Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse
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Exciting Opportunity for 2.2 Band 6 Tissue Viability Specialist Nurses
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2.2 Band 6 Tissue Viability Specialist Nurses within Northumbria Healthcare’s ever evolving Tissue Viability Team across both the community and acute services.
About the Role
The successful candidate/s will provide families, carers and professionals with education within the field of Tissue Viability.
- Work with patients with complex Tissue Viability conditions, optimising treatment and facilitating diagnosis and appropriate referral to other specialties.
- Review patients in the complex wound clinics, lymphoedema and lower limb clinics, their own home or during admission to hospital.
- Assist with appropriate selection of pressure redistributing equipment for patients at risk or management of pressure damage.
- Provide advice on specialist equipment and dressing selection.
The Tissue Viability team embeds research into everyday practice and are highly research active with a large portfolio of studies.
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The successful candidate/s will also be highly involved in audit, research and innovation and will assist in the delivery of the research portfolio.
This is a great opportunity to be part of an experienced and committed service in a forward-thinking organisation and make a tangible difference to those struggling with a range of Tissue Viability conditions.
Organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
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Application Information
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Laura Spence
- Job Title: Clinical Lead Tissue Viability
- Email Address: laura.spence@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 07855072865
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