The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Tissue Viability Nurse
The Tissue Viability Nurse (TVN) works as part of the Tissue Viability Team to deliver specialist, evidence-based care relating to skin integrity and wound management. The role involves assessing patients, planning and implementing tailored care, and providing expert advice to staff, patients, and carers to support the prevention and management of complex wounds. The TVN also supports clinical practice through education, training, and supervision of staff and students, whilst maintaining accurate clinical records and carrying out specialist procedures, including the use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy. In addition, the role contributes to service improvement through leading clinical audits and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to plan, deliver, and evaluate care for patients referred to the service.
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- Independently provides holistic, pressure ulcer risk assessment, leg ulcer assessment, and wound assessments for individuals with health impairment, facilitating the identification of adverse conditions that impair tissue health.
- Reach reliable and comprehensive patient-centered conclusions, which manage risk and are appropriate to need, context, culture, and ethnicity.
- Prioritize work within a climate of competing demands of clinical and service development requirements.
- Proactively and directly imparts knowledge and shares skills.
- Participates on the auditing relating to Tissue Viability.
- Facilitate the dissemination of appropriate research findings to the clinicians within the Trust ensuring clinical nursing activities are evidence-based.
- Critically reviews research findings, which relate to Tissue Viability practice and where appropriate sharing this information in clinical teaching sessions thereby promoting a culture of Evidence-Based Practice.
- To be aware of current trends in nursing and in the NHS and be able to translate into practice; for example, the 6 Cs.
- Maintain own professional portfolio.
- Maintain, progress, and develop personal theoretical knowledge, high standards of clinical competence, and professional development through ongoing self-education and attendance at relevant courses of study.
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About the Trust
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics, and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment center, a minor injuries unit, and outpatient clinics.
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The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities, community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighboring hospitals, and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals provide high-quality, safe, and compassionate care, while driving forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.
We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Daisy Culaj
- Job Title: Harm Free & Tissue Viability Lead Nurse
- Email Address: daisy.culaj@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 1895238282
Adelaide Seemann
Senior Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Email Address: adelaide.seemann@nhs.net
- Job Reference: 53824
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