Band 5 Tissue Viability Nurse

This is a 12 month fixed term role. As a Tissue Viability Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care and services to support individuals and teams. Working within a collaborative environment, you will provide essential services tailored to meet the unique needs of those we serve. Based at The Orbital Centre, Swindon, you will have the flexibility to work within a model that supports both on-site and hybrid working arrangements, depending on the nature of the role. HCRG Care Group is committed to fostering an agile and adaptable workforce to best meet the needs of our organization and service users.

Main duties of the job

Prioritise and manage own clinical case load within the context of the total Tissue Viability service delivery - as directed by the Tissue Viability Nurse /Specialist. Undertake patient assessments in a variety of care settings within sphere of competence. To advise on changes to care and assessed patient needs to the nurse with care management responsibility in order to support staff to develop appropriate clinical management plans. Effectively escalate complex tissue viability needs, conditions, and situations outside of current knowledge and skill level. Recognising situations that may be detrimental to the health and well-being of the patient and their family/carer. Liaison with multi-disciplinary teams in all care settings and external organisations in order to achieve partnership working, pathway adherence and expert care.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit our website.

Job responsibilities

As a Band 5 Community Nurse, you'll be part of our valued team at the Swindon Community Tissue Viability Team.

You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• AFC Band 5 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

Minimum Requirements

Registered Nurse RN (Adult) first level registration

Post registration experience of working within a community setting (Minimum 6 months)

Experience of supporting caseload management.

Experience of developing and providing educational sessions to others.

Experience of planning care

Effective time keeping and management

Understanding of all community services.

Competent in the use of SystmOne, in particular live.

Accurate and contemporaneous record keeping.

Knowledge of current Tissue Viability pathways and policies.

Ability to document and communicate comprehensive information to assist in the care planning of patients with complex needs.

Compliant with internal tissue viability education and training.

Able to demonstrate a passion for tissue viability.

Outcome driven in clinical practice

Willing to work in other areas of the Trust or Trust-wide as and when required to do so.

Able to travel daily across the geographical area.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.