Job Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Tissue Viability Nurse to join us in delivering Tissue Viability Services across Northeast Hants, Farnham and Surrey Heath.
You will join our small, supportive and welcoming team of fellow Tissue Viability Nurses based at Farnham Hospital providing support to Community nurses, primary care and care homes.
As a Tissue Viability Nurse you will assess and interpret the clinical condition of patients to devise person centred care plans and provide highly specialised clinical advice and support to staff and patients, relatives and carers.
This is a full-time opportunity working 37.5 hours across the week with no requirement for weekend or bank holiday working.
If you would like to learn more about this role please contact Mandy Gundry at Mandy.Gundry@hcrgcaregroup.com
Main Responsibility
As a Band 7 Tissue Viability Nurse you will:
- Assess and interpret the clinical condition of patients to devise person centred care plans
- Be responsible and accountable for ensuring caseload assessments are reviewed according to clinical need
- Act as a role model to provide effective leadership, ensuring competent, safe practice.
- Undertake the role of educator in clinical practice across defined areas of expertise
- Provide highly specialised clinical advice and support to staff and patients, relatives and carers
- Support the creation of a learning/development environment for team members and students
For a full list of job responsibilities please see the attached job description
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will have:
- First Level Registered Nurse
- Minimum of three years’ experience in relevant field
- Relevant Wound care and Leg Ulcer care experience
- Evidence of relevant post registration specialist continuing professional development
- Full Driving licence and access to Car
Package Description
As a Tissue Viability Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in Surrey.
You will feel valued as a Tissue Viability Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £43,742 - £50,056 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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