Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse with a passion for wound care to be a member of the Tissue Viability team, offering specialist tissue viability advise and support across the North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) units.
The post holder will be a registered nurse responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.
Main duties of the job
·To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload
·To be a trust resource for clinical expertise in Tissue viability
·To have organisational knowledge relating to the trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly in administration of medicines and moving and handling
·To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting and assessing and controlling and ensuring residual risks are added to the trust register.
·To be conversant with, and work in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct (2008) and other NMC advisory papers
·To critically appraise evidence based literature and to use this knowledge to inform practice and teaching in order to promote and maintain high standards in tissue viability specialist nursing
·To maintain professional knowledge and skill through completion of relevant accredited courses attendance at external courses/ conferences, the development of an individual development plan and by developing and maintaining supportive networks
·To contribute to the clinical governance and agenda through participation in clinical risk assessment and management, clinical audit research
·To maintain our expert level of clinical competence and maintain professional portfolio
·To evaluate and develop own role in order to improve treatment and support for patients and cares and further develop service
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Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
1. We are kind.
2. We are respectful.
3. We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
Starting with Us
NELFT places great importance on new starters being properly welcomed into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will also have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend several drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,192 to a maximum of £2,011 pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job description and Person Specification for further information for the Tissue Viability Band 7 post
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
4. RN with current NMC registration status
5. Wound management /leg ulcer qualification
6. Nurse/Prescriber/Non-Medical Prescriber or committed to undertake
Desirable criteria
7. Post qualification in management
8. Degree in relevant area of practice or committed to undertake
Experience
Essential criteria
9. Five years nursing experience
10. Experience of working in multidisciplinary environment with a wide range of individuals at different levels.
Desirable criteria
11. Teaching and assessing in clinical practice
12. Health needs assessment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
13. An awareness of NHS priorities
14. Able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of professional and personal responsibilities and accountability in line with the NMC code of professional conduct
15. Able to provide evidence based care that is responsive to needs of patients and carers by forming a shared working partnership
Desirable criteria
16. Knowledge of information technology and health care implications
17. Budgetary management
Skills
Essential criteria
18. High levels of clinical skills and knowledge in areas of tissue viability
19. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
20. Ability to prioritise
Other
Essential criteria
21. To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
22. Car owner/driver full valid UK driving licence
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
23. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
24. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
25. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
26. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.