Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Registered Nurse to join the Hampshire Tissue Viability Team.

Our mission is to provide an open and honest, holistic, collaborative, specialist tissue viability service that facilitates the highest quality, evidence-based care, which keeps our patients at the heart of everything we do.

You will be based at either Fort Southwick (PO17 6AR) or St Marys Community Health Campus (PO3 6AD), covering the Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire area. There may be occasions where you are asked to travel further within Hampshire to support service delivery or attend meetings.

Our role is to support health care professionals in clinical practice by providing teaching, information and specialist advice on tissue viability.

We provide:

• Complex wound assessment and advice
• Leg ulcer service, including lower limb assessment
• Telephone advice
• Training and education
• Supervision and competency review
• Link nurse meeting and training

The successful candidate will support patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing, while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment.

Care is based on comprehensive assessments and is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive, evidence-based and promotes independence.

The role will develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality, safety and striving to do better.

Main duties of the job

• To work within the Tissue Viability Specialist Team across a designated geographical area and support the delivery of specialist care, advice and education to a range of staff.
• To provide high levels of knowledge and skill in tissue viability care.
• To provide support to Integrated Community Care Teams, GP practices and other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team in ensuring the delivery of evidence based, high quality tissue viability care to patients.
• To work in clinic settings, patients' homes, GP surgeries and in residential care settings to support general clinical staff in providing tissue viability care
• To participate in the investigation process related to pressure ulcer incidence and provide expert input in the SI process.
• To act as a role model and expert in the prevention, treatment and care of tissue viability conditions
• Responsible for providing structured, formal and informal education through a variety of media including clinical coaching, formal teaching sessions and role modelling in all aspects of evidence-based tissue viability care.
• To support Pressure Ulcer Panels and Tissue Viability Advice Line as part of rota and cover other colleagues' area as required.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse on parts 1 or 12 of NMC register

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).