Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist - Tissue Viability
- NHS
- Full Time
- Colchester
- 46148.00 - 52809.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
We are looking to recruit a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability to work within our team to provide best practice and education and support in all elements of wound care.
As a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability, we require you to have experience in managing complex wounds of different aetiologies.
You will manage the Colchester Acute team of Tissue Viability Nurses delivering specialist education and training to other health care professionals and students.
You will lead the team in ensuring the delivery of a high quality, evidence based, Tissue Viability Service.
Main duties of the job
- To work as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability at Ipswich Hospital by providing expert specialist advice on tissue viability issues through both direct and indirect patient care. The role will also require cross site working at Colchester Hospital and in the Community, working with the other Harm Free Care Leads at ESNEFT to drive strategic improvement specific to Tissue Viability
- To facilitate evidence based practice on wound management, the prevention and management of pressure ulcers and patient requiring Topical Negative Pressure Therapy.
- Monitor and improve patient outcomes relating to tissue viability through pressure ulcer incidence & pressure relieving equipment audits.
- To assist with the co-ordination and provision of tissue viability education throughout ESNEFT.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse recorded on Part 1 of the NMC register
- Degree in relevant subject or evidence of working at that level
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Desirable
- Management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Proven post registration nursing experience at Band 6 level in acute or community tissue viability setting
- Sound knowledge of current trends within Tissue Viability and Pressure Ulcer prevention
- Experience of facilitating change, improving processes and promoting learning at work
Desirable
- Ability to undertake research
- Involvement in service review and development
- Ability to undertake audit
- Experience of undertaking sharp debridement
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to lead and work within a team managing and leading junior colleagues
- Advanced communication skills
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Accurate IT skills and analysis of information from database systems.
- Ability to write, analyse and interpret audit and research reports.
- Able to interpret complex data and present findings clearly in order to inform decision making.
- Able to work autonomously prioritising own and others workloads achieving a balance between clinical and other aspects of the role
- Able to demonstrate high level of personal, professional autonomy and accountability
- Ability to negotiate successful deadlines and outcomes
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.
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
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Colchester General Hospital
Colchester
CO4 5JL
