Wound Healing Service Staff Nurse

NHS; Telford; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated Wound Healing Service Team in Telford as a nurse, responsible for delivering high-quality wound care. You will enhance your skills in a supportive environment, participate in training, and promote holistic patient care, contributing to the overall quality of community health services.

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse (RGN) with NMC registration.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary health/social care.
• Knowledge of tissue viability and wound care.

Responsibilities

• Assess and implement care plans for wound management.
• Liaise with multidisciplinary teams for patient referrals.
• Participate in audits for quality improvement.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Holistic Assessment

Evidence-based Practice

Education

RGN

NMC Registered

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job summary

Are you dedicated to providing exceptional nursing care in a Wound Clinic environment?

Do you find wound healing and the aetiology intriguing?

Are you seeking a new challenge to enhance your knowledge and skills while contributing to a service committed to excellence in wound care?

We are thrilled to announce that we have a vacancy for a motivated and passionate nurse to join us at our Wound Healing Service Team in Telford and Shropshire.

Our team is professional, skilled, friendly and supportive and we prioritise safety while delivering high quality, holistic, evidence based wound care to our patients.

By joining our supportive and dedicated team you will have the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge of wound healing to provide optimum care for patients with a wide variety of wounds.

Training will be provided to enhance your skills to enable you to work as an independent clinician providing high quality patient care, as well as opportunities for further academic learning and support for your career development.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating wound care for patients.
• Provide a plan of care using trust policies and pathways for guidance whilst utilising local formularies.
• Provide holistic assessment of patients needs making onward referrals where required.
• Ensure safeguarding needs are met and escalate where indicated and ensuring IPC policies and protocols are followed ensuring ongoing patient safety.
• Support junior staff and student in achieving their learning outcomes.
• Liaise with senior nurse, Tissue Viability, GP's, and wider MDT where required.
• Participate in audits to ensure ongoing quality and improvement within the service.
• Participate in ordering of clinic stock and dressing supplies, ensuring stock rotation to avoid waste of resources.
• Support senior nurse and cover when needed.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Details Date posted

06 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

825-7113164-OPS-B

Job locations

Multi-site working

The Wound Healing Service, Dale Acre Way

Telford

TF3 2ET

Job description Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Job description Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification Training and Qualifications Essential

• RGN
• NMC Registered
• Post Registration general experience
• Ability to demonstrate a level of English Language and grammar commensurate with writing in service user case notes

Other Essential

• Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post

Experience Essential

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary / multi agency health/social care environment
• Experience and knowledge of basic administration systems including Microsoft Office
• Experience of successful partnership working arrangements with other services
• Previous community/wound care/tissue viability experience

Knowledge and Skills Essential

• Engaging and empowering approach that seeks to work with others and deliver outcomes in a successful and wellinformed manner
• Uses Evidence based practice
• Works within own defined competencies
• Ability to communicate complex and distressing information to patients and their carers in a sensitive and supportive way at a level they can understand
• Work autonomously, in line with scope of practice, competence and policies
• IT Skills
• To be able to demonstrate general tissue viability knowledge and skill

Person Specification Training and Qualifications Essential

• RGN
• NMC Registered
• Post Registration general experience
• Ability to demonstrate a level of English Language and grammar commensurate with writing in service user case notes

Other Essential

• Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post

Experience Essential

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary / multi agency health/social care environment
• Experience and knowledge of basic administration systems including Microsoft Office
• Experience of successful partnership working arrangements with other services
• Previous community/wound care/tissue viability experience

Knowledge and Skills Essential

• Engaging and empowering approach that seeks to work with others and deliver outcomes in a successful and wellinformed manner
• Uses Evidence based practice
• Works within own defined competencies
• Ability to communicate complex and distressing information to patients and their carers in a sensitive and supportive way at a level they can understand
• Work autonomously, in line with scope of practice, competence and policies
• IT Skills
• To be able to demonstrate general tissue viability knowledge and skill

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Address

Multi-site working

The Wound Healing Service, Dale Acre Way

Telford

TF3 2ET

Employer's website

https://www.shropscommunityhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Address

Multi-site working

The Wound Healing Service, Dale Acre Way

Telford

TF3 2ET

Employer's website

https://www.shropscommunityhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)