Company Description
Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.
The single corporate service is delivered across both organisation. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
Job Description
NHS Band 7: Salary £49,387 - £56,115 per annum
Hours per Week: 37.5 full time
Contract Type: permanent & fixed term maternity cover
The Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist has responsibility to provide clinical expertise in the assessment, diagnosis, and production of care plans for patients with complex wound problems, education of staff, contribute to/production of policy, and provision of guidance to the Trust on all aspects of the specialty including pressure ulcer prevention. The post holder will also work with the Tissue Viability Lead to co-ordinate and implement an overall strategy for evidence-based wound care. The role will also lead and co-ordinate the Trust Tissue Viability service, with support from the Tissue Viability Lead. The post holder is required to deal effectively with staff of all levels throughout the Trust, the wider healthcare community, external organisations, and the public. This will include verbal, written and electronic media.
The post holder is required to:
- To support the Tissue Viability Lead to develop the Tissue Viability service to provide expert advice for the Trust for the effective management of patients with complex wounds and pressure ulcer prevention and management strategies.
- Through effective leadership ensure the clinical, multidisciplinary team deliver a safe, effective, responsive, caring and well-led service where compassion is embedded, and a positive patient experience is achieved.
- Provide strong professional, clinical and managerial leadership for Tissue Viability Nurses and act as a professional role model.
- Work across organisational and professional boundaries.
- Remain professionally updated in all aspects of wound care and Tissue Viability, working clinically to apply specialist practice, knowledge and skills to improve the quality of care for patients with tissue viability needs.
- Work clinically and oversee the management of the Tissue Viability patient caseload.
- Work with Senior colleagues to identify, investigate and lead on / participate in specific quality improvement projects, research and audit related to wound care and pressure ulcer prevention and management.
- As an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will take a professional and clinical leadership role and ensure that the Trust continues to meet national standards for Tissue Viability.
- The post holder will apply specialist practice, knowledge and skills to maintain and improve the incidence of hospital acquired pressure ulcers and influence the outcomes of patients with chronic/complex wounds
- Act as an expert resource in education and clinical practice to other health professionals within PHU and working collaboratively with Primary Care Trusts on the prevention of and management of relevant tissue viability matters.
- Work collaboratively with equivalent Tissue Viability clinical nurse specialist in the Isle of Wight Trust, and share best practices to improve patient pathways and outcomes.
- Advise members of the public on their enquiries related to Tissue Viability.
For further details please refer to enclosed job description.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Current RN registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications.
- BSc Degree in relevant field
- A minimum of 3 years post registration experience
- Post Reg. qualifications for specialist area (i.e. wound care ambassador programme, or other evidence)
- Leadership development program with experience of leading/managing a team
- Teaching qualification /experience
Desirable:
- Master’s degree (or evidence of working towards)
- An accredited mentorship/coaching course
Experience:
Essential:
- Significant demonstrable experience within specialism of complex wound management including Topical Negative Pressure Wound Therapy, Larvae Therapy,
- Minimum of 1 year experience within a leadership role
- Evidence of change management with relevant management/leadership course.
- Research/ Quality improvement awareness.
Desirable:
- sharp debridement competency with evidence of professional development.
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources
- Evidence of attending training to undertake Clinical supervision e.g. management and leadership modules
Knowledge:
Essential:
- Clinically competent.
- Clinical decision-making skills
- Ability to liaise effectively with senior medical and nursing staff, managers and all grades of health care workers.
- Effective leadership skills
- Organisational, prioritisation and forward planning skills
- Flexibility
- Able to support development of others and influence their clinical effectiveness
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Critical appraisal and problem-solving skills, with an attention to detail
- Strong communication and customer service skills.
- IT literate: including excel, word, Datix, PowerPoint
- Understanding of the principles and application of effective budgetary management
- Understanding of the principles and application of effective staff / HR management
- Understanding of the theory and application of Clinical Governance.
- Demonstrable experience of effective management and supervision of staff and taking charge of ward /unit, with ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Evidence of applying research into practice
- Evidence of recent CPD relating to Tissue Viability
- Sound understanding of PSIRF, proportionate learning response, and safety improvement plans, with an ability to educate others in the methodology.
Desirable:
- Demonstrable knowledge of research process.
- Advanced Communication Skills Training
Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
