Tissue Viability Nurse

The clinical responsibilities will include the provision of evidenced based wound care, utilising holistic assessment, care planning, implementation and by defining, monitoring outcomes of care and service provision. This will include complex packages of care and complex clinical decision making where appropriate.
Close working, co-ordination and liaison with other service providers is required to ensure that patients are able to remain within their own homes.
Work in partnership to ensure all treatments and wound care strategies are evidence-based and cost effective., To develop evidenced based wound care plans to meet the individual patient's complex health and social needs ensuring that they are regularly reviewed and updated.
Support the introduction and use of technical nursing treatments utilising a robust evidenced based approach to ensure the most effective care.
Prescribe products to meet the needs of the patients within the allocated caseload utilising your non medical prescribing qualification and own prescribing skills. Ensuring that you prescribe within your sphere of competence.
Supports patients with complex wounds who have repeated hospital admission to develop their knowledge and understanding about their health and well being to enable self management within individual abilities.
To offer clinical practice advice and professional support to the community nursing and podiatry teams.
To ensure that sound clinical guidance is given to community staff.
To undertake the delegation of the clinical workload to Community Staff Nurses and Health Care Assistants ensuring they are competent to undertake the clinical wound care duties delegated to them.
To raise orders for stock, supplies and ordering clinical equipment (utilising the online Medequip system (Greenwich) or via Inspire Community Stores (Bexley)) to ensure that clinical management plans are implemented.
Make independent referrals for diagnostic tests and or opinions and care requirements via open and informed discussions with a range of Clinicians and specialists.
Provide clinically based education and training programmes to patients and staff either on an individual or group basis.
To work at all times within the NMC Professional Code of Conduct being accountable for own professional action and to undertake regular clinical supervision.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
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We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic registered nurse with community experience to join our Complex Wound Care team . This post is to identify, assess and signpost patients with complex wounds within the allocated caseload, working with GPs and the wider multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder will be based at 181 Goldie Leigh and will be expected to travel within the borough of Greenwich, delivering care to patient's in their own homes, care homes and in community clinic settings.
You will need to be a versatile, adaptable team player who has good organisational and communication skills.

Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
+ We're Kind
+ We're Fair
+ We Listen
+ We Care