Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust as Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse (Band 7).
The Tissue Viability Nurse is a key member of the Corporate Nursing and Quality Leadership Team, is professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing & Quality and Deputy Director of Nursing and will lead the delivery and development of the Tissue Viability service.
The service aims are to provide support and advice on all aspects of Tissue Viability and complex wound care within an acute setting with a particular drive across local and national agendas to reduce hospital acquired pressure damage. To be an outstanding provider of excellent patient safety, delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time.
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is keen to welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds with the skills and motivation to join a busy, developing and energetic team.
This opportunity is a permanent full time post of 37.5 hours per week, based mainly at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool (also supporting CCC hub sites).
Closing date; Sunday 10th April 2022
For further information about this opportunity please contact Karen Kay, Deputy Director of Nursing on karen.kay4@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing professional nursing leadership, strategic direction, and expertise on all aspects of care and treatment of people with Tissue Viability/wounds across all the patient pathways.
With a passion for tissue viability, wound care you will lead/deliver our Tissue Viability service additionally provide education, training, and support to clinical staff.
An expert in this field, with the motivation, enthusiasm, and innovation to develop in this service, demonstrate evidence of leading change successfully and able to take a strategic view on service development.
The postholder will participate in system work across Cheshire and Merseyside and engage and collaborate with national, regional and local subject matter experts to ensure the Tissue Viability Service at CCC is optimised across all Trust sites. The post holder being based mainly at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool and will also support all the CCC hub sites.
The successful candidate will be a credible role model, passionate and engaging, proactive and innovative and an experienced leader, with the ability to motivate and inspire staff to deliver outstanding patient care. You will translate national and regional policy, practice and directives into local understanding and successful implementation. You will possess relevant professional qualifications plus additional specialist leadership/management qualifications/knowledge, acquired through training and experience.
About us
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading providers of non-surgical cancer treatment, caring for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.
Based in Liverpool, Merseyside and supported by radiotherapy treatment centres on the Aintree Hospital site in Liverpool and Clatterbridge at Wirral, we also operate specialist chemotherapy clinics in five of Merseyside's district hospitals and deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home and Work service.
Together, working across all sites and operating a network of chemotherapy clinics, we deliver a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies. We are also the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers and host the region's Teenage and Young Adult Unit, (supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust).
At the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre we are passionate about developing our services across all our sites, ensuring that we have a sustainable workforce for the future and are proud to have been rated by the CQC as Good overall in 2019, with Outstanding for Caring.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
- To take a lead role in the development and delivery of an individual focused service to patients with reduced skin integrity and patients at risk of pressure damage.
- To provide the Trust with specialist knowledge, advice and training on management of wound care and prevention of pressure damage.
- To support, plan and implement care, provide specialist advice and maintain records acting at all times in accordance with the NMC code of conduct.
- Support research, audit, training and development.
- To take a lead in the rationalisation and standardisation of related products and equipment to ensure efficient and effective use of resources
- Maintain professional relationships with the multi-disciplinary teams within each division
Key Responsibilities
- Be highly visible in the clinical areas and role model standards of care and behaviour through clinical practice.
- Deliver strong professional leadership with the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to enable and empower staff to develop best practice in the delivery of high quality patient care.
- Challenge existing practices, ensuring that progressive solutions, which take into account models of best practice, are incorporated into business and clinical plans.
- Lead on the development of Tissue Viability policies, practice and service provision.
- Ensure that the organisation is fully compliant with all relevant legislation/guidance by implementing policies and procedures across the organisation.
- Contribute to local clinical networks and speciality specific groups, working in partnership with other key professionals.
- Participate in the analysis of relevant national policy, advice on impact for service, and lead the implementation of changes and evaluation of processes in partnership with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) across the organisation.
- Lead on co-ordination of all aspects of TV issues within the Trust in collaboration with the senior nursing team.
- Maintain professional registration and practice through Continuous Professional Development.
- Maintain personal standards of conduct and behaviour consistent with Trust and Nursing and Midwifery Council guidelines.
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritise, coordinate, monitor and assess own workload.
- Ensure appropriate use of resources in order to meet service/patient needs.
- Lead, with procurement and finance departments, to negotiate the most efficient means of rental/ leasing or purchasing, plus storage, of specialist TV equipment, including dressings.
- Advise/collaborate with procurement, pharmacy and clinical divisions on appropriate wound dressing materials in order to create a cost effective Trust formulary.
- Identify gaps in service provision and in agreement with the senior nursing team and MDT implement changes required to improve service provision
- Participate in the implementation and delivery of the standards set within the Trusts Objectives.
- Recognise, understand and accept the requirement to act as an advocate for patients, carers, service and organisation
- Prepare accurate and concise reports, both verbally and written.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
- To take a lead role in the development and delivery of an individual focused service to patients with reduced skin integrity and patients at risk of pressure damage.
- To provide the Trust with specialist knowledge, advice and training on management of wound care and prevention of pressure damage.
- To support, plan and implement care, provide specialist advice and maintain records acting at all times in accordance with the NMC code of conduct.
- Support research, audit, training and development.
- To take a lead in the rationalisation and standardisation of related products and equipment to ensure efficient and effective use of resources
- Maintain professional relationships with the multi-disciplinary teams within each division
Key Responsibilities
- Be highly visible in the clinical areas and role model standards of care and behaviour through clinical practice.
- Deliver strong professional leadership with the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to enable and empower staff to develop best practice in the delivery of high quality patient care.
- Challenge existing practices, ensuring that progressive solutions, which take into account models of best practice, are incorporated into business and clinical plans.
- Lead on the development of Tissue Viability policies, practice and service provision.
- Ensure that the organisation is fully compliant with all relevant legislation/guidance by implementing policies and procedures across the organisation.
- Contribute to local clinical networks and speciality specific groups, working in partnership with other key professionals.
- Participate in the analysis of relevant national policy, advice on impact for service, and lead the implementation of changes and evaluation of processes in partnership with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) across the organisation.
- Lead on co-ordination of all aspects of TV issues within the Trust in collaboration with the senior nursing team.
- Maintain professional registration and practice through Continuous Professional Development.
- Maintain personal standards of conduct and behaviour consistent with Trust and Nursing and Midwifery Council guidelines.
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritise, coordinate, monitor and assess own workload.
- Ensure appropriate use of resources in order to meet service/patient needs.
- Lead, with procurement and finance departments, to negotiate the most efficient means of rental/ leasing or purchasing, plus storage, of specialist TV equipment, including dressings.
- Advise/collaborate with procurement, pharmacy and clinical divisions on appropriate wound dressing materials in order to create a cost effective Trust formulary.
- Identify gaps in service provision and in agreement with the senior nursing team and MDT implement changes required to improve service provision
- Participate in the implementation and delivery of the standards set within the Trusts Objectives.
- Recognise, understand and accept the requirement to act as an advocate for patients, carers, service and organisation
- Prepare accurate and concise reports, both verbally and written.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification
- Degree Level
- Speciality qualilfication
Desirable
- Masters
- Teaching Qualification
- NMP
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive Specialist Knowledge
- Evidence of delivering teaching programmes
- Specialist knowledge of Tissue Viability systems and processes
Desirable
- Evidence of presentations at local, regional, national level.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification
- Degree Level
- Speciality qualilfication
Desirable
- Masters
- Teaching Qualification
- NMP
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive Specialist Knowledge
- Evidence of delivering teaching programmes
- Specialist knowledge of Tissue Viability systems and processes
Desirable
- Evidence of presentations at local, regional, national level.
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).
