Tissue Viability Nurse

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 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.

You will need to be a versatile, adaptable team player who has good organisational and communication skills.

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