Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse Wound Clinic

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking a Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse for their Wound Clinic. The role involves delivering wound care to patients, assessing and planning individualized care, and providing clinical leadership to ensure high-quality standards of care. Candidates must be a registered nurse with relevant experience in community health. This position offers the opportunity for professional development and collaboration within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of community health experience, including wound & leg ulcer management.
• Good verbal and written skills; understanding English to IELTS level.
• Experience of working within the NHS and safeguarding vulnerable adults.

Responsibilities

• Deliver wound care in a clinic setting for District Nursing caseload.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
• Conduct comprehensive clinical and risk assessments.

Skills

Community health experience

Holistic assessment

Doppler skills

Compression bandaging

Multidisciplinary team working

Education

Registered Nurse or equivalent NMC registration

Qualification in Leg Ulcer Management

Nurse prescribing qualification (V150, level 5/6)

Job description

Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse Wound Clinic

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***

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.

To work in partnership in a changing environment, to maintain and improve health outcomes.

Work as an autonomous practitioner providing holistic packages of safe and effective, high quality, evidenced based care to patients within a community setting.

To provide clinical, and professional leadership for the team providing care ensuring the quality and standards of care are in line with evidenced based practice.

Work as an autonomous practitioner to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and also participate in the training of patients, relatives, carers, students and other health care professionals.

Main duties of the job

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.

Engage in ongoing personal and professional development

About us

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:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

You will be responsible for carrying out full and thorough clinical and risk assessment for the people in your care, seeing them holistically, being sensitive to their needs and escalating that risk to senior staff where necessary.

Working within the wider multi-disciplinary team, you will develop and implement individualised care plans that will deliver high quality care that is evaluated and continually improved.

You will be responsible for carrying out full and thorough physical health assessments and regular monitoring of the people in your care, ensuring that their fundamental care needs are assessed and attended to including nutrition, hydration, comfort, and hygiene and producing excellent quality documentation which follows the trust record keeping standards.

We will expect you to be actively involved in regular clinical supervision and reflective practice and by undertaking the supervision of junior staff. You will collaborate with your line manager in the annual personal development process, setting goals for your continual development and undertaking training and learning opportunities that are identified in the plan.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Essential Registered Nurse or equivalent NMC registration
• Good verbal and written skills and understanding of English to IELTS level
• Practice Assessor or willingness to undertake PA training
• University accredited qualification in Leg Ulcer Management. Nurse prescribing qualification (V150, level 5/6)

Experience

• Experience of working within the NHS Knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults and the Mental Capacity Act
• Able to demonstrate the ability to write personalised patient care plans through holistic assessment and implement and evaluate care in line with contemporary practice
• Understanding of the Principles of Essence of Care, Dignity in Care and Clinical Governance
• Experience of clinical audit and service development

Physical Effort

• Physically able to carry out lifting and handling tasks
• Physically able to carry out lifting and handling tasks

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Minimum of 2 years community health experience including wound & Leg Ulcer management
• Evidence of continuing professional development in Wound and Leg Ulcer management
• Competent in assessment, Doppler skills and compression bandaging skills Multidisciplinary team working
• Knowledge of DH initiatives regarding Long Term Conditions
• Ability to facilitate learning for students

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.