University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist
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Job Summary
The Tissue Viability Service at UHB Community provides expert wound management, clinical support, and advice to staff caring for patients with a wide range of tissue integrity problems.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a registered nurse with a passion for wound care to join our team. The successful applicant would participate in delivering the team's strategy and improving staff knowledge and skills in pressure ulcer prevention and complex wound management.
The applicant should have advanced communication skills, be willing to teach, and be able to support teams and clinical areas in the introduction of new practices.
The core service days and hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. The successful candidate will be required to work across all the UHB Community sites. This vacancy is part-time, for 30 hours per week.
Being a car driver and having access to a car is essential for this post.
For any further information, please email Paula Hale, UHB Community Lead Tissue Viability Nurse on SolihullCommunityTissueViability@uhb.nhs.uk.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
- Provide specialist nursing advice and support for patients, carers, and staff.
- Provide formal and informal education to staff and patients.
- Devise and deliver a range of educational and training packages.
- Support allocated Clinical Delivery Group within the organisation.
- Assist with clinical development in maintaining and improving all aspects of clinical governance, evidence-based practice, quality assurance, and monitoring within the service.
- Assist with service audits/activities.
- Assist with monitoring standards of clinical practice, audit, research, and teaching to continually improve standards of care and patient experience.
- Ensure safe and effective clinical practice.
- Enhance patient experience.
- Ensure effective delivery of service/organisational objectives.
- Assist with the development/update of policies and guidelines.
Key Skills
- Post registration knowledge, experience, and qualification.
- Tissue Viability knowledge.
- Career/professional development.
- Teaching/mentorship experience.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross-agency work environment.
- Willingness to achieve competence in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices.
- Evidence of change management.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care.
- Ability to work under pressure and adapt behavior.
- Awareness of current relevant NHS policy.
- Knowledge of corporate, clinical governance, and safeguarding.
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About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value, and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values-driven in all that we do, and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such, we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long-term health condition, mental health, or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- Portfolio of certified/accredited post-registration professional development.
Desirable
- Health Assessment postgraduate qualification/willingness to work towards.
Experience
Essential
- Post-registration experience with evidence of knowledge and development for the associated area of specialist practice.
- In-depth knowledge of specialist procedures required for the role, with willingness to undertake further training/education to achieve the agreed level of competence.
- Knowledge of standards and policies associated with the role.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary and cross-agency work environment.
- Demonstrable understanding of clinical governance/patient safety processes -- can relate this to the role in relation to their personal/professional accountability.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Excellent written, verbal communication skills.
- Consistently professional, collaborative, and compassionate in their approach to colleagues/patients.
- Effective people skills including a high degree of self-awareness/self-regulation.
- Ability to understand, interpret, and critically analyze information/data and develop skills in reporting.
- Ability to recognize limits of own competence and seek advice/support, escalating concerns as required.
- Ability to apply, evaluative, and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
- Ability to plan, prioritize workload in response to service need.
- Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload and developing skills, knowledge, and competence.
- Ability to work towards autonomous enhanced practice through exposure, supervised practice to a preset level of clinical competence.
- Ability to apply, evaluative, and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
- Ability to contribute to service development.
- Acts to support and enable teamwork.
- Cheerful outlook towards supporting organizational/service changes, learning, and continuous quality improvement.
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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.
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.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information, please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Paula Hale
07919298885
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9018107
Job locations
Solihull Community Nursing
Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road
Solihull
West Midlands
B90 4BN
Attachments
Job Description
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