skin trauma and injuries.
• The post holder will undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical and psycho-social care needs of tissue viability patients who may also have complex chronic disease. Formulating a clinical management plan. This will involve gathering and interpreting information, performing tests and analysing the results, arranging onward referral if deemed necessary.
• The post holder will coordinate care and services to be delivered within primary care for patients during an acute episode of illness also if appropriate supporting discharge from hospital. Working in partnership with primary, secondary care and other appropriate agencies, including the voluntary sector.
• To prescribe safe effective and appropriate medication as defined by legislative framework and/or agreed protocols and guidelines.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post holder will be expected to co-ordinate care for acutely unwell patients with tissue viability conditions and navigate patients with frailty and LTC through pathways across the primary, community and secondary care interface. This will include the prevention of unnecessary admissions, facilitating appropriate discharges, and in-reaching into both acute and rehabilitation facilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NMC registration
• BSc (Hons) degree in 2:2 or above
• Non-medical prescribing and evidence of participating in CPD or willing to work towards within 2 years
• Clinical skills course and evidence of diagnosing and arranging investigations or willing to work towards within 2 years
• Registered mentor

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Laura Spence Job title Clinical Lead Tissue Viability Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0191 2933020