Assistant Practitioner Tissue Viability

3 weeks ago


Middlesbrough, United Kingdom South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

The post holder would work across acute and community settings over a large geographical area, including Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Hambleton and Richmondshire.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an energetic and motivated individual to work within the tissue viability team. You must be passionate about patient safety, enthusiastic about exploring new ways of working and a team player to help in the overall delivery of the trust improvement plan.

Main duties of the job

Your duties will include: supporting the tissue viability nurses with an extensive programme of education and delivering sessions to non-registered clinical staff, students and volunteers, Audit and data collection, service improvement projects and ensure safe and effective practice in all aspects of tissue viability to ensure best practice is achieved according to national and locally agreed standards/policies.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the New and Aspiring leaders programme, and the Foundation Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. After you complete this one and a half day of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Details of the full job description and person specification are available to view when you click to apply for the vacancy and click on the about this job link and the documents will be attached at the bottom of the screen.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Ability to work effectively and co-ordinate and prioritise workload without direct supervision Positive approach to patient care

Desirable

Experience in completing audit Knowledge and skills of tissue viability

Qualifications and Training

Essential

Level 2 in Maths and English Foundation Degree

Desirable

Level 3 certificate in assessing vocational achievement

Experience

Essential

Experience in teaching and the ability to hold regular teaching sessions

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