Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Plastics Nurse Practitioner
Aylesbury
Posted 1 day ago
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**Job Title:** Plastics Nurse Specialist
**Location:** Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
**About the Role:**
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Plastics Nurse Specialist to join our dressings clinic, providing expert wound care and dressing management to patients following plastic and reconstructive surgery. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled nurse to work within a specialist team, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to individuals recovering from a range of procedures including burns, skin grafts, flap reconstructions, and post-surgical wounds.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- **Wound Assessment & Management and Post-Operative Care**
- Assessing surgical wounds, flaps, grafts, and donor sites for healing progress, infection, dehiscence, or complications
- Selecting and applying appropriate dressings based on wound type, exudate level, and healing stage
- Removing sutures, staples, drains
- Identifying early signs of complications (infection, flap failure, haematoma, seroma) and escalating to the surgical team promptly
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Patient Education & Support
- Advising patients and carers on wound care, dressing changes, and signs of complications to watch for at home
- Explaining ongoing treatment plans and what to expect during recovery
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Clinical Procedures
- Performing minor procedures such as suture/clip removal, wound debridement, or simple dressing changes independently
- Taking wound swabs and liaising with microbiology when infection is suspected
- Administering local treatments and, in some settings, prescribing (if a qualified nurse prescriber)
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Documentation & Coordination
- Maintaining accurate clinical records, wound photography for tracking progress, and outcome measures
- Liaising with the multidisciplinary team (surgeons, tissue viability nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists.
- Scheduling and coordinating follow-up appointments
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Clinic Management
- Running nurse-led clinics independently for routine post-op follow-up, freeing up surgeon time for more complex cases
- Ensuring infection control standards and aseptic non-touch technique (ANTT) are maintained
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Why Join Us?
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What We Offer:
- Learning and development opportunities to support your career progression
- Flexible and agile working opportunities
- Generous annual leave entitlement, pension, and access to NHS discount schemes
- Health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce
Our Values:
- Committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong
- Encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply
- Value differences and ensure colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect
- A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community
Our Vision & Mission:
- Vision: To provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Mission: To provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Care values: Collaborate, aspire, respect, and enable.
Contact Information:
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Zoe Avent
- Job Title: Lead ACP Plastic Surgery
- Email Address: zoe.avent@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 01296 418215
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Skills
Wound Care
Dressing Management
Patient Education
Surgical Wound Assessment
Post-Operative Care
Minor Procedures
Clinical Documentation
Multidisciplinary Team Coordination
Infection Control
Patient-Centered Care
Communication Skills
Problem Solving
Time Management
Compassionate Care
Aseptic Technique