Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic Registered Nurse to join the Hampshire Tissue Viability Team. Based at Fort Southwick or St Marys Community Health Campus, you will support patients across Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire with complex wound assessment and leg ulcer services, telephone advice, and education.

The role emphasises holistic, patient-centred care, evidence-based practice and service improvement to enhance quality and safety.

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Registered Nurse to join the Hampshire Tissue Viability Team.

Our mission is to provide an open and honest, holistic, collaborative, specialist tissue viability service that facilitates the highest quality, evidence-based care, which keeps our patients at the heart of everything we do.

You will be based at either Fort Southwick (PO17 6AR) or St Marys Community Health Campus (PO3 6AD), covering the Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire area. There may be occasions where you are asked to travel further within Hampshire to support service delivery or attend meetings.

Our role is to support health care professionals in clinical practice by providing teaching, information and specialist advice on tissue viability.

We provide:

• Complex wound assessment and advice
• Leg ulcer service, including lower limb assessment
• Telephone advice
• Training and education
• Supervision and competency review
• Link nurse meeting and training

The successful candidate will support patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing, while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment.

Care is based on comprehensive assessments and is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive, evidence-based and promotes independence.

The role will develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality, safety and striving to do better.