Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in HCT for a Band 6 nurse to join our Tissue Viability Team. This is an exciting time as we collaborate closely with the Integrated Community Teams to transform wound care across HCT.
We are looking for a skilled, innovative, dynamic and motivated nurse with clinical skills in Tissue Viability (wound care, negative pressure wound management, leg ulcer management and pressure ulcer management).
This post requires an enthusiastic individual to work in a progressive area who will enjoy involvement in change management. You will be supported by the tissue viability specialist nurses to further enhance your own skills and knowledge in all aspects of wound management. You will work closely with them to improve reduction in pressure ulcer incidents and quality in wound management within HCT.
You will demonstrate flexibility, excellent communication and clinical skills and the ability to support education and training to health care professionals across many settings.
The ability to travel between sites is essential.
You will be expected to be involved in tissue viability audit and will support the implementation of best practice.
Applicants must have experience working within the community setting with sound knowledge and clinical skills in all areas of wound management.
Main duties of the job
To work with the leadership of the Tissue Viability Nurse Specialists to provide advice, support and training for staff, patients and carers on all aspects of research based tissue viability practice. Assisting in implementation and monitoring of evidence based care for patients and promoting good teamwork through teaching and support to health professionals who care for patients with compromised tissue viability.
MAIN DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To be responsible, in conjunction with the Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialists, for prevention of pressure ulcers and management of acute and chronic wounds within Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Services only.
- Plan, deliver and evaluate programmes of care for patients referred to the Tissue Viability Service in conjunction with the referrer - this will include community teams,hospitals and children services referrals.
- To provide up to date advice and education for patients with tissue viability problems in conjunction with the professional usually delivering the wound care, ensuring all advice is evidence based and in line with Trust, national policies and guidelines.
About us
- A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
- You'll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff
- We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities
- Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision
- We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages
- We are proud to be an armed forces friendly employer and support the employment of the armed forces community, including veterans, spouses and partners. For more information, contact armedforcesrecruitment@nhs.net.
- We don't want you to miss out so we'd like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now
- You've made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we're looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work independently to assess, plan, implement and evaluate complex wound care holistically, in conjunction with the first-line case holder, and advise onwards referral appropriately.
- To organise own clinical work in accordance with service needs and requirements. To support staff in the use of advanced wound therapies such as negative pressure wound therapy and larvae therapy.
- To be responsible as part of the tissue viability team for ensuring correct use and management of negative pressure wound therapy pumps, including triaging referrals and supporting delivery/collection with hub administrator and medical devices department.
- Promote clear, concise and specific documentation in relation to tissue viability issues using SystmOne.
- Promote good working relationships with the multi-professional teams providing appropriate specialist advice and support. Actively engage other staff members to enhance their knowledge and education.
- Liaise with all disciplines and bands of staff, patients, relatives and carers regarding tissue viability issues.
- Report and assist with any serious investigations or root cause analysis related to pressure ulcers.
- To ensure safe practice within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and adhere to the trusts policies and procedures.
- Be competent in the use of Email, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel and SystmOne.
Patient / Customer Care
- To establish and maintain effective relationships with patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team in order to facilitate patient choice and independence.
- Communicate information about tissue viability in a sensitive and empathic manner to patients, relatives and carers.
- To support self-care as much as possible, including hospital admission avoidance where appropriate.
- Provide accurate, relevant and timely electronic care records and written communication to support ongoing wound management
- Ensure excellent communication exists between the tissue viability service, GPs, HCT staff and any other staff required to work alongside.
- To work with the tissue viability specialist team to ensure patient information is up to date and relevant.
- To deal with highly complex, sensitive and contentious information
Strategic Management
- To assess, report and manage any risk clinical and non-clinical for the benefit of self, colleagues and patients, in line with Risk Management Policy.
- Provide, with tissue viability specialists, expert contribution to any serious incident, root cause analysis or safeguarding investigations or panels as required.
- Assist the tissue viability specialist team in reviewing and critically evaluating the available evidence base and national guidelines and consider how to apply these findings to clinical practice when appropriate.
- To support the tissue viability specialist team to work with the ICS/ICB to develop and implement tissue viability pathways.
- To support the TV specialists with strategic and service development, vision and direction of the tissue viability service.
- To align themselves with the Trust Values.
Service Development and Improvement
- Contribute to and actively promote the Hertfordshire wide community services wound product formulary adherence.
- Actively contribute to supporting HCT guidance in pressure ulcer prevention, assessment and treatment guidelines and infection prevention and control policy in the community.
- Actively support the tissue viability specialist nurses with audit as required, to ensure quality improvement for wound care within HCT.
- Actively contribute to the development and review of wound management related clinical decision making pathways.
- To be responsible for your own development via appraisal and competency assessment in partnership with the tissue viability specialist nurses.
- Assist the tissue viability specialist nurses in the development of tissue viability assessment tools / documentation to be used throughout HCT
Management and Leadership
- To assist the tissue viability specialist team in the delivery of both formal and informal education within a planned programme of delivery in conjunction with the learning and development department.
- To assist the tissue viability specialist team to implement changes to practice to improve the quality of care patients receive with regard to tissue viability related issues.
- To ensure personal, professional, and clinical expertise is upheld through regular evaluation and updating of individual practice.
- Maintain an electronic diary as to whereabouts in relation to urgent contacting and lone working.
- Act as a temporary mentor to student nurses, return to practice nurses and associate nurses when they are shadowing tissue viability.
Communication and Relationship Building
- Promote good communication within the multi-professional teams ensuring appropriate specialist advice and support is documented on SystmOne.
- Promote good working relationships with the multi-professional teams providing appropriate specialist advice and support.
- Attend relevant tissue viability meetings locally and in other areas.
- Engage with system wide meetings, tissue viability networking and collaborative working opportunities both within and outside of the local Integrated Care Board
- Communicate complex and sensitive issues to patients and their relatives/carers as required.
- To work in an amenable yet authoritative manner to promote partnership working and relationships with all health care professionals and carers.
- Collaborate and negotiate with commercial partners to develop effective relationships which benefit the organisation.
Finance and Resource Management
- To be responsible for ensuring that specialist supplies for the tissue viability service are ordered and stored correctly.
- To maintain a personal duty of care for specialist equipment in order to perform role e.g. annual servicing of doppler
- To promote and guide effective resource management of the wound care products formulary and budget, including analysis of data identifying usage, and respond accordingly in partnership with the CCG and Chief Pharmacist
- To monitor, with the team administrator, the tracking and use of the Trusts negative pressure wound therapy pumps.
- If a prescriber, the post holder must be aware of the Herts wide formulary and the financial impact of dressing choices
Information Management
- To ensure patient care related data is recorded accurately to support good and valid data reports.
- To utilise the trust information systems to assist in the supply of data gathering and statistical evidence required for resource management and clinical audit of the service.
- To support the tissue viability specialists to analyse pressure ulcer incidents and data to monitor trends, themes and improvement plans.
- To use SystmOne tissue viability related data reports to assess quality of wound care and pressure ulcer prevention delivery within the Integrated Community Teams.
General
- Maintain own level of competence in the speciality of tissue viability through experience, education and professional reading.
- To critically reflect on own performance through clinical supervision in order to be an effective and accountable practitioner.
- Attend relevant study days and conferences to keep abreast of evidence based practice and to learn from peers.
- This job description is neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the duties and responsibilities may vary from time to time in the lights of changing circumstances and in consultation with the job holder
- To ensure own mandatory updates are in date
- To plan and organise own appraisal and development plan
- To maintain own continuing professional development and ensure compliance with NMC revalidation
- To participate in clinical supervision
Word versions of documents are available if needed to allow for any adaptations to be made i.e. font, colour, background, convert to Read Aloud.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work independently to assess, plan, implement and evaluate complex wound care holistically, in conjunction with the first-line case holder, and advise onwards referral appropriately.
- To organise own clinical work in accordance with service needs and requirements. To support staff in the use of advanced wound therapies such as negative pressure wound therapy and larvae therapy.
- To be responsible as part of the tissue viability team for ensuring correct use and management of negative pressure wound therapy pumps, including triaging referrals and supporting delivery/collection with hub administrator and medical devices department.
- Promote clear, concise and specific documentation in relation to tissue viability issues using SystmOne.
- Promote good working relationships with the multi-professional teams providing appropriate specialist advice and support. Actively engage other staff members to enhance their knowledge and education.
- Liaise with all disciplines and bands of staff, patients, relatives and carers regarding tissue viability issues.
- Report and assist with any serious investigations or root cause analysis related to pressure ulcers.
- To ensure safe practice within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and adhere to the trusts policies and procedures.
- Be competent in the use of Email, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel and SystmOne.
Patient / Customer Care
- To establish and maintain effective relationships with patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team in order to facilitate patient choice and independence.
- Communicate information about tissue viability in a sensitive and empathic manner to patients, relatives and carers.
- To support self-care as much as possible, including hospital admission avoidance where appropriate.
- Provide accurate, relevant and timely electronic care records and written communication to support ongoing wound management
- Ensure excellent communication exists between the tissue viability service, GPs, HCT staff and any other staff required to work alongside.
- To work with the tissue viability specialist team to ensure patient information is up to date and relevant.
- To deal with highly complex, sensitive and contentious information
Strategic Management
- To assess, report and manage any risk clinical and non-clinical for the benefit of self, colleagues and patients, in line with Risk Management Policy.
- Provide, with tissue viability specialists, expert contribution to any serious incident, root cause analysis or safeguarding investigations or panels as required.
- Assist the tissue viability specialist team in reviewing and critically evaluating the available evidence base and national guidelines and consider how to apply these findings to clinical practice when appropriate.
- To support the tissue viability specialist team to work with the ICS/ICB to develop and implement tissue viability pathways.
- To support the TV specialists with strategic and service development, vision and direction of the tissue viability service.
- To align themselves with the Trust Values.
Service Development and Improvement
- Contribute to and actively promote the Hertfordshire wide community services wound product formulary adherence.
- Actively contribute to supporting HCT guidance in pressure ulcer prevention, assessment and treatment guidelines and infection prevention and control policy in the community.
- Actively support the tissue viability specialist nurses with audit as required, to ensure quality improvement for wound care within HCT.
- Actively contribute to the development and review of wound management related clinical decision making pathways.
- To be responsible for your own development via appraisal and competency assessment in partnership with the tissue viability specialist nurses.
- Assist the tissue viability specialist nurses in the development of tissue viability assessment tools / documentation to be used throughout HCT
Management and Leadership
- To assist the tissue viability specialist team in the delivery of both formal and informal education within a planned programme of delivery in conjunction with the learning and development department.
- To assist the tissue viability specialist team to implement changes to practice to improve the quality of care patients receive with regard to tissue viability related issues.
- To ensure personal, professional, and clinical expertise is upheld through regular evaluation and updating of individual practice.
- Maintain an electronic diary as to whereabouts in relation to urgent contacting and lone working.
- Act as a temporary mentor to student nurses, return to practice nurses and associate nurses when they are shadowing tissue viability.
Communication and Relationship Building
- Promote good communication within the multi-professional teams ensuring appropriate specialist advice and support is documented on SystmOne.
- Promote good working relationships with the multi-professional teams providing appropriate specialist advice and support.
- Attend relevant tissue viability meetings locally and in other areas.
- Engage with system wide meetings, tissue viability networking and collaborative working opportunities both within and outside of the local Integrated Care Board
- Communicate complex and sensitive issues to patients and their relatives/carers as required.
- To work in an amenable yet authoritative manner to promote partnership working and relationships with all health care professionals and carers.
- Collaborate and negotiate with commercial partners to develop effective relationships which benefit the organisation.
Finance and Resource Management
- To be responsible for ensuring that specialist supplies for the tissue viability service are ordered and stored correctly.
- To maintain a personal duty of care for specialist equipment in order to perform role e.g. annual servicing of doppler
- To promote and guide effective resource management of the wound care products formulary and budget, including analysis of data identifying usage, and respond accordingly in partnership with the CCG and Chief Pharmacist
- To monitor, with the team administrator, the tracking and use of the Trusts negative pressure wound therapy pumps.
- If a prescriber, the post holder must be aware of the Herts wide formulary and the financial impact of dressing choices
Information Management
- To ensure patient care related data is recorded accurately to support good and valid data reports.
- To utilise the trust information systems to assist in the supply of data gathering and statistical evidence required for resource management and clinical audit of the service.
- To support the tissue viability specialists to analyse pressure ulcer incidents and data to monitor trends, themes and improvement plans.
- To use SystmOne tissue viability related data reports to assess quality of wound care and pressure ulcer prevention delivery within the Integrated Community Teams.
General
- Maintain own level of competence in the speciality of tissue viability through experience, education and professional reading.
- To critically reflect on own performance through clinical supervision in order to be an effective and accountable practitioner.
- Attend relevant study days and conferences to keep abreast of evidence based practice and to learn from peers.
- This job description is neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the duties and responsibilities may vary from time to time in the lights of changing circumstances and in consultation with the job holder
- To ensure own mandatory updates are in date
- To plan and organise own appraisal and development plan
- To maintain own continuing professional development and ensure compliance with NMC revalidation
- To participate in clinical supervision
Word versions of documents are available if needed to allow for any adaptations to be made i.e. font, colour, background, convert to Read Aloud.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oNMC registered Nurse oExperience of managing patients with wounds oProfessional knowledge acquired supplemented by specialist training, experience, short courses to degree level equivalent
Desirable
- nurse prescribing
- oMentorship, teaching qualification or equivalent
- oPost registration qualification in tissue viability and/or leg ulcer management
- oSharp debridement competence
Experience
Essential
- oWorking within a Community Health Care setting
- oImplementing evidence based practice
- oMulti-agency working
- oClinical knowledge in Specialist area
- oKnowledge of current safeguarding procedures
- oAbility to caseload manage and autonomously organise own workload
Desirable
- oEvidence of participating in clinical audits
- oFormal teaching experience oPresentation skills
Skills
Essential
- oOrganisational skills
- oExcellent written and verbal communication oCommunicate effectively at all levels across the organisation
- oEvidence of being able to establish positive relationships and mutual respect with people at all levels
- oExcellent interpersonal skills oAbility to teach clients and colleagues, both formally and informally
- oFamiliar with advanced wound technologies e.g. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
Desirable
- oFull working knowledge of Microsoft packages such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- oWorking knowledge of SystmOne electronic patient record system
- oKnowledge of research processes
personal qualities
Essential
- oAbility to cope with unpredictable work patterns oAbility to handle high workloads
- oAbility to remain calm under pressure oAbility to prioritise high workloads
- oAbility to work flexibly to meet deadlines
- oWorking under pressure often prolonged and unpredictable work pattern
Desirable
- oWillingness to uphold the Trust's values
- oEligible to live and work in the UK
- oHold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oNMC registered Nurse oExperience of managing patients with wounds oProfessional knowledge acquired supplemented by specialist training, experience, short courses to degree level equivalent
Desirable
- nurse prescribing
- oMentorship, teaching qualification or equivalent
- oPost registration qualification in tissue viability and/or leg ulcer management
- oSharp debridement competence
Experience
Essential
- oWorking within a Community Health Care setting
- oImplementing evidence based practice
- oMulti-agency working
- oClinical knowledge in Specialist area
- oKnowledge of current safeguarding procedures
- oAbility to caseload manage and autonomously organise own workload
Desirable
- oEvidence of participating in clinical audits
- oFormal teaching experience oPresentation skills
Skills
Essential
- oOrganisational skills
- oExcellent written and verbal communication oCommunicate effectively at all levels across the organisation
- oEvidence of being able to establish positive relationships and mutual respect with people at all levels
- oExcellent interpersonal skills oAbility to teach clients and colleagues, both formally and informally
- oFamiliar with advanced wound technologies e.g. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
Desirable
- oFull working knowledge of Microsoft packages such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- oWorking knowledge of SystmOne electronic patient record system
- oKnowledge of research processes
personal qualities
Essential
- oAbility to cope with unpredictable work patterns oAbility to handle high workloads
- oAbility to remain calm under pressure oAbility to prioritise high workloads
- oAbility to work flexibly to meet deadlines
- oWorking under pressure often prolonged and unpredictable work pattern
Desirable
- oWillingness to uphold the Trust's values
- oEligible to live and work in the UK
- oHold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
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).
