Tissue Viability Specialist Clinical Team Lead

6 months ago


Newbold, United Kingdom Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are recruiting into the very exciting position of Tissue Viability Specialist Clinical Team Lead.

If you have a passion for quality, evidence based care but with a pragmatic approach, proven leadership, service improvement skills and Tissue Viability knowledge and experience we would love to hear from you.

You will also be required to liaise with a multitude of internal and external agencies, at all levels, to support and progress the Tissue Viability Service.

This is an opportunity to increase your knowledge and skills at a strategic level as well as support to DCHS clinicians, Managers and Tissue Viability Matron. You will have a close working relationship with Tissue Viability and Lower Limb Improvement Service Lead, Podiatry Leads as well as other specialist services in relation to lower limb care.

You will be directly with the Tissue Viability Matron.

Support the Tissue Viability Matron in leading and developing high quality Tissue Viability (TV) Services within Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS) (and as applicable for other providers of care under commissioned Service Level Agreements / contracts)

Manage in the “DCHS Way” the work of the Tissue Viability (TV) team to achieve their individual, service specific and organisational objectives

Improve TV quality and safety through the design, planning, monitoring and development of services

To participate in the development and implementation of the wider directorates quality and safety initiatives across DCHS

To support After Action Reviews, Serious Incidents and Coroner Investigations in DCHS and other settings, where appropriate

Monitor, analyse and provide an expert opinion on the TV surveillance and audit data collected by the TV service/operational teams

Deputise for the Tissue Viability Matron and other QPS division Matrons as required

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over 1 million people in Derby and Derbyshire, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ over 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health care centres, as well as clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and via virtual consultations.

Leadership
- Support the TV team to improve quality and safety through the development, implementation and evaluation of effective and high quality policies, procedures, guidelines and safe systems of work that prevent, monitor and manage wounds effectively
- Act as a role model for excellence in TV practice and the ‘DCHS Way’
- Support the knowledge, skills and practice of the TV team and wider organisational services

Patient Care
- Advise and support the TV team, operational managers and as indicated assistant directors/directors in the appropriate response and management of local incidents hotspots and wider health community initiatives to improve TV strategies
- Challenge poor practice and ensure individuals/services are aware of their roles and responsibilities
- Ensure proactive patient management and TV practices and competencies are embedded with the TV Specialist team and across DCHS
- Liaise with other providers to help develop effective patient pathways across the wider healthcare community
- Support and conduct After Action Reviews (AARs) serious incidence or coroners investigations relating to Tissue Viability
- Provide occasional clinical cover, for example, where locality TVNs are on annual leave or where high case loads

Strategy and Service Development
- To contribute to Tissue Viability policy and guidelines, including pressure ulcer prevention, lower limb improvement, and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) across DCHS.
- To work in partnership with other Tissue Viability teams across the East Midland Tissue Viability Network
- To explore the potential of new technologies in meeting tissue viability service requirements
- To develop and deliver educational sessions
- To collect, analyse and provide relevant data and reports for the Health community with regard to Tissue Viability issues

Financial Resources/Management
- Identify and support the implementation of initiatives to achieve cost improvements within Tissue Viability related work streams
- Identify and support income generation opportunities
- Ensure appropriate use of resources within the Tissue Viability service

Information Resources/Information Systems
- Maintain electronic records of advice given on patient care, compliance of care with policy and patient outcomes
- Maintain electronic records for staff on ESR

Autonomy/Scope within Role
- Manage own work load under the support and supervision of the Tissue Viability Matron
- Support an urgent/immediate response to situations requiring prompt action. This will require flexibility and the need to prioritise work accordingly.
- Identify and review with line manager any areas for own personal or role development
- Develop own and the TV teams knowledge skills and practice to be able to



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