Job summary
This post holder will be able to lead the strategy to improve wound management across Surrey Heartlands, to maximize promote and support excellent quality of wound care across the primary care sectors, including care homes, practices, District Nurses, and Tissue Viability Colleagues.
The post-holder will be leading our wound product optimization, to ensure the wound management budget is optimally managed, including product costs, evidence, practical experience, quality, waste, and GIRFT (getting it right first time) , working with other healthcare professionals involved in wound management across Surrey Heartlands
Main duties of the job
To have overall responsibility for the management of all wound management related projects in Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board (SHICB)
To be responsible for monitoring of ONPOS and FP10 prescribing of wound management products and investigating areas of unexplained expenditure.
Liaise with the Hospital and Community services, to ensure these organisations respect the Surrey Wound Management Formulary, including their use of appropriate Formulary processes if they wish to request additions to the Formulary
Lead the provision of wound management education for up-skilling primary care clinicians to manage, prescribe and review prescribing of wound care products for their patients.
To be a key member of the Surrey Wound Formulary Group, lead on a share of new product and chapter reviews, and to provide evidence and cost effectiveness evaluation for work done by other teams as part of the consultation process. These need to be of a quality suitable for presentation to the Surrey Heartlands Area Prescribing Committee,
To mentor and support others preparing wound management papers for the Area Prescribing Committee
To manage the Medicines Resource Unit (MRU) Senior Pharmacy Technician, Business Lead for Wound Management
Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise
Requirement to travel to sites across Surrey Heartlands to meet stakeholders
About us
We have an ambitious vision for transformation and continuous improvement of health and care across our footprint. Surrey Heartlands is a partnership of organisations working together - with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. Surrey Heartlands developed into an Integrated Care Board (ICB) since July 2022, working through 4 integrated, dynamic, and sustainable partnerships (Places) each working together to deliver a shared vision across Surrey.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and the person specification documents attached within this job advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and the person specification documents attached within this job advert.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Nursing degree
- Extensive knowledge of Tissue Viability acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- At least 5 years post qualification experience including specialist grade
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the Strategic Health Authority and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Registered Nurse
Analytical
Essential
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
Communication Skills
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Good teaching and presentation skills
- Evidence of teaching a variety of health professionals
Management Skills
Essential
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long - term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Physical Skills
Essential
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
Autonomy, Freedom to Act
Essential
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
Equality and Diversity
Essential
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day -to -day working practices, but also in relation to management systems for London
Financial and Physical Resources
Essential
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Other
Essential
- Used to working in a busy environment
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Effective organizer, influencer and networker
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Completer/Finisher
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Nursing degree
- Extensive knowledge of Tissue Viability acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- At least 5 years post qualification experience including specialist grade
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the Strategic Health Authority and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Registered Nurse
Analytical
Essential
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
Communication Skills
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Good teaching and presentation skills
- Evidence of teaching a variety of health professionals
Management Skills
Essential
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long - term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Physical Skills
Essential
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
Autonomy, Freedom to Act
Essential
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
Equality and Diversity
Essential
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day -to -day working practices, but also in relation to management systems for London
Financial and Physical Resources
Essential
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Other
Essential
- Used to working in a busy environment
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Effective organizer, influencer and networker
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Completer/Finisher
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
Surrey Heartlands ICB
Address
Duke's Court
Surrey Heartlands Block C, 1st Floor Dukes Court Duke Street
Woking
GU21 5BH