Plastic Clinical Nurse Specialist

Acting within the Trust's Plastic clinical nurse specialist outreach service you will provide expert tailored wound care treatment, advice, consultation, support, training and guidance to patients, carers and referring trusts. You will work as a highly skilled autonomous practitioner liaising and supporting multi-professional teams, both within QVH, across all NHS trusts in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and within GP services. You will need a high level of wound care knowledge and the ability to be flexible in your approach to the work as this department working closely with patients and other trusts providing education for acute inpatient teams and community nursing teams., You will be expected to visit patients in all environments offering specialist wound care advice to other healthcare professionals, carry out wound care checks and treatments for QVH patients.

A large part of this role is collaboration with other healthcare professionals, clinicians and nurses, imparting your knowledge and experience to provide the best care for the patient and their wound. Providing other professionals and service users with education and learning is essential.

Other duties include to develop the service for the future ensuring sustainable growth whilst maintaining standards of specialist care. Innovate and change current practice through the delivery of appropriate education and training to meet service needs.

At times it is necessary to work closely with the Burns Outreach specialist nurse to manage patients appropriately, gain support and advice and to ensure continuity of care for all patients accessing both plastics and burns outreach services.

Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond.

We specialise in conditions of the eyes (corneoplastics), hands, head and neck cancer and skin cancer, reconstructive breast surgery, maxillofacial surgery and prosthetics, providing regional and national services in these areas of clinical expertise.Our world-leading clinical teams also treat more common conditions of the eyes, hands, skin, and teeth for the people of East Grinstead and the surrounding areas. In addition, QVH provides a minor injuries unit, expert therapies, a sleep service, and a growing portfolio of community-based services.Patients consistently rate QVH amongst the top hospitals in the country for quality of care.

Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.