Tissue Viability Specialist

4 weeks ago

Luton, Luton, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and skilled Tissue Viability Nurse to join our team at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As a Tissue Viability Nurse, you will play a crucial role in providing expert care to patients with tissue viability and wound care needs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide expert nursing advice and support to patients, their families, and other healthcare professionals.
  • Ensure continuity of high-standard evidence-based nursing care, assessing nursing needs of patients, their families, and other carers in relation to pressure ulcer prevention and wound management.
  • Accept responsibility for own patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporates the issues and recommendations made, ensuring clear documentation in the patients' records and handheld records.
  • Follow-up patients as appropriate and ensure all relevant information is available to enable patients to make an informed choice about their treatment.
  • Support the Lead Nurse with the identification and development of clinical protocols and strategies to enhance both the continuity and standard of specialist care while ensuring equity of access to the service.
  • Ensure all care is given in accordance with agreed protocols.
  • Actively involve patients in providing feedback of their experience of the current service and suggestions for improvements.

About Us

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high-quality care for a growing population, and we are committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of our staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region, you will have access to a programme of high-quality training and development to help you grow your career.

Our Values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust's core values. We achieve this by using values-based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

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