Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist - Tissue Viability Lead

Job Summary

Solihull Hospital delivers in and out of hospital services and provides vital services to communities who rely on us for care and support.

Key to this is the Tissue Viability Community Service - this specialist service provides clinical expertise for both wound prevention and wound healing.

Our community team provides optimum care to improve patient outcomes in wound care and skin integrity to enable effective healing and prevention of reoccurrence.

We do this through delivering specialist assessment and treatment plans and/or educating the community workforce to ensure assessment and care are provided in line with national best practice standards.

After 10 years in post our current Clinical Nurse Specialist Lead for Tissue Viability is open for applications. With the full support of the Directors of Nursing, we are seeking a passionate leader whose clinical skills can harness and facilitate wider community and stakeholder engagement.

If you're motivated by what you have read, you have the experience to make a difference and have a passion to provide the very best care to our patients and support our colleagues, we would love to hear from you. You can simply apply via this advert or drop us an email at kellie.owen@uhb.nhs.uk and we'll arrange a meeting with the Team.

Main Duties of the Job

Through partnership working and the delivery of training and education, you will develop and empower staff in all aspects of tissue viability related care to enable them to deliver the highest standard of holistic care to patients. The team enables community health professionals to become safe, competent, evidence-based practitioners in the prevention and management of wounds. The lead will work as part of the multidisciplinary team with the aim of providing ongoing support to patients with wounds within the community setting as well as preventing admission and supporting early discharge.

You will inspire, influence, and motivate this critical workforce to promote excellence in professional practice and will lead quality and safety standards to ensure our patients continue to receive the very best care.

This is an amazing opportunity within a leadership team who inspire, encourage and support a healthy work-life balance where you can be assured you are listened to and heard.

On joining the team, you can be assured of a warm and friendly welcome from the entire Solihull Team -- where you will embrace values of Kind, Connected and Bold, whilst delivering first-class patient care which underpins everything we do.

About Us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

1. Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
2. Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Date Posted: 08 April 2025

Pay Scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: Part-time, Flexible working

Reference Number: 304-9007813

Job Locations: Solihull Community Nursing, Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4BN

Job Responsibilities:

*Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential:

• Registered Adult / Child Nurse on the NMC Register.
• Evidence of post-registration CPD / Post-registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or professional knowledge supplemented by specialist experience and short courses to degree / masters level equivalent FHEQ Level 6 / 7.
• Recognised mentorship course.
• Non-medical prescriber or willing to work towards.

Desirable:

• To have or working towards a MSc/ Masters qualification.
• To have or working towards advanced health assessment module -- where applicable to the role.

Experience Essential:

• Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC.
• Significant post-registration experience at Band 6 or above Clinical Nurse Specialist within practice related field to role applied for.
• Evidence of ability to professionally lead/manage a team of staff.
• Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with a clinical service.
• Evidence of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator.
• Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing professional development/ competence.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality.
• Experience of developing educational programmes and teaching/assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
• Experience in service development.
• Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross-agency work environment.
• Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients/relatives/care staff.
• Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality.
• Has understanding/experience of the principles of safeguarding.
• Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance.

Desirable:

• Patient/user involvement and advocacy role.
• Awareness of current research related to the speciality.

Additional Criteria Essential:

• Ability to balance clinical caseload and managing a team.
• Report writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of health care professionals, on a variety of complex and sensitive issues which require persuasive and empathetic skills.
• Ability to work autonomously, manage/prioritise own workload.
• Competent in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices relevant to the scope of practice required.
• Ability to work under pressure across competing priorities.
• Ability to construct, undertake clinical audit and analyse information to produce a report and recommendations.
• Evidence of ability to compile reports and documents for internal/external communication.
• Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances.
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude.
• Ability to communicate articulately and motivate others.
• Evidence of flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development.
• Ability to work a varied shift pattern and/or across UHB sites where required.
• Ability to act on own initiative.

Desirable:

• Ability to articulate and evidence workforce requirements for the service using a systematic approach/methodology and evidence base where this is available.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship:

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration:

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer Details

Employer Name: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Solihull Community Nursing, Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4BN

Employer's Website: https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)