Tissue Viability Nurse: Wound Care & Pathways Lead

NHS Jobs; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking a tissue viability specialist to maintain best-practice care across Norfolk Adults, working with community and inpatient teams, dermatology and lymphoedema specialists.

The role involves managing a patient caseload, applying assessment and clinical reasoning to develop and implement treatment plans, and collaborating with NHS and community providers to improve pathways and outcomes for patients with wounds and complex care needs.

Responsibilities

• Maintain tissue viability best practice across Norfolk Adults in partnership with service leads within the organisation, including community and inpatient teams, dermatology and lymphoedema specialists.
• Provide place-based clinical care and treatment, leadership and oversight to support high-quality patient care.
• Maintain a patient caseload, delivering and evaluating the effect of clinical specialist care and interventions.
• Apply developed assessment, analytical and clinical reasoning skills in evaluating the patient's condition and progressing and implementing appropriate treatment plans.
• Forge links between all health care settings across Norfolk Adults to maximise opportunities to improve patient care and the environment in which care is delivered.
• Be place based with a requirement to support and cover other place clinicians during periods of leave, high demand or as the service needs require.
• Support tissue viability education and training plan for community and ward based supporting the development of clinical practice and capability.
• Engage clinical teams in the implementation of new pathways of care to meet the requirements of national tissue viability guidance.
• Develop and maintain relationships with NHS, community providers and voluntary sector providers to embed improved pathways of care and integrated service delivery.
• Provide information to support informed consent and act as the patient advocate when informed discussion may lead to choices being made with regard to care and treatment.
• To work closely with the TV Nurse teams from the local / referring Acute Trusts and community nursing and inpatient teams around the discharge of patients with complex wounds, providing a seamless service for the patient.
• Keep professionally updated, working within National initiatives to develop the service and support best clinical practice.
• Support audits within community and inpatient teams as required.
• Support the Trust pressure ulcer action plan and associated processes in the reduction of preventable pressure ulcers alongside community and inpatient teams and the TV team.
• Provide wound care, advice and support for nursing teams to reduce the risk of patient harm, improve healing and reduce the number of avoidable inpatient admissions.

Job description

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking a tissue viability specialist to maintain best-practice care across Norfolk Adults, working with community and inpatient teams, dermatology and lymphoedema specialists.

The role involves managing a patient caseload, applying assessment and clinical reasoning to develop and implement treatment plans, and collaborating with NHS and community providers to improve pathways and outcomes for patients with wounds and complex care needs.