A Vacancy at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking to recruit a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability to work within our team to provide best practice and education and support in all elements of wound care.
As a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability, we require you to have experience in managing complex wounds of different aetiologies.
You will manage the Colchester Acute team of Tissue Viability Nurses delivering specialist education and training to other health care professionals and students.
You will lead the team in ensuring the delivery of a high quality, evidence based, Tissue Viability Service.
• To work as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability at Ipswich Hospital by providing expert specialist advice on tissue viability issues through both direct and indirect patient care. The role will also require cross site working at Colchester Hospital and in the Community, working with the other Harm Free Care Leads at ESNEFT to drive strategic improvement specific to Tissue Viability
• To facilitate evidence based practice on wound management, the prevention and management of pressure ulcers and patient requiring Topical Negative Pressure Therapy.
• Monitor and improve patient outcomes relating to tissue viability through pressure ulcer incidence & pressure relieving equipment audits.
• To assist with the co-ordination and provision of tissue viability education throughout ESNEFT.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details oftheresponsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 19 Dec 2024