Tissue Viability Nurse | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Oldham, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom
Job description
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for an experienced registered nurse to join the Tissue Viability Service at The Royal Oldham Hospital, part of the Northern Care Alliance.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who is passionate about wound care and quality improvement. We will support you to develop into a expert practitioner in Tissue Viability.
The successful candidate will provide specialist advice, support and education to patients and staff in the Acute setting and will demonstrate Tissue Viability knowledge and a proven interest in acute and chronic complex wound care, pressure ulcer prevention, treatment and management.
Oldham Care Organisation , part of The Northern Care Alliance has an opportunity for a Band 6 Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist to join our Hospital based team at The Royal Oldham Hospital. The Tissue Viability Nurse will provide expert advice and support to inpatient services and staff. Will support with training for staff, patients and carers in relation to tissue viability, including pressure ulcer prevention and management, surgical wounds and leg ulcers.
We are seeking a dynamic individual who is keen to join us. If you are committed to improving outcomes for patients then this post is your chance to work in a great team and make a real difference to our patients.
The post holder will become part of the Tissue Viability team in maintaining standards of clinical care and work in close collaboration with other professionals.
They will provide expert clinical advice, support and education within the acute hospital setting and work collaboratively with professionals and agencies involved in the delivery of wound care, based on local and national guidelines and best practice recommendations, in relation to wound management strategies.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website:
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:
This advert closes on Sunday 24 Mar 2024
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