Are you dedicated to providing exceptional nursing care in a Wound Clinic environment?
Do you find wound healing and the aetiology intriguing?
Are you seeking a new challenge to enhance your knowledge and skills while contributing to a service committed to excellence in wound care?
We are thrilled to announce that we have vacancies for motivated and passionate nurses to join us at our Wound Healing Service Team in Telford and Shropshire.
Our team is professional, skilled, friendly and supportive and we prioritise safety while delivering high quality, holistic, evidence based wound care to our patients.
By joining our supportive and dedicated team you will have the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge of wound healing to provide optimum care for patients with a wide variety of wounds.
There will be training provided to enhance your skills to enable you to work as an independent clinician providing high quality patient care, as well as opportunities for further academic learning and support for your career development.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating wound care for patients. Provide a plan of care using trust policies and pathways for guidance whilst utilising local formularies. Provide holistic assessment of patients needs making onward referrals where required. Ensure safeguarding needs are met and escalate where indicated, ensuring IPC policies and protocols are followed to maintain ongoing patient safety. Support junior staff and students in achieving their learning outcomes. Liaise with senior nurse, Tissue Viability, GPs, and wider MDT where required. Participate in audits to ensure ongoing quality and improvement within the service. Participate in ordering of clinic stock and dressing supplies, ensuring stock rotation to avoid waste of resources. Support senior nurse and cover when needed. About us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff. Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance. Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role. Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
RGN NMC Registered Ability to demonstrate a level of English Language and grammar commensurate with writing in service user case notes Other
Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post Experience
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary / multi-agency health/social care environment Experience and knowledge of basic administration systems including Microsoft Office Experience of successful partnership working arrangements with other services Previous community/wound care/tissue viability experience Knowledge and Skills
Engaging and empowering approach that seeks to work with others and deliver outcomes in a successful and well-informed manner Uses Evidence based practice Works within own defined competencies Ability to communicate complex and distressing information to patients and their carers in a sensitive and supportive way at a level they can understand Work autonomously, in line with scope of practice, competence and policies IT Skills 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. The Wound Healing Service, Dale Acre Way £29,970 to £36,483 a year Per Annum / Pro Rata Contract
Permanent Working pattern
Reference number
825-6828070-OPS Job locations
The Wound Healing Service, Dale Acre Way
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Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating wound care for patients. Provide a plan of care using trust policies and pathways for guidance whilst utilising local formularies. Provide holistic assessment of patients needs making onward referrals where required. Ensure safeguarding needs are met and escalate where indicated, ensuring IPC policies and protocols are followed to maintain ongoing patient safety. Support junior staff and students in achieving their learning outcomes. Liaise with senior nurse, Tissue Viability, GPs, and wider MDT where required. Participate in audits to ensure ongoing quality and improvement within the service. Participate in ordering of clinic stock and dressing supplies, ensuring stock rotation to avoid waste of resources. Support senior nurse and cover when needed. About us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff. Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance. Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role. Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
RGN NMC Registered Ability to demonstrate a level of English Language and grammar commensurate with writing in service user case notes Other
Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post Experience
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary / multi-agency health/social care environment Experience and knowledge of basic administration systems including Microsoft Office Experience of successful partnership working arrangements with other services Previous community/wound care/tissue viability experience Knowledge and Skills
Engaging and empowering approach that seeks to work with others and deliver outcomes in a successful and well-informed manner Uses Evidence based practice Works within own defined competencies Ability to communicate complex and distressing information to patients and their carers in a sensitive and supportive way at a level they can understand Work autonomously, in line with scope of practice, competence and policies IT Skills 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. The Wound Healing Service, Dale Acre Way £29,970 to £36,483 a year Per Annum / Pro Rata Contract
Permanent Working pattern
Reference number
825-6828070-OPS Job locations
The Wound Healing Service, Dale Acre Way
#J-18808-Ljbffr
