Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse

This role is based within the acute trust offering cross cover across two sites of around 1337 bedsand some outpatient departments. Patients tend to be of mixed ages across all specialities, rangingfrom neonates to elderly care.

The Tissue Viability Nurse is required to have a sound knowledge of wound care and wound aetiology to facilitate assessment and management of complex wounds.

Assist the Senior Clinical Tissue Viability specialist with the day to day running of the Tissue viability service., This role includes delivery of ward based education and the identification of hospital acquired pressure ulcers with recognition of lapses, lead on the management of pressure ulcer prevention across the organisation including where necessary the management of incontinence where this impacts of skin integrity.

Assess, plan and implement care for patients with acute/chronic wounds.

The Tissue Viability Nurse is required to support/lead on product evaluations and the production and implementation of new pathways/guidelines

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.