Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse

The successful candidate/s will provide families, carers and professionals with education within the field of Tissue Viability. Work with patients with complex Tissue Viability conditions, optimising treatment and facilitating diagnosis and appropriate referral to other specialties. Review patients in the complex wound clinic, lymphoedema and lower limb clinics, their own home or during admission to hospital. Assist with appropriate selection of pressure redistributing equipment for patients at risk or management of pressure damage. Provide advice on specialist equipment and dressing selection.

The Tissue Viability team embeds research into everyday practice and are highly research active with a large portfolio of studies. The successful candidate/s will also be highly involved in audit, research and innovation and will assist in the delivery of the research portfolio.

The Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse will provide clinical advice, intervention and education in the field of Tissue viability, to both patients and all staff in the Trust; facilitating the planning, delivery and evaluation of specialist nursing care. The post holder will contribute to the promotion and development of nursing in the field of tissue viability creating and maintaining a culture of effective patient and health care services which have measurable, achievable and desirable outcomes for patients.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

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