Job summary
Are you passionate about wound care and looking for an opportunity to develop your specialist knowledge and make a real difference to patients and clinicians across Oxfordshire?We are a friendly, enthusiastic and dedicated Tissue Viability Team and are excited to welcome a Senior Tissue Viability Nurse to join us. This is a varied and rewarding community-based role, offering the opportunity to develop your specialist tissue viability skills while working alongside an experienced and supportive team.No two days are quite the same. Our service works across the community, providing specialist advice and support to clinicians caring for people with complex wound and tissue viability needs. You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with a wide range of professionals, share your expertise through education and clinical support and help teams deliver high-quality, evidence-based care closer to patients' homes. The role also provides opportunities to contribute to quality improvement, innovation, education, research and the ongoing development of our tissue viability service.We are looking for someone who shares our enthusiasm for improving wound care, enjoys working collaboratively and is keen to develop as a specialist practitioner and leader. In return, you will join a team that values new ideas, learning and professional development and where you will be encouraged to contribute to shaping and improving tissue viability care across our service.

Main duties of the job
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About us
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Person Specification
Knowledge requirements
Essential

• A sound knowledge of a wide range of wound care issues
• A sound knowledge of the factors affecting wound healing
• Knowledge of practice-based audit
• Sound knowledge of current professional issues in nursing and health care

Desirable

• Working knowledge of the organisation

Qualifications
Essential

• RGN
• Educated to degree level, with willingness to study at level 7 and/or undertake additional specialist learning appropriate for the role
• Teaching qualification i.e. City and Guilds 730, ENB 998 or relevant experience and skills
• Evidence of ongoing professional and education development

Desirable

• Formal additional qualifications/training, or evidence and level 7

Training or Job-Aptitude and Skills
Essential

• Current and competent practitioner
• Demonstrable leadership skills
• Ability to work therapeutically with older people
• Excellent coordinator, facilitator, educator and written and verbal communicator
• Well organised
• Good time management
• Established computer skills
• Ability to work strategically in the ongoing development of the service

Desirable

• Research skills (or ability to critically analyse evidence)
• Active member of Tissue Viability Link/Resource Nurse group

Experience
Essential

• Leadership qualities and experience of leading/managing staff
• Wide portfolio of relevant experience/achievements relating to wound healing
• Experience of multi-agency and partnership working
• Has managed change and practice development
• Experience of facilitating learning

Desirable

• Involvement in nursing research/audit
• Actively involved in tissue viability project (i.e. product evaluations, wound formulary etc.)
• Project management
• Experience of working within a tissue viability team
• Experience of working in a leg ulcer clinic or wound clinic

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Autonomous practitioner
• Proactive and innovative
• Motivation and enthusiasm
• Commitment to delivering and facilitating high standards of patient care

Contractual Requirements
Essential

• Ability to travel independently between sites and to regional meetings
• To be flexible with work hours to suit the needs of the service
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults
• Ability to attend conferences to update their knowledge base

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).