Job overview
Are you passionate about improving patient outcomes, preventing pressure damage, and supporting staff to deliver high-quality wound care? We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated nurse to join our Tissue Viability Team at UCLH as a Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist.
This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a Trust-wide specialist team, supporting clinical areas to deliver high standards of pressure injury prevention, complex wound management, education, audit, and service improvement. You will work closely with ward teams, matrons, infection prevention, and multidisciplinary teams to improve patient safety and promote evidence-based practice across the organisation.
This role offers the opportunity to work as an autonomous practitioner, managing a clinical caseload, providing specialist advice, supporting incident reviews, delivering education and training, and contributing to Trust-wide quality improvement work and harm-free care initiatives.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about education, service improvement, patient safety, and improving clinical outcomes, and who enjoys working collaboratively across teams and services.
We are committed to supporting professional development. The successful candidate will be supported to undertake Tissue Viability modules / specialist Tissue Viability course to further develop their knowledge and specialist skills within the role.
Main duties of the job
The Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist provides a Trust-wide specialist service focusing on pressure injury prevention, wound management, education, and quality improvement.
Key duties include providing specialist advice and support to clinical teams, managing a caseload of patients with complex wounds, undertaking holistic assessments and care planning, and supporting staff with clinical decision-making and evidence-based practice.
The role also involves delivering education and training, supporting incident reviews and learning, participating in audit and quality improvement projects, and contributing to the development of policies, guidelines, and wound care formularies.
The post holder will work closely with multidisciplinary teams across the Trust and act as a professional role model, supporting harm-free care, patient safety, and high standards of patient care.
Working for our organisation
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.