Job summary
Welcome to FCMS!

We are looking for a Registered Nurse (Wound Care) to join our Wound Care Service. The service is spread across clinics in Fleetwood, Freckleton and St Annes.

Pay: £15.88 - £19.33 per hour depending on experience
Hours: 22.5 hours per week permanent post
Accountable to: Lead Wound Care Nurse
Reports to: Clinical Manager for Lancashire Place Based Care

Main duties of the job
The post holder will undertake wound assessments and treatment for patients with simple wounds. Patients who will be referred to this service will be the following types:

• Post operative including suture and staple removal
• Post trauma skin tears, self-harm
• Acute wounds that require follow up
• Cavity Wounds
• Burns/scalds that require follow up
• Patient education including nutrition in relation to wound healing and scar management

There is an expectation to refer to the wider community team if required, support Senior clinicians and HCAs and attend meetings when required. The post holder will help promote the service and implement change as requested from the ICB.

Exclusion Criteria: Those patients who are: Not registered with a GP in Fylde and Wyre CCG (i.e., reside outside area) House bound Undergoing or requiring Vac Therapy patients Undergoing or requiring Larvae Therapy Doppler patients

About us
The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

We offer NHS Pension
Cycle to Work Scheme
Career Development Opportunities
Attendance Bonus
Staff Benefit Scheme
Free Tea & Coffee
Eye Care Contributions

Job responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Endeavour to maintain good standards of communication both in written and oral form.
• Assess a wound and make appropriate dressing selection for the desired plan of care within local formulary and national guidelines.
• Prescribe safely within the prescribing competency framework and undertake prescribing audits relevant to service (relevant to Non-Medical Prescribers)
• To assess patients autonomously whilst remaining within scope of practice
• Work within formally agreed arrangements where general practices provide specialised or extended clinical services (LES: Local Enhanced Services)
• Show awareness of evidence-based practice in wound care
• Improve access to wound care services
• Provide short-term care of acute wounds Provide continuity of care and a consistent approach
• Provide a comprehensive wound care management service Standardise adherence to the ICBs / Lancashire and South Cumbria wound care formulary working towards achieving an 80% compliance rate
• Improve skills and knowledge of the workforce leading to a higher standard of care
• Improve cost effective treatments
• Enhance patient outcomes and reduce secondary care activity
• Participate in promoting and implementing services to new sites when required by the ICB for the expansion of the service
• Make entries on patient records to record clinical interventions
• Make entries in the clinical notes using the service areas computer programme ADASTRA
• Complete associated documents to accompany specimens using Cyberlab where available and label specimens
• Work well within a small team
• Be flexible with working pattern across the current locations to assist with teams Annual leave / sickness to ensure the service is covered at all times
• Communicate with patients and carers in a polite and pleasant manner
• Receive and deliver patient related information to and from other departments via the telephone/ emails
• Conduct/partake in relevant audits to improve service provision
• To ensure mandatory training is up to date
• To be aware of any safeguarding issues and refer to local social services as appropriate. Staff should be trained to level 3 safeguarding through mandatory training
• To keep self-updated on practice through educational events and guidelines both local and national
• Acknowledge and accommodate barriers to communication and understanding including speech, hearing, language, and emotion
• May be required to encourage patients to comply with programmes of care
• Initiate emergency action when required
• Inform the Clinical Manager of any untoward incidents and work safely under the clinical governance framework
• Dispose of clinical waste in a safe manner
• Contribute to infection control measures by adhering to infection control policies/procedures

The above list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be fully comprehensive and may be amended to take account of changing circumstances or requirements following consultation with the post holder.

Our key expectations are:

• Self-awareness Living authentically
• Adaptability- Being ready to adjust depending on the situation
• Openness What you see is what you get
• Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible
• Generosity of spirit- Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness
• Ability to have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:

• Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!
• Awesome: We arent here to be average, were here to be awesome!
• Humble: Were here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become
• Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done
• Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious!
• Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity

Education and In Service Training

• Be fully conversant in all the clinical computer systems used within the Wound Care Service
• Attend relevant study/induction days, seminars, courses, self-development etc. for individual development and for the benefit of the service. Keep up to date with mandatory training.
• Where necessary relevant training in the operation of new or unfamiliar equipment, software or procedures will be provided or arranged.

Confidentiality
In the course of your duties, you may have access to confidential information about patients, staff or health service business. On no account must such information be divulged to anyone who is not authorised to receive it. Confidentiality of information must be always preserved whether at or away from work. FCMS has in place a Whistle blowers Policy for staff wishing to express concerns.

Data Protection Act, 1998
Carry out any requirements within the duties applicable to the Data Protection Act, 1998.

Health and Safety At Work Act, 1974
Observe all responsibilities and carry out all duties, whether general to all employees or specific to the post, relating to Health and Safety in accordance with the Practice and Departmental Safety Policies and any statutory requirements.

Clinical & Corporate Governance/Quality Assurance
All employees are expected to comply with the clinical and corporate governance arrangements of FCMS. Every employee is personally responsible for the quality of the work, and standard of care, which they individually provide. It is their duty to seek to attain the highest standards achievable both individually and collectively within their knowledge, skills and resources available to them.

Outside Employment/Outside Interests
If you have other work or outside interests, this must not conflict with your duties and responsibilities of your attendance for work as an employee of the Practice.

It is a condition of appointment that you must inform your manager before taking up of any private practice, work for outside agencies or other employers, other work for this Practice (including bank work), voluntary work or outside interests you have or propose to have. This is to ensure there is no question of it creating a conflict of interest with your NHS duties. You must also therefore seek your manager's approval before taking on any such other work or outside interest at any time after entering employment.

Working Time Directive
You are required to comply with the regulations governing working time and to any locally agreed associated arrangements.

Harassment and Bullying
The Practice condemns all forms of harassment and bullying and is actively seeking to promote a workplace where employees are treated with dignity, respect and without bias.

Equal Opportunities
In all the foregoing text any reference to one gender whether direct or implied equally includes the opposite gender unless specifically stated to be otherwise.

Fire Training
Each member of the staff has a statutory obligation to attend a Fire Lecture each year. It is the responsibility of each member of staff to ensure that they comply with this legal requirement.

No Smoking Policy
FCMS has a no smoking policy

Disability Confident Employer
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy

DBS- This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption 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. This will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence).

* Please note that our roles are not being considered for sponsorship at this time*

Person Specification
Communication
Essential

• Excellence oral and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to handle difficult situations

Desirable

• Previous experience using Adastra/SharePoint/Word/Excel

Experience
Essential

• Ability to work under pressure in intense conditions and within time constraints
• Have an understanding and awareness of CQC compliance and the essential standards of quality and safety
• Time management skills and ability to manage own case load
• Health promotion experience
• Challenges the norm and encourages team members
• Committed individual who supports others to develop change
• Good organisational and people skills
• Committed to their own personal development
• Wound care knowledge and local dressing regimes/ knowledge of national and local formulary/NICE guidance

Desirable

• Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the current issues affecting urgent and emergency care services
• Knowledge of the lower limb pathway

Qualifications
Essential

• Have an active NMC registration
• Good standards of general education
• Experience in wound care

Desirable

• Mentorship qualification
• Completed the wound care alliance training
• TVN, LU, Sharp debridement
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Teamwork
Essential

• Adaptable to service need and requirements on a day-to-day basis
• Flexible to the need of the service
• Ability to work as a team

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: FCMS
Address: FCMS, Fleetwood Urgent Treatment Centre, Dock Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 6HP, United Kingdom
Employer's website: http://www.fcms-nw.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Margaret Taylor, margaret.taylor15@nhs.net