Tissue Viability and Skin Integrity Nurse Consultant

• Provide expert clinical leadership for tissue viability and skin integrity services across the Trust.
• Influence strategic decision-making relating to wound care, pressure ulcer prevention and skin integrity.
• Provide highly complex clinical advanced assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and evaluation.
• Lead Trust-wide quality improvement programmes relating to tissue viability and skin integrity.
• Develop clinical standards, policies, pathways and governance frameworks across Norfolk Adults and across East of England Community Health and Care.
• Responsible for the day-to-day line management of Tissue Viability Specialist Nurses, Skin Integrity Clinical Leads and the Principal Podiatrist.
• Provide specialist consultancy to clinical teams, managers and executive leaders.
• Lead education and competency development programmes across the workforce.
• Influence service development regionally and nationally through professional networks and research activity.
• Support the management of a designated budget and procurement decisions relating to specialist wound care products and equipment.
• Lead investigations of serious incidents, pressure ulcers, coroners requests and complex complaints relating to tissue viability and skin integrity care.

• Provide expert clinical leadership for tissue viability and skin integrity services across the Trust.
• Influence strategic decision-making relating to wound care, pressure ulcer prevention and skin integrity.
• Provide highly complex clinical advanced assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and evaluation.
• Lead Trust-wide quality improvement programmes relating to tissue viability and skin integrity.
• Develop clinical standards, policies, pathways and governance frameworks across Norfolk Adults and across East of England Community Health and Care.
• Responsible for the day-to-day line management of Tissue Viability Specialist Nurses, Skin Integrity Clinical Leads and the Principal Podiatrist.
• Provide specialist consultancy to clinical teams, managers and executive leaders.
• Lead education and competency development programmes across the workforce.
• Influence service development regionally and nationally through professional networks and research activity.
• Support the management of a designated budget and procurement decisions relating to specialist wound care products and equipment.
• Lead investigations of serious incidents, pressure ulcers, coroners requests and complex complaints relating to tissue viability and skin integrity care.

Essential

• Educated to MSc Professional Practice (Tissue Viability) and equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Member of relevant professional body

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
• Experience of advanced level practice
• Experience of managing services and people in a health setting (NHS or other)
• Experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures service wide
• Understanding of audit/ research and assessing evidence
• Understanding of audit/ research and assessing evidence
• Experience of managing budgets and HR staffing issues
• Evidence of leading major transformation programmes with measurable outcomes
• Evidence of service improvements with positive patient outcomes
• Experience of collaborating with commissioners, Integrated Care Boards and regional partners.
• Leadership skills to deliver strategic policy and initiatives
• Experience of leading research, innovation or service evaluation programmes.

Desirable

• Management within a community service
• Experience of contract management / negotiation /commissioning
• Evidence of publication, dissemination or presentation of research and innovation.

Essential

• Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Interpreting national policy for implementation
• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
• Ability to demonstrate measurable impact through quality, safety and outcome indicators.
• Expertise in partnership working across healthcare systems.
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
• Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
• Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
• Ability to gain credibility with clinical staff within health and partner agencies

Essential

• Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
• Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
• Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.

Essential

• Team working skills
• Self-motivated
• Ability to move between details and the bigger picture
• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
• Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop
• The post holder will need to be passed fit to perform full duties of the post through occupational health with any reasonable aids and adaptations.
• Must hold full and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle
• Able to communicate effectively in written and verbal English Language