Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Registered Nurse to join the Southampton Tissue Viability Team.
Our mission is to provide an open and honest, holistic, collaborative, specialist tissue viability service that facilitates the highest quality, evidence-based care, which keeps our patients at the heart of everything we do.
The team is based at the Adelaide Health Centre and will see patients in the Community, Community Hospitals, GP Practice, Nursing Homes and in Clinic.
Our role is to support health care professionals in clinical practice by providing teaching, information and specialist advice on tissue viability.
We provide:
- Complex wound assessment and advice
- Leg ulcer service, including lower limb assessment
- Telephone advice
- Training and education
- Supervision and competency review
- Link nurse meeting and training
The successful candidate will support patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing, while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment.
Care is based on comprehensive assessments and is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive, evidence-based and promotes independence.
The role will develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality, safety and striving to do better.
This is in line with the requirements set out in the NMC code of conduct.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide tissue viability care in clinic, patient homes and other community settings. Skills include;
-Tissue Viability assessment, diagnosis, treatment and referral
-Timely risk assessments, ensuring proactive care and management to minimise or prevent wound or ulcer breakdown or recurrence
- Support health promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities
- Actively safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults
- Obtain informed consent from patients and work within expected guidelines for patients unable to give consent
- Take responsibility for providing the highest standard of patient care through on-going assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation
- Co-ordinate, organise and manage a caseload within the Tissue Viability Service, enabling the patients' needs to be met within the limits of available staffing resources including supporting junior staff
- Be competent identifying patients for admission, discharges and/or onward referral as appropriate following a complete episode of nursing care
- Participate in multi-disciplinary reviews of patients with chronic/palliative wounds, ensuring that holistic assessments are carried out and care plans are evaluated to ensure they are up to date and relevant
- Competent managing patients using wound formulary, evaluate wound healing, recognise and categorise pressure ulcers or reduced perfusion to lower limbs, perform Doppler assessment and refer for specialist advice if required
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC
Desirable
- Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
- Practice assessor/supervisor
Experience
Essential
- Experienced in developing care plans
- Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients
- Experience of MDT working
- Experience of teaching, training or supervision
- Evidence of recent CPD
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Skills
- Tissue Viability skills, for example wound care, wound care assessment. doppler and lower limb assessment, categorising pressure ulcers and prevention or treatment strategies.
- Clinically competent at Band 5 level
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Ability to prioritise workload and work autonomously, instruct and direct others; work is managed, not supervised
- Problem solving skills
- Patient Advocacy skills
- Manual Handling skills
- Able to deal with frequent emotional or distressing circumstances
- Ability to work in unpleasant working conditions, for example bodily fluids
- Teaching, supervision and assessing skills
- Dexterity required for wound management
- Using judgement when evaluating patients' condition or progress
- Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others
- Ability to adapt to changes in the work situation
- Knowledge
- Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion
- Understanding of a range of clinical approaches
- Awareness of research and evidence based practice relevant to clinical area
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
- Values
- Is able to follow and demonstrate our HIOW NHS Foundation Trust CARE values. You can find these on the Trust website.
- What our services users expect of this post holder
- Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion and how they apply to staff and patients in a healthcare setting. Able to demonstrate personal commitment to challenging discrimination and promoting equalities, at an appropriate level for the post
- Is able to work legally in the UK
- Is able to work with children and vulnerable adults
- Ability to travel for meetings across a range of sites in Hampshire as required for role.
- For posts which require a professional registration, post holders hold a valid up to date registration with their professional body.
- A valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK is required as well as the use of a car.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC
Desirable
- Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
- Practice assessor/supervisor
Experience
Essential
- Experienced in developing care plans
- Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients
- Experience of MDT working
- Experience of teaching, training or supervision
- Evidence of recent CPD
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Skills
- Tissue Viability skills, for example wound care, wound care assessment. doppler and lower limb assessment, categorising pressure ulcers and prevention or treatment strategies.
- Clinically competent at Band 5 level
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Ability to prioritise workload and work autonomously, instruct and direct others; work is managed, not supervised
- Problem solving skills
- Patient Advocacy skills
- Manual Handling skills
- Able to deal with frequent emotional or distressing circumstances
- Ability to work in unpleasant working conditions, for example bodily fluids
- Teaching, supervision and assessing skills
- Dexterity required for wound management
- Using judgement when evaluating patients' condition or progress
- Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others
- Ability to adapt to changes in the work situation
- Knowledge
- Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion
- Understanding of a range of clinical approaches
- Awareness of research and evidence based practice relevant to clinical area
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
- Values
- Is able to follow and demonstrate our HIOW NHS Foundation Trust CARE values. You can find these on the Trust website.
- What our services users expect of this post holder
- Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion and how they apply to staff and patients in a healthcare setting. Able to demonstrate personal commitment to challenging discrimination and promoting equalities, at an appropriate level for the post
- Is able to work legally in the UK
- Is able to work with children and vulnerable adults
- Ability to travel for meetings across a range of sites in Hampshire as required for role.
- For posts which require a professional registration, post holders hold a valid up to date registration with their professional body.
- A valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK is required as well as the use of a car.
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).
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.
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
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre
William Macleod Way
Southampton
Hampshire
SO16 4XE
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
