Overview
Band 6 Junior Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist – Whipps Cross Hospital (Secondment Opportunity)
Join us in transforming patient care through excellence in skin health and wound management.
An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen within the Tissue Viability team at Whipps Cross Hospital. We are a supportive, forward‑thinking service dedicated to delivering outstanding patient‑centred care, innovation, and continuous improvement in tissue viability practice.
As a Band 6 Junior Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, you will play a vital role in ensuring patients receive safe, effective, and compassionate specialist care. This is a development-focused role designed to help you grow your expertise, leadership skills, and clinical influence across the organisation.
Responsibilities
* Provide expert, holistic assessment and management of patients with complex wounds, promoting optimal healing and preservation of skin integrity.
* Support the delivery and evaluation of tissue viability initiatives that improve patient outcomes and uphold dignity.
* Offer specialist advice, education, and support to multidisciplinary teams, empowering colleagues to deliver consistent, safe, evidence‑based care.
* Contribute to clinical governance, quality improvement, and service development projects within the team.
* Participate in the delivery of teaching sessions and training programmes across clinical areas.
* Work collaboratively across Barts Health, providing cross-site support to the wider Tissue Viability service when required.
About Barts Health
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers. The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Cynthia Zimuto
Job title: Associate Director of Quality and Patient Safety
Email: c.zimuto@nhs.net
Telephone: 07701004456
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