# Tissue Viability Nurse

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Hayes
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £45953.00 to £54254.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity to join the Hillingdon Tissue Viability team, implementing innovative ways of working to support complex wound care across the community. The team provides care across Hillingdon, led by a Consultant Nurse.

The successful candidate will deliver wound care and tissue viability services to complex wound clinics, patients' homes, and nursing homes across Hillingdon. Key responsibilities include:

- Providing guidance and training to nurses and healthcare professionals

- Developing and implementing care plans

- Working closely with specialist teams to ensure seamless service delivery

- Managing clinical caseloads, including physical and mental health patients with tissue viability needs

- Identifying individual and collective tissue viability needs through assessments and observations

- Prescribing and implementing evidence-based practices, including VAC, bio-surgical debridement, and intermittent pneumatic compression

- Coordinating care for individuals and their carers

- Engaging patients and carers in care planning and delivery

The post holder will work autonomously while being part of a team, demonstrating professional accountability and undertaking clinical supervision.

**Requirements:**

- RGN qualification

- Experience as a Senior Staff Nurse

- Mentorship in practice or equivalent

- Evidence of contribution to education and training programs for nursing and healthcare colleagues

- Attendance at a short leg ulcer course/wound care study days

- Worked as a tissue viability link nurse/equivalent

- Partnership working

- Knowledge of RCN/NICE/NHSI guidelines

- Multi-agency working

- Implementing evidence-based practice

**Desirable qualifications:**

- Post-registration course in wound management or leg ulcer management

- Debridement Course

- Evidence of further education in research or audit

**Essential skills:**

- Proven critical decision-making skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills

- Presentation skills and report writing

- Proven training and teaching ability

- Ability to motivate self and others

- Computer literacy in Word/Excel and EPR

- Previous leadership role

- Excellent IT skills

- Car driver with access to a car for care delivery across the community

**Salary:** £45,953 to £54,254 per annum, pro-rata per annum inc HCAS

**Contract:** Permanent, part-time

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## Skills

### Required
- Wound care
- Tissue viability
- Leadership
- Mentorship
- Education and training
- Communication
- Decision-making
- IT skills
- Driving

### Nice to have
- Electronic Patient Record
- Access programs
- Debridement Course
- Further education in research or audit

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