Tissue Viability Lead Nurse Band 7

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust; Long Lee; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK healthcare provider is looking for a Wound Care Nurse Leader to enhance patient outcomes through clinical practice and education. The role requires significant experience in tissue viability management, effective leadership capabilities, and the ability to manage teams. The candidate should possess strong skills in report writing, service development, and maintaining patient care standards. This position is vital for delivering quality care and involves developing training programs. Salary ranges from £47,810 to £54,710 per annum pro rata.

Benefits

Cycle to Work

Travel Scheme

Childcare Vouchers

Onsite Nursery

Buying and Selling Annual Leave

Car Leasing

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and Wellbeing

Qualifications

• Significant post registration experience within a tissue viability environment.
• Continued experience of exercising initiative and independent actions.
• Experience in interprofessional and multi-agency working.

Responsibilities

• Lead pressure ulcer/wound care management adhering to national guidance.
• Improve patient care standards through quality improvement initiatives.
• Manage team duties, including rotas and performance reviews.

Skills

Tissue viability experience

Independent initiative

Partnership working

Complex wound management

Effective report writing

Education

Registered General Nurse (Part 1) with NMC registration

Post graduate study in tissue viability

Recognized teaching and assessing certificate

Evidence of Management Training/Experience

MSc in Tissue Viability related subject

Job description

Are you passionate about improving patient outcomes in wound care and skin integrity? Do you thrive on leading teams, driving innovation, and delivering high standards of care? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to make a significant impact by delivering expert leadership, clinical practice, education, training and research/audit in the prevention, care and management of patients with pressure ulcers and wounds.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for leading pressure ulcer/wound care management ensuring safe, effective, evidence-based practice in accordance with national/international guidance e.g. NICE; NPUAP and EPUAP and local guidance within the Trust wound care/pressure ulcer policies and procedures.

The post holder will be an expert resource for the Trust ensuring seamless care transitioning across inpatient and community services within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven and will be expected to display high levels of competence, professional judgement, integrity and personal accountability. The post holder will improve and maintain standards of patient care through development, implementation and continuous evaluation of quality improvement initiatives, protocols and policies. Leading on design and delivery of training and education in both mandatory and bespoke programmes throughout the Trust will be a core responsibility.

The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, and is not directly supervised. They will manage the team to include duty rotas; delegation; PDRs; sickness and absence and team development opportunities. Developing business plans to embed cost effectiveness whilst ensuring effective service delivery will be a key activity informing service improvement.

About us

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

Our values:

We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.

Job responsibilities

For further details including job description and person specification please see the attached documents.

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant post registration experience within a tissue viability environment.
• Continued experience of being able to exercise initiative and take independent actions
• Experience of partnership working including interprofessional and multi-agency working
• Broad base of experience working with adults and families in secondary and/or primary care
• Working with patients with complex wounds
• Effective report writing / presentation skills
• Experience of undertaking audit and review
• Experience of working in different cultural contexts
• Evidence of contributing to service development
• Evidence of attending tissue viability training and conferences

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse (Part 1) with current NMC registration.
• Post graduate study in tissue viability
• Recognised teaching and assessing certificate / skills
• Evidence of Management Training/Experience
• MSc in Tissue Viability related subject

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.

Divisional Director of nursing Corporate Services

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearpro rata per annum