Community Wound Care Nurse

5 months ago

London Borough of Hackney, United Kingdom Accelerate CIC Full time

Job summary

Would you like the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge in Community Wound Management?

As an experienced community nurse you may well have managed people with a variety of wounds and leg ulceration. Bringing your experience to this role is critical; you will need creativity and compassion and want to develop and flourish within a team environment.

At Accelerate you really are given time to develop and time to care properly for your patient. This will mean you will have the professional success that you seek as a clinician and to see the change you have brought to the lives of your patients.

Main duties of the job

You will be a nurse who is looking for the next stage of their career. Your inherent interest and passion is important, skills can be taught; you will be keen to develop your knowledge for the benefit of your patient and team. You will have a special interest in people with acute and hard to heal wounds and a keen interest in compression therapy.

You will bring a positive "can do" mentality, being a person who is creative and solution focussed is critical and supports the whole team. You will enjoy teamwork and autonomy to ensure the key deliverables of this exciting role are completed and you develop.

Respect and confidentiality will underpin the role, alongside integrity and the ability to manage challenging situations. Being proactive and organised with excellent attention to detail are essential.

About us

Accelerate CIC is an independent not-for-profit award-winning community interest company (CIC) delivering community focussed wound and lymphoedema services to Tower Hamlets, City & Hackney and across London. We deliver NHS services. As a social enterprise we have greater control of our working environment and team ownership that benefits patients and staff alike. If we see something that needs to be changed, we do it We can and do bring change

Our mission is to make a tangible difference to people's lives and we are doing this daily, reaching more complex wound and lymphoedema patients every year. We are a team full of energy and drive, we are so proud of all that we do

We welcome those who are enthusiastic about developing their skills with opportunities for advancing. You will be part of a progressive and dynamic multidisciplinary team that supports, challenges and inspires change.

Review our Careers Pack for information.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role of Community Wound Care Nurse is to contribute to the skilleddelivery of wound and lymphoedema in our community services. The role willcontribute to the focused delivery of innovative community-based solutions andwill provide an excellent and structured development programme. They will be acontributory member of the team, helping advance both the service and themission. Being a team player and bringing energy is essential.

The Community Wound Care Nurse role may be a springboard into aspecialist role either in lower limb, leg ulceration or lymphoedema.

The Community Wound CareNurse will be accountable to the Clinical Lead, supporting the development of acohesive team. This will enable effective management of team objectives whilstremaining mission focussed.

The post holder will bringa positive can do and solution focussed is fundamental to this role and willunderpin the day to day running of the organisation. The post holder will enjoyteam work to ensure the key deliverables are completed. Discretion andconfidentiality will underpin the role alongside integrity and the ability tomanage challenging situations. Being proactive and organised with excellentattention to detail is essential.

The essential outcomes of the role are:

1.Provide skilful care and management to the population, delivered in a thoughtful, creative and timely manner. Being solution focussed and collaborative are key features of this role.

2.Championing delivery of all aspects of the service under direction of the Clinical Lead; this includes the creation of efficiencies and productive working

3.Providing daily management within the leg ulcer clinics and homes across the borough.

4.Encourage individualised care that enables people to tolerate treatments and thereby improve outcomes.

5.Enhance the delivery of Quality improvement initiatives, KPIs and internal audit.

6.Bringing critique to internal and external systems, creating positive change through effective team working.

in the delivery of informal education to peers and patients.

Responsibilities and Duties

The post holder will work under the leadership of the Clinical Lead and duties will focus primarily on the lower limb population in

Tower Hamlets and/or City and Hackney community; mobile and housebound patients

The Accelerate Centre of Excellence & Innovation

The individual will be expected to display good clinical skills and to work collaboratively and proactively with all teams to meet the needs of clients. This will include being actively involved in carrying out clinical skills as directed in a shared plan of care, enabling clients, their families and carers to be involved in the prevention and management of wounds and lymphoedema in the lower limb.

In choosing to undertake this role the post holder will also be required to undertake other duties which will assist all other staff employed within Accelerate CIC to contribute to the operation of an efficient and effective service for the population served.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

First level Registered Nurse Current NMC Registration or Equivalent

Desirable

Wound Care related course

Experience

Essential

Minimum 1 year's nursing experience post qualification Clinical Experience of patients with long-term conditions Experience of wound assessment and management Experience of lower limb leg ulcerations and general lymphoedema management Experience and knowledge of a variety of compression bandaging Experience of working within a team Knowledge of professional issues in health care

Desirable

Experience of working in a clinic environment Acute and/or community experience Clinical experience of wounds and dressings Experience of chronic oedema

Personal Aptitude

Essential

Enthusiastic with willingness to learn and implement new ideas: be creative and have the desire to progress with professional development Commitment to facilitating learning in others Willing to undertake training and develop clinical competencies Excellent time management

Ways of Working

Essential

Able to work under guidance and take instruction whilst being able to operate with minimal supervision in implementing and evaluating care for patients Management capability; has an organised approach to managing own work and able to prioritise Excellent communication skills and fluent in English: written and verbal Cognisant with IT networks: competent with electronic systems Professional behaviour with good customer service skills Safe practitioner with attention to detail Flexibility in approach to work and understands team working

Desirable

Familiar with data capture in a variety of formats

Circumstances

Essential

Holds valid UK Work Permit

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