Wound Healing Service Staff Nurse

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Telford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Telford is looking for a dedicated nurse to join their Wound Healing Service Team. This role involves assessing and providing holistic wound care while ensuring patient safety and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate should possess a nursing qualification and demonstrate strong assessment and communication skills. Opportunities for further training and career development are provided, supporting a positive work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Nursing qualification and registration are required.
• Experience in wound care or related fields preferred.
• Ability to assess patient needs and collaborate with a healthcare team.

Responsibilities

• Assessing and evaluating wound care for patients.
• Providing holistic care plans using trust policies.
• Ensuring IPC policies are followed for patient safety.
• Supporting junior staff in their learning outcomes.
• Participating in audits to ensure quality improvement.
• Ordering clinic stock and managing resources efficiently.

Skills

Wound assessment skills

Patient care

Communication

Collaboration with medical teams

Education

Nursing qualification (RN)

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 elevate 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 the Trust

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 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.