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Main area: Tissue Viability Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract: Permanent Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Various working patterns will be considered) Job ref: 825-6828070-OPS
Site: Multi-site working Town: Telford Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum / Pro Rata Salary period: Yearly Closing: 27/12/2024 23:59
Job overview
Are you dedicated to providing exceptional nursing care in a Wound Clinic environment? Do you find wound healing and the aetiology intriguing? Are you seeking a new challenge to enhance your knowledge and skills while contributing to a service committed to excellence in wound care?
We are thrilled to announce that we have vacancies for motivated and passionate nurses to join us at our Wound Healing Service Team in Telford and Shropshire. Our team is professional, skilled, friendly and supportive, and we prioritise safety while delivering high quality, holistic, evidence-based wound care to our patients.
By joining our supportive and dedicated team, you will have the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge of wound healing to provide optimum care for patients with a wide variety of wounds. There will be training provided to enhance your skills to enable you to work as an independent clinician providing high quality patient care, as well as opportunities for further academic learning and support for your career development.
Main duties of the job
* Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating wound care for patients.
* Provide a plan of care using trust policies and pathways for guidance whilst utilising local formularies.
* Provide holistic assessment of patients' needs making onward referrals where required.
* Ensure safeguarding needs are met and escalate where indicated, ensuring IPC policies and protocols are followed to ensure ongoing patient safety.
* Support junior staff and students in achieving their learning outcomes.
* Liaise with senior nurse, Tissue Viability, GP's, and wider MDT where required.
* Participate in audits to ensure ongoing quality and improvement within the service.
* Participate in ordering of clinic stock and dressing supplies, ensuring stock rotation to avoid waste of resources.
* Support senior nurse and cover when needed.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
* RGN
* NMC Registered
* Ability to demonstrate a level of English Language and grammar commensurate with writing in service user case notes
Other
* Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post
Experience
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary / multi-agency health/social care environment
* Experience and knowledge of basic administration systems including Microsoft Office
* Experience of successful partnership working arrangements with other services
* Previous community/wound care/tissue viability experience
Knowledge and Skills
* Engaging and empowering approach that seeks to work with others and deliver outcomes in a successful and well-informed manner
* Uses evidence-based practice
* Works within own defined competencies
* Ability to communicate complex and distressing information to patients and their carers in a sensitive and supportive way at a level they can understand
* Work autonomously, in line with scope of practice, competence and policies
* IT Skills
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received; we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
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