Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse Wound Clinic

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking experienced nurses for wound care roles in clinic settings. The successful candidates will deliver high-quality, evidence-based care, provide clinical leadership, and work closely with multidisciplinary teams. Applicants must have a nursing qualification and experience in wound assessments. This position offers a chance to make a significant impact in patient care within the community.

Qualifications

• Must be an autonomous practitioner with experience in wound care.
• Experience in assessing and planning patient care.
• Strong documentation skills in line with trust standards.

Responsibilities

• Deliver wound care to district nursing patients in clinic settings.
• Assess and implement care plans tailored to patients' needs.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure quality care.

Skills

Wound care assessment

Clinical leadership

Ankle Brachial Pressure Index (ABPI)

Use of treatment apps

Holistic assessment

Education

Nursing qualification

Tools

Healthy iO wound care app

Job description

Important Sponsorship Information

We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Role Overview

Deliver wound care in a clinic setting for patients from the District Nursing caseload who can attend a clinic. This post will be looking for 2 band 6's to work in clinic both in Bexley and Greenwich clinics. Work as an autonomous practitioner providing holistic packages of safe and effective, high quality, evidence‑based care to patients within a community setting.

Provide clinical and professional leadership for the team, ensuring the quality and standards of care are in line with evidence‑based practice. Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care, and participate in the training of patients, relatives, carers, students, and other health care professionals.

Main Duties

• Deliver wound care in a clinic setting for patients from the District Nursing caseload who can attend clinics.
• Undertake wound care assessments, devise management plans, and provide evidence‑based treatment.
• Perform Ankle Brachial Pressure Index (ABPI) Doppler assessments and leg ulceration differential diagnosis, interpreting results to select appropriate dressings, compression bandaging, or garments.
• Use the Healthy iO wound care app to support treatment and documentation.
• Advise and support District Nursing teams, including recommendations for housebound patients.
• Measure for hosiery and teach patients how to care for their legs.
• Complete holistic assessments and care planning, ensuring excellent documentation in line with trust standards.
• Collaborate closely with patients, carers, and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT).
• Participate in regular clinical supervision, reflective practice, and the supervision of junior staff.

Oxleas Overview

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

Our new values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care