Job summary
An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen to join Nottinghamshire Healthcare as a Nurse Consultant in Tissue Viability & Wound Management. Our specialist team covers a wide variety of clinical services, giving you the chance to innovate and lead exceptional practice in wound management and prevention strategies.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will clinically lead the Specialist Tissue Viability team, who support Community, Inpatient, Mental health, Forensic Mental Health, Offender Health and Childrens Services. You will be responsible for the development and delivery of excellence in wound management across our services - setting the clinical standards, developing the teaching and research & development activity, using evidence to advance practice as well as spending a proportion of your time in clinical practice managing complex wound presentations. You will help us embed a learning and inquisitive approach, ensuring we are at the forefront of clinical practice. You will be an expert in wound management, with recognised post graduate skills and qualifications, including non medical prescribing.
The job description is pending AfC job evaluation.
About us
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Consulant Nurse will develop practice and expertise in 4 main areas -
Expert Practice
Strategic Leadership
Learning, developing and providing education
Research & innovation
Job description details the wider responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Consulant Nurse will develop practice and expertise in 4 main areas -
Expert Practice
Strategic Leadership
Learning, developing and providing education
Research & innovation
Job description details the wider responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Speciality specific post graduate qualification in wound management
- Masters Degree in relevant field
- Evidence of advanced clinical assessment
- Registered non-medical prescriber (v300)
- Formal leadership development certification
- Research methodology course and experience
- Developed analytical and numeracy skills
- Sharp debridement qualification & experience
- Post graduate teaching qualification (or included in degree / Masters)
- Lower leg management qualification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Robust understanding of the current Specialist Wound Care assessment, management, and provision by Multi-Disciplinary Teams working across all sectors service by the Trust.
- Excellent communication skills highly developed interpersonal skills, including negotiation, facilitation influencing and presentation skills and evidence of ability to engage with staff and stake holders at all levels
- Management knowledge gained through experience and continuous professional development
- Extensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards in the Health Care Agenda
- Knowledge and experience of needs assessment and analysis/interpretation of related data
- Research methods and participation in research
Experience
Essential
- Experienced nurse with significant experience in a senior clinical/management role
- Professional, leadership and managerial experience within speciality ( this may include wound management, vascular nursing, district nursing, dermatology) that demonstrates the E E Nursing 874 v1.2 Jan 2023 required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently
- Experience of assessing training needs
- Experience of resource management i.e. financial; human; capital
- Experience in Service planning, project management and performance monitoring/reporting, quality improvement
- Experience in Mental Health, Community and Forensics Nursing
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Speciality specific post graduate qualification in wound management
- Masters Degree in relevant field
- Evidence of advanced clinical assessment
- Registered non-medical prescriber (v300)
- Formal leadership development certification
- Research methodology course and experience
- Developed analytical and numeracy skills
- Sharp debridement qualification & experience
- Post graduate teaching qualification (or included in degree / Masters)
- Lower leg management qualification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Robust understanding of the current Specialist Wound Care assessment, management, and provision by Multi-Disciplinary Teams working across all sectors service by the Trust.
- Excellent communication skills highly developed interpersonal skills, including negotiation, facilitation influencing and presentation skills and evidence of ability to engage with staff and stake holders at all levels
- Management knowledge gained through experience and continuous professional development
- Extensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards in the Health Care Agenda
- Knowledge and experience of needs assessment and analysis/interpretation of related data
- Research methods and participation in research
Experience
Essential
- Experienced nurse with significant experience in a senior clinical/management role
- Professional, leadership and managerial experience within speciality ( this may include wound management, vascular nursing, district nursing, dermatology) that demonstrates the E E Nursing 874 v1.2 Jan 2023 required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently
- Experience of assessing training needs
- Experience of resource management i.e. financial; human; capital
- Experience in Service planning, project management and performance monitoring/reporting, quality improvement
- Experience in Mental Health, Community and Forensics Nursing
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).
