Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required. This may be because agreement or co-operation is required or because there are barriers to understanding.Communicates highly sensitive, confidential information e.g. safeguarding/public protection suspected patient abuse or sexually transmitted diseases /clients requiring empathy, persuasion and reassurance, e.g. Life limiting and or life changing information.To operationally manage the Tissue Viability Team throughout Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, reporting to the TVN lead. Working closely with health care professionals from primary and secondary care settings, patients and their representative groups.To provide specialist advice and clinical expertise in all aspects of tissue viability to practitioners within the organisation and healthcare community with a particular focus on reduction of harm from pressure and lower limb management.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First Level Registered Nurse
• Specialist Tissue Viability qualification, (Degree or Masters level or on pathway)
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Teaching and assessing qualification.

Desirable

• Nurse Prescriber qualification
• Leadership qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in an acute setting within this speciality.
• High level of expertise in the assessment and management of issues relating to Tissue Viability
• Experience of driving change and innovation developing or improving Tissue Viability care
• Mentor for both pre and post reg. students.

Desirable

• Experience of working within Tissue viability across primary and secondary care.
• Experience of implementing quality improvement initiatives
• Implementing and developing local, regional or national audits, reporting the outcomes according to agreed standards.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

GWH

Marlborough street

Swindon

SN3 6BB

Employer's website

https://www.gwh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)