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Job overview
Are you passionate about improving patient outcomes in wound care and skin integrity? Do you thrive on leading teams, driving innovation, and delivering high standards of care? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to make a significant impact by delivering expert leadership, clinical practice, education, training and research/audit in the prevention, care and management of patients with pressure ulcers and wounds.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for leading pressure ulcer/wound care management ensuring safe, effective, evidence-based practice in accordance with national/international guidance e.g. NICE; NPUAP and EPUAP and local guidance within the Trust wound care/pressure ulcer policies and procedures.
The post holder will be an expert resource for the Trust ensuring seamless care transitioning across inpatient and community services within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven and will be expected to display high levels of competence, professional judgement, integrity and personal accountability. The post holder will improve and maintain standards of patient care through development, implementation and continuous evaluation of quality improvement initiatives, protocols and policies. Leading on design and delivery of training and education in both mandatory and bespoke programmes throughout the Trust will be a core responsibility.
The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, and is not directly supervised. They will manage the team to include duty rotas; delegation; PDRs; sickness and absence and team development opportunities. Developing business plans to embed cost effectiveness whilst ensuring effective service delivery will be a key activity informing service improvement.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
* Cycle to Work
* Travel Scheme
* Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
* Onsite Nursery
* Buying and Selling Annual Leave
* Car Leasing
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Employee Health and Wellbeing
* Extensive Reward Scheme
* Counselling Service
* Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
* Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
* Committed to Quality of Care
* Compassion
* Working together for patients
* Improving Lives
* Everyone Counts
* Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Leadership
· Assess current treatments practices; maximise cost effectiveness while improving outcomes.
· Provide expert advice and act as a resource for all aspects of tissue viability, including clinical and professional advice.
· Design and deliver education and training relating to tissue viability to all levels of staff and professional disciplines.
· Influence and lead quality care for patients with complex wounds and pressure damage.
· Lead the Trust review of the wound care formulary and associated products.
· Support the investigation of acquired pressure ulcers, participating in learning and serious incidents involving pressure ulcers.
· Provide expert advice to Safeguarding Teams in relation to pressure ulcer incidence and management.
· Liaise with Clinical Leaders in actioning learning from adverse incidents.
· Support the effective and efficient management of pressure relieving equipment across the trust in conjunction with MDT.
· Support the development and implementation of systems for the audit of pressure ulcers and wound care.
· Dissemination of learning from audit to support best practice.
· Work with Bradford Community Tissue Viability Team to ensure a coordinated approach to tissue viability services across the acute hospital and community.
· Liaise with staff working in primary care, hospital, social and caring services and the voluntary sector as required.
· Develop effective working relationships with other clinical and non-clinical staff, patients, carers and relatives.
· Act as a positive role model and ambassador throughout the trust and beyond by identifying and upholding the value that tissue viability adds to the care of patients.
· Lead the tissue viability team to ensure effective quality service to patients.
Clinical Practice
· Act as a clinical role model, which reflects the philosophy, beliefs and clinical standards of the Trust.
· Provide a specialist nursing resource in the management of patients with compromised tissue viability, both chronic and acute, and provide advice to other health professionals, patients, carers and relatives.
· Make and receive referrals for patients with compromised tissue viability, from nurses, general practitioners, consultants and other health professionals.
· Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care utilising advanced knowledge, skills, research and developments in tissue viability practice.
· Undertake comprehensive assessments of complex wound management/tissue viability needs.
· Establish care management plans for staff to implement.
· Provide education, advice, and support on wound management to staff both inside and outside the trust.
· Support and promote the use of managed systems for mattresses, ensuring appropriate distribution and use in clinical areas, including the use of E-trace.
· Provide specialist advice and support relating to the purchasing and commissioning of tissue viability resources and their use in practice.
· Support the Assistant Director of Nursing and Patient Safety in the identification and monitoring of risks associated with the introduction of new treatments.
· Influence effective multidisciplinary teamwork and communication to deliver coordinated, seamless care between acute and community services.
· Promote the interests of Trust at professional meetings and national conferences.
· Manage and review the stock of specialist tissue viability equipment and dressings.
· Adhere to Trust infection prevention and uniform policies in the interests of ensuring best practice in infection prevention and control.
Management
· Promote and maintain a supportive, collaborative team working environment.
· Contribute to the current and projected service plans identifying gaps and advising management on the level of service provision.
· Support strategies for wound management; contribute to objectives and targets in line with agreed budgets and resources.
· Manage the budget for specialist dressings and equipment.
· Improve multidisciplinary collaboration through effective communication with all health care professionals within the multidisciplinary team.
· Promote and market the activities of the tissue viability service both internally and externally, contributing to the sharing of good practice.
· Prepare, collate and write reports, as required.
Education and training
· Identify educational needs of staff, patients and carers, develop and deliver programs ensuring they are in accordance with the trusts policies, procedures, national practice guidelines and local standards.
· Develop and deliver education and training programs as the needs of the service dictate.
· Establish and maintain links with appropriate academic institutions.
· Promote and implement evidence based practice within the clinical environment, according to national and local guidelines, standards and protocols.
· Contribute to, and develop income generation opportunities through clinical support and education to external health care organisations and agencies e.g. prison telemedicine.
· Support and embed a culture of training and education within the tissue viability team.
· Maintain own practice assurance via clinical supervision and advanced practice framework as defined by the Trust.
Audit and Research
· Initiate and engage in the Trust’s audit program.
· Lead on audits relating to tissue viability e.g. pressure ulcer prevalence, mattress audits, incidence of acquired pressure ulcers prior to admission etc.
· Liaise with wards and departments to participate in audits and evaluate clinical practice to ensure quality care.
· Monitor the implementation of treatment and prevention policies relevant to tissue viability.
· Utilise audit data and analysis systems to produce reports to support learning and to provide assurance through clinical governance.
· Liaise and consult with the Assistant Chief Nurse; Divisional Directors of Nursing, Clinical Leads and Matrons to develop and design changes in practice following audit and research findings.
· Actively promote and participate in the Trust risk assessment framework.
Clinical Governance
· Proactively engage in ongoing audits and research, utilising research findings to ensure patients with tissue viability needs receive evidence based health care.
· Ensure nurses are practicing in accordance with national and Trust policies, guidelines, procedures and standards.
· Promote evidence based practice across the Tissue Viability Service.
· Update Trust Policies and Guidelines, as required.
Person specification
Experience
* Significant post registration experience within a tissue viability environment.
* Continued experience of being able to exercise initiative and take independent actions.
* Experience of partnership working including interprofessional and multi-agency working.
* Broad base of experience working with adults and families in secondary and/or primary care.
* Working with patients with complex wounds.
* Effective report writing / presentation skills.
* Experience of undertaking audit and review.
* Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
* Evidence of contributing to service development.
* Evidence of attending tissue viability training and conferences.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse.
* Evidence of post graduate study.
* MSc in TV.
* Evidence of management training/experience.
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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