Tissue Viability Clinical Lead

The post holder, will lead the Tissue Viability Team and be responsible for the management of the service caseload ensuring the provision of a high standard of nursing care to patients and their families in the community. They will work as part of the integrated community health care team, working within and across professional and organisational boundaries. Liaising with GPs, other professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies they will deliver individualised care to patients. The Tissue Viability Nurse works without direct supervision and provides leadership to the community nursing team supporting the service, with the support of the Operational Lead.

Holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.

Nurse Prescribing/Non-Medical Prescribing.

First contact assessment, care and referral.

Providing public health, health promotional programmes to improve health and reduce inequalities.

Maintaining contemporaneous written and computerised records.

Providing support to the Tissue Viability Team and wider CHSCS colleagues

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Qualifications

Essential: - Registered Nurse with current NMC registration; - Relevant post registration course & /or Certification of wound management/leg ulcer care; -

Desirable: - Non-medical prescriber (V300)

Experience