Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse

Wight Healthcare; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Wight Healthcare is seeking a passionate Registered Nurse to join the Hampshire Tissue Viability Team. You will provide tissue viability support across Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire, with travel to cover Fort Southwick or St Mary's Community Health Campus as required.

You will deliver complex wound assessment and advice, leg ulcer care, telephone guidance, and education to patients and families. The role emphasises compassionate, evidence-based practice and service improvement.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration.
• Experience in tissue viability or wound care desirable.
• Willingness to travel within Hampshire.

Responsibilities

• Provide tissue viability advice and education to patients and families.
• Assess complex wounds and leg ulcers with a holistic approach.
• Offer telephone advice and support for care planning.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Tissue Viability

Clinical assessment

Education

NMC registered nurse

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.