Dermatology Support Specialist

3 weeks ago


Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom Tripple Tree Ltd Full time
Job Title: Dermatology Support Specialist

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Skin Care Service at Tripple Tree Ltd, seeking a highly enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the service as a Dermatology Support Specialist.

The successful applicant will work under the direction of the Skin Team leader/Clinical leads supporting the provision of high-quality holistic specialist nursing care to patients. The Dermatology Support Specialist will work without direct supervision on occasions, providing care to patients in clinics across various locations, as delegated by the Skin Team leader following appropriate training and supervision to ensure clinical competence and safe effective care.

Operational hours of the service are Monday to Friday 08:30-17:00.

Triple Tree Ltd is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and is also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Triple Tree Ltd is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

  1. Carry out a range of clinical procedures including leg ulcer, wound, and pressure ulcer care in a range of settings such as clinics, nursing homes, and patients' own homes with supervision from a trained member of staff.
  2. Assist with assessments, reassessments, and Doppler ultrasound.
  3. Maintain, order, and check the expiry date of stock for a variety of clinics.
  4. Undertake a range of personal care activities with patients such as removing soiled bandages and dressings, cleaning wounds, applying treatments and creams under the supervision of trained staff, ensuring personal dignity and privacy.
  5. Offer advice to patients and carers on a range of health issues such as avoidance of pressure damage, prevention of recurrence of leg ulceration, and the importance of emollient treatments in dermatological conditions.
  6. Offer a level of psychological support to patients and carers in various situations and conditions such as psoriasis, eczema, and leg and pressure ulcers.
  7. Ensure contemporaneous record keeping both manual and computer-based that supports care and delivery by a range of professionals and provides an audit trail.
  8. Show analytic skills through interpretation of test results using policies/SOP and flow charts.
  9. Work unsupervised in well leg clinics, being aware of long-term conditions supporting patients to prevent leg ulcer recurrences.
  10. Work within well leg SOP and trust policies.
  11. Complete skills and competencies in leg ulcer management and Waterlow risk assessments.
  12. Be an advocate for patients while conducting well leg clinics and supporting the specialist nurses.
  13. Educate patients in well leg clinics to self-care in managing their hosiery and skin conditions.
  14. Enable individuals to develop necessary skills in health promotion and the ability to discuss and explain information leaflets provided, identifying risks and educating patients.
  15. Recognize the different health needs for individual patient assessments across localities.
  16. Undertake Waterlow risk assessments for pressure ulcer prevention following trust guidelines and well leg SOP.
  17. Liaise with GPs and other health professionals, writing to GPs to request prescriptions of recommended products.
  18. Apply compression bandaging in complex clinics and homeless clinics under supervision from trained nurses.
  19. Work on audits required by the organization, including data inputting of patient information, using spreadsheets for archiving within trust guidelines.
  20. Ensure relevant mandatory training is complete and up to date.
  21. Arrange clinic appointments for patients.
  22. Assist with entry of information on databases.

Salary: £25,000 per annum.



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