Job summary Are you passionate about improving patient outcomes in wound care and skin integrity?
Do you thrive on leading teams, driving innovation, and delivering high standards of care?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to make a significant impact by delivering expert leadership, clinical practice, education, training and research/audit in the prevention, care and management of patients with pressure ulcers and wounds.
Main duties of the job The post holder will be responsible for leading pressure ulcer/wound care management ensuring safe, effective, evidence-based practice in accordance with national/international guidance NICE; NPUAP and EPUAP and local guidance within the Trust wound care/pressure ulcer policies and procedures.
The post holder will be an expert resource for the Trust ensuring seamless care transitioning across inpatient and community services within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven and will be expected to display high levels of competence, professional judgement, integrity and personal accountability.
The post holder will improve and maintain standards of patient care through development, implementation and continuous evaluation of quality improvement initiatives, protocols and policies.
Leading on design and delivery of training and education in both mandatory and bespoke programmes throughout the Trust will be a core responsibility.
The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, and is not directly supervised.
They will manage the team to include duty rotas; delegation; PDRs; sickness and absence and team development opportunities.
Developing business plans to embed cost effectiveness whilst ensuring effective service delivery will be a key activity informing service improvement.
About us We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including: Cycle to WorkTravel SchemeChildcare Vouchers with Salary SacrificeOnsite NurseryBuying and Selling Annual LeaveCar LeasingEmployee Assistance ProgrammeEmployee Health and WellbeingExtensive Reward SchemeCounselling ServiceFinancial packages including Vivup and WagestreamStaff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients.
Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment.
Our values are part of our DNA, which are: Committed to Quality of CareCompassionWorking together for patientsImproving LivesEveryone CountsRespect and Dignity Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Job description Job responsibilities For further details including job description and person specification please see the attached documents.
Person Specification Experience Essential Significant post registration experience within a tissue viability environment.
Continued experience of being able to exercise initiative and take independent actions Experience of partnership working including interprofessional and multi-agency working Broad base of experience working with adults and families in secondary and/or primary care Working with patients with complex wounds Effective report writing / presentation skills Desirable Experience of undertaking audit and review Experience of working in different cultural contexts Evidence of contributing to service development Evidence of attending tissue viability training and conferences Qualifications Essential Registered Nurse Evidence of post graduate study Desirable MSc in TV Evidence of management training/experience