Job summary
Are you passionate about improving patient outcomes in wound care and skin integrity? Do you thrive on leading teams, driving innovation, and delivering high standards of care? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to make a significant impact by delivering expert leadership, clinical practice, education, training and research/audit in the prevention, care and management of patients with pressure ulcers and wounds.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for leading pressure ulcer/wound care management ensuring safe, effective, evidence-based practice in accordance with national/international guidance e.g. NICE; NPUAP and EPUAP and local guidance within the Trust wound care/pressure ulcer policies and procedures.
The post holder will be an expert resource for the Trust ensuring seamless care transitioning across inpatient and community services within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven and will be expected to display high levels of competence, professional judgement, integrity and personal accountability. The post holder will improve and maintain standards of patient care through development, implementation and continuous evaluation of quality improvement initiatives, protocols and policies. Leading on design and delivery of training and education in both mandatory and bespoke programmes throughout the Trust will be a core responsibility.
The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, and is not directly supervised. They will manage the team to include duty rotas; delegation; PDRs; sickness and absence and team development opportunities. Developing business plans to embed cost effectiveness whilst ensuring effective service delivery will be a key activity informing service improvement.
About us
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details including job description and person specification please see the attached documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details including job description and person specification please see the attached documents.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience within a tissue viability environment.
- Continued experience of being able to exercise initiative and take independent actions
- Experience of partnership working including interprofessional and multi-agency working
- Broad base of experience working with adults and families in secondary and/or primary care
- Working with patients with complex wounds
- Effective report writing / presentation skills
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking audit and review
- Experience of working in different cultural contexts
- Evidence of contributing to service development
- Evidence of attending tissue viability training and conferences
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Evidence of post graduate study
Desirable
- MSc in TV
- Evidence of management training/experience
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience within a tissue viability environment.
- Continued experience of being able to exercise initiative and take independent actions
- Experience of partnership working including interprofessional and multi-agency working
- Broad base of experience working with adults and families in secondary and/or primary care
- Working with patients with complex wounds
- Effective report writing / presentation skills
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking audit and review
- Experience of working in different cultural contexts
- Evidence of contributing to service development
- Evidence of attending tissue viability training and conferences
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Evidence of post graduate study
Desirable
- MSc in TV
- Evidence of management training/experience
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).
