Clinical Nurse Specialist Tissue Viability

Job summary

The clinical nurse specialist will participate in the provision and delivery of a specialist Trust wide tissue viability service.Including Manging the tissue viability team and providing specialist clinical advice and support.

The post holder will be required to work closely with the multidisciplinary team and also work autonomously, exercising clinical expertise in tissue viability. They must also possess knowledge and skills in clinical risk assessment and evaluation, pressure ulcer prevention strategies, management of complex wounds, change management and the provision of staff support and training across organisational and professional boundaries.

The post holder will also be required to participate in formal and informal education and relevant audit activities.

Main duties of the job

To manage, develop and provide a tissue viability service in a variety of Primary Care settings including residential homes, nursing homes, GP surgeries, and home.

To provide service that is evidence-based, patient centred and appropriate to patients and their relatives & carers needs.

To work as a specialist, in the management of patients with compromised tissue viability. Demonstrating a higher level of knowledge and practice to provide expertise to all healthcare professionals, patients and their carers in the Trust and to external organisations.

To be responsible for providing a high standard of specialist tissue viability patient-centred nursing care through on-going assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care working.

To be recognised as a skilled practitioner in Tissue Viability by colleague by demonstrating and sharing skills and knowledge to enhance patient care.

Be aware of ethical dilemmas in patient care, acting as patients advocate, and be able to convey to patients and carers the best plan of treatment.

Be able to act as key worker for each individual patient.

Communicate and collaborate effectively with other agencies, statutory and voluntary to ensure a seamless service and continuity of patient care.

Refer to other professional for more specialist advice as appropriate. For example, vascular surgeons, Podiatry, Orthotics, other CNSs n order to effectively plan and co-ordinate patient care.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence