Tissue Viability And Skin Integrity Nurse Consultant

East Of England Community Health And Care Nhs Trust; West End; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust seeks an experienced Tissue Viability and Skin Integrity Nurse Consultant to provide expert clinical and professional leadership across the Trust and the wider health system.

The post holder will lead tissue viability/skin integrity services, influence wound care strategies, and drive quality improvement, governance, and education initiatives across Norfolk Adults and the East of England Community Health and Care Trust.

Qualifications

• Educated to MSc Professional Practice (Tissue Viability) with senior-level experience.
• Member of relevant professional body.
• Experience of managing budgets and HR staffing issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical leadership for tissue viability and skin integrity services across the Trust.
• Influence strategic decision-making relating to wound care, pressure ulcer prevention and skin integrity.
• Lead quality improvement programmes relating to tissue viability and skin integrity.
• Develop clinical standards, policies, pathways and governance frameworks.
• Responsible for day-to-day line management of Tissue Viability Specialist Nurses and related roles.
• Provide specialist consultancy to clinical teams and executive leaders.
• Lead education and competency development programmes across the workforce.
• Influence service development regionally and nationally through networks and research.
• Support management of a designated budget and procurement decisions relating to wound care products and equipment.
• Lead investigations of serious incidents and complex complaints.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy & policy

Communication

Budget management

Project management

Education

MSc Professional Practice (Tissue Viability)

Leadership & management qualification

Doctoral level study (desirable)

Job description

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and inspirational Tissue Viability and Skin Integrity Nurse Consultant to provide expert clinical and professional leadership across East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust and the wider health and care system.

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert clinical leadership for tissue viability and skin integrity services across the Trust.
• Influence strategic decision-making relating to wound care, pressure ulcer prevention and skin integrity.
• Provide highly complex clinical advanced assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and evaluation.
• Lead Trust-wide quality improvement programmes relating to tissue viability and skin integrity.
• Develop clinical standards, policies, pathways and governance frameworks across Norfolk Adults and across East of England Community Health and Care.
• Responsible for the day-to-day line management of Tissue Viability Specialist Nurses, Skin Integrity Clinical Leads and the Principal Podiatrist.
• Provide specialist consultancy to clinical teams, managers and executive leaders.
• Lead education and competency development programmes across the workforce.
• Influence service development regionally and nationally through professional networks and research activity.
• Support the management of a designated budget and procurement decisions relating to specialist wound care products and equipment.
• Lead investigations of serious incidents, pressure ulcers, coroners requests and complex complaints relating to tissue viability and skin integrity care.

Job responsibilities

Main Duties & Responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Provide expert clinical leadership for tissue viability and skin integrity services across the Trust.
• Influence strategic decision-making relating to wound care, pressure ulcer prevention and skin integrity.
• Provide highly complex clinical advanced assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and evaluation.
• Lead Trust-wide quality improvement programmes relating to tissue viability and skin integrity.
• Develop clinical standards, policies, pathways and governance frameworks across Norfolk Adults and across East of England Community Health and Care.
• Responsible for the day-to-day line management of Tissue Viability Specialist Nurses, Skin Integrity Clinical Leads and the Principal Podiatrist.
• Provide specialist consultancy to clinical teams, managers and executive leaders.
• Lead education and competency development programmes across the workforce.
• Influence service development regionally and nationally through professional networks and research activity.
• Support the management of a designated budget and procurement decisions relating to specialist wound care products and equipment.
• Lead investigations of serious incidents, pressure ulcers, coroners requests and complex complaints relating to tissue viability and skin integrity care.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential

• Educated to MSc Professional Practice (Tissue Viability) and equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Member of relevant professional body

Desirable

• Leadership and management qualification
• Doctoral level study, or evidence of working towards

Experience

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
• Experience of advanced level practice
• Experience of managing services and people in a health setting (NHS or other)
• Experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures service wide
• Understanding of audit/ research and assessing evidence
• Understanding of audit/ research and assessing evidence
• Experience of managing budgets and HR staffing issues
• Evidence of leading major transformation programmes with measurable outcomes
• Evidence of service improvements with positive patient outcomes
• Experience of collaborating with commissioners, Integrated Care Boards and regional partners.
• Leadership skills to deliver strategic policy and initiatives
• Experience of leading research, innovation or service evaluation programmes.

Desirable

• Management within a community service

  Desirable

  • Experience of contract management / negotiation /commissioning
  • Evidence of publication, dissemination or presentation of research and innovation.

  Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Essential

  • Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
  • Interpreting national policy for implementation
  • Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
  • Ability to demonstrate measurable impact through quality, safety and outcome indicators.
  • Expertise in partnership working across healthcare systems.
  • Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
  • Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
  • Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
  • Ability to gain credibility with clinical staff within health and partner agencies

  Communication

  Essential

  • Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
  • Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
  • Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.

  Desirable

  • Advanced communication skills

  Personal and People Development

  Essential

  • Experience of staff recruitment, induction, career development and appraisal.
  • Experience of strategic deployment of workforce to deliver a service.

  Personal Attributes / Behaviours

  Essential

  • Able to identify with the Trust's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults.

  Other

  Essential

  • Team working skills
  • Self-motivated
  • Ability to move between details and the bigger picture
  • Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
  • Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop
  • The post holder will need to be passed fit to perform full duties of the post through occupational health with any reasonable aids and adaptations.
  • Must hold full and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle
  • Able to communicate effectively in written and verbal English Language

  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.

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