Staff Nurse - Tissue Viability

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 3 x Band 5 Tissue Viability Staff Nurses within Northumbria Healthcare’s ever evolving Tissue Viability Team across both the community and acute services.

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 and lower leg 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.

This is a great opportunity to be part of an experienced and committed service in a forward-thinking organisation and make a tangible difference to those struggling with a range of Tissue Viability conditions.

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 and lower leg 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.

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

The Tissue Viability Staff Nurse will provide clinical advice, intervention and education in the field of Tissue viability/Leg ulcer care, 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.