Job summary
The Tissue Viability teams across MWL have an exciting opportunity to join the Tissue Viability Service with 2 Band 6 positions available across the sites, a substantive WTE 1.0 (37.5hr) Band 6 based primarily at Southport and Ormskirk sites and a substantive WTE 0.4 (15 hr) based primarily at Whiston, St Helens & Newton sites although some cross site working may be required.
Will provide a specialist role under the guidance and leadership of the Lead Tissue Viability Nurse. They will provide expert advice and clinical input into the prevention of pressure ulcers and management of complex wounds.
They will support in the delivery of wound care and training of healthcare professionals including the supervision of clinical practice.
They will work as part of the MDT with the aim of preventing admission, supporting early discharge and providing on going support and advice for patients with wounds within the acute setting.
They will provide advanced standards of clinical assessment, evidence based advice and education to prevent and manage wounds to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
They will undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and represent the lead practitioner when they are not available.
The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.
Main duties of the job
- Managing workload and co-ordination of investigations and procedures necessary for treatment plans.
- Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised specialised programmes of care to provide support and advice to other staff as appropriate.
- Provide specialised wound management, planning, advice and guidance of relevant topics to influence the practice of all health care professionals within the trust and externally as /if required.
- To use specialist knowledge to ensure liaison and/or referral to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provide advice to staff in respect of appropriateness of equipment required in relation to assessed patient need.
- To provide clinical supervision to health care professionals in relation to prevention of pressure ulcers/wounds and use of equipment for this purpose.
Please review the attached Job Description for further Duties and Responsibilities
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
- To ensure that the care of patients with wounds in the acute setting is to a high standard and support the Lead Nurse Specialist to ensure the clinical governance agenda includes evidence-based protocol development, audit, risk management and professional development.
- To co-ordinate the care of patients, carers and their families with wounds within the acute setting to provide a seamless service within the multi-professional team, including staff from other statutory and voluntary agencies, both hospital and community based.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain Professional Registration.
- Adhere to relevant Code of Practice of Professional body.
- Manage own workload and co-ordinate investigations and procedures necessary for treatment plans.
- Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised specialised programmes of care and to provide support and advice to other staff as appropriate.
- Provide specialised wound management, planning, advice and guidance on a range of relevant topics to influence the practice of all health care professionals within the Trust and externally as/if required.
- To use specialist knowledge to ensure liaison and/or referral to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Provide advice to staff in respect of appropriateness of equipment required in relation to assessed patient need.
- To provide clinical supervision to health care professionals in relation to prevention of pressure ulcers/wounds and use of equipment for this purpose.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including management of patients in their care.
- To organise the job role effectively to manage clinical priorities and use of time.
- Act as a patient advocate through the application of critical and professional knowledge and skills.
- To communicate effectively and work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure a co-ordinated service. This will include representing the Tissue Viability Team at service meetings, case conferences and corporate governance meetings.
- Provide advice to palliative care services in wound and equipment management as appropriate.
- Promote better understanding on the prevention and management of wounds to patients, carers and their families to encourage self-management through education and support.
- To represent the organisation in regional and national forums as the expert on wound care and pressure ulcer prevention.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Adhere to local and national recordkeeping guidance to ensure patient safety and accurate recording of patient information.
- Ensure digital record keeping for wound care is undertaken with informed patient consent and completed daily after each patient consultation.
- Active involvement in the TVN service clinical governance agenda by assisting the Lead TVN as required with the implementation of quality assurance programmes, education programmes, risk management procedures.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
- To provide monthly teaching and training for all staff in the prevention of pressure ulceration.
- To provide teaching and training for link nurses on a bi-monthly basis to improve nursing standards in the prevention of pressure ulceration.
- Responsible for keeping own clinical practice up to date with continuing professional development and revalidation.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
- The post holder is required to participate in clinical and other local and national audits as required, including developing, setting and monitoring evidence-based care standards, protocols, guidelines and research projects for the TVN service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
- To ensure that the care of patients with wounds in the acute setting is to a high standard and support the Lead Nurse Specialist to ensure the clinical governance agenda includes evidence-based protocol development, audit, risk management and professional development.
- To co-ordinate the care of patients, carers and their families with wounds within the acute setting to provide a seamless service within the multi-professional team, including staff from other statutory and voluntary agencies, both hospital and community based.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain Professional Registration.
- Adhere to relevant Code of Practice of Professional body.
- Manage own workload and co-ordinate investigations and procedures necessary for treatment plans.
- Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised specialised programmes of care and to provide support and advice to other staff as appropriate.
- Provide specialised wound management, planning, advice and guidance on a range of relevant topics to influence the practice of all health care professionals within the Trust and externally as/if required.
- To use specialist knowledge to ensure liaison and/or referral to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Provide advice to staff in respect of appropriateness of equipment required in relation to assessed patient need.
- To provide clinical supervision to health care professionals in relation to prevention of pressure ulcers/wounds and use of equipment for this purpose.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including management of patients in their care.
- To organise the job role effectively to manage clinical priorities and use of time.
- Act as a patient advocate through the application of critical and professional knowledge and skills.
- To communicate effectively and work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure a co-ordinated service. This will include representing the Tissue Viability Team at service meetings, case conferences and corporate governance meetings.
- Provide advice to palliative care services in wound and equipment management as appropriate.
- Promote better understanding on the prevention and management of wounds to patients, carers and their families to encourage self-management through education and support.
- To represent the organisation in regional and national forums as the expert on wound care and pressure ulcer prevention.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Adhere to local and national recordkeeping guidance to ensure patient safety and accurate recording of patient information.
- Ensure digital record keeping for wound care is undertaken with informed patient consent and completed daily after each patient consultation.
- Active involvement in the TVN service clinical governance agenda by assisting the Lead TVN as required with the implementation of quality assurance programmes, education programmes, risk management procedures.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
- To provide monthly teaching and training for all staff in the prevention of pressure ulceration.
- To provide teaching and training for link nurses on a bi-monthly basis to improve nursing standards in the prevention of pressure ulceration.
- Responsible for keeping own clinical practice up to date with continuing professional development and revalidation.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
- The post holder is required to participate in clinical and other local and national audits as required, including developing, setting and monitoring evidence-based care standards, protocols, guidelines and research projects for the TVN service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Tissue Viability/Leg Ulcer modules
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- 1st Level Registered Nurse
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- Specialist clinical qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Broad level of experience of tissue viability in current role
- Experience of working independently and within a team
- Report writing skills
- Formal and informal teaching experience
- Experience in acute healthcare setting
- Experience of managing a caseload of patients with complex wounds, with responsibility for decision making
- Experience of negative pressure wound therapy risks/benefits and application
Desirable
- Experience in developing guidelines
- Experience in clinal audit
Other
Essential
- Ability to carry out nursing procedures relating to specialised area of work e.g. complex wound management
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Tissue Viability/Leg Ulcer modules
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- 1st Level Registered Nurse
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- Specialist clinical qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Broad level of experience of tissue viability in current role
- Experience of working independently and within a team
- Report writing skills
- Formal and informal teaching experience
- Experience in acute healthcare setting
- Experience of managing a caseload of patients with complex wounds, with responsibility for decision making
- Experience of negative pressure wound therapy risks/benefits and application
Desirable
- Experience in developing guidelines
- Experience in clinal audit
Other
Essential
- Ability to carry out nursing procedures relating to specialised area of work e.g. complex wound management
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.
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.
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).
