Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse Wound Clinic | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking two Band 6 clinicians to deliver wound care in community clinics. Responsibilities include conducting assessments, implementing evidence-based treatment plans, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes. The role demands excellent documentation practices and ongoing personal development, ensuring high-quality care aligned with trust standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in wound care management and assessments within a community setting.
• Ability to interpret clinical assessments and implement care plans.
• Strong collaborative skills to work within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide wound care assessments and management plans.
• Advise on measures for hosiery and educate patients.
• Engage in personal and professional development.

Skills

Wound care assessment

Clinical leadership

Holistic patient care

Evidence-based practice

Tools

Healthy iO wound care app

Job description

Overview

We are looking for two Band 6 clinicians to deliver wound care in a clinic setting for patients from the District Nursing caseload who can attend Bexley and Greenwich clinics. This role works in partnership with a changing environment to maintain and improve health outcomes. The autonomous practitioner provides holistic, safe, effective, high‑quality, evidence‑based care to patients within a community setting and offers clinical and professional leadership to ensure quality and standards of care align with evidence‑based practice.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Organisational Context

Oxleas is the largest NHS provider of prison health services and offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. We work in partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector. Our 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 across the South of England, with sites in Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, and the Bracton Centre, a medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

Values

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

Additional 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.

This advert closes on Wednesday 31 Dec 2025