Specialist Clinical Practitioner

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Horsham; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Clinical Practitioner in Tissue Viability to deliver expert care across community, nursing homes and acute sites. The post holder will apply specialist tissue viability knowledge and advanced assessment to support patients with long-term conditions and frailty.

The role includes independent prescribing, coordinating care across primary, community and hospital settings, and working within agreed protocols to optimise outcomes.

Qualifications

• NMC registration clearly required.
• BSc (Hons) degree in 2:2 or above is essential.
• Appropriate postgraduate qualification is essential.
• Non-medical prescribing and CPD participation or willingness to pursue within 2 years.
• Clinical skills course with ability to diagnose and arrange investigations or willingness to develop within 2 years.
• Registered mentor status is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care for acutely unwell tissue viability patients across primary, community and secondary care to prevent admissions and support discharge.
• Prescribe safely within legislative frameworks and agreed protocols.
• Lead in clinical assessment, management planning and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Skills

NMC registration

BSc (Hons) 2:2

Postgraduate qualification

Non-medical prescribing

CPD participation

Clinical assessment skills

Mentorship capability

Education

BSc (Hons) degree in 2:2 or above

Postgraduate qualification

Job description

Job summary

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.

About us

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!

Details

Date posted: 29 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 319-8372475IO
Job locations: Nursery Park, Ashington, NE63 0DQ, United Kingdom

Job 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 (Essential)

• NMC registration
• BSc (Hons) degree in 2:2 or above
• Appropriate post graduate qualification
• 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Nursery Park, Ashington, NE63 0DQ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact: Clinical Lead Tissue Viability, Laura Spence, [e-mail], 01912933020

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