Are you passionate about advancing patient care and making a meaningful impact in wound management? We're looking for a dedicated Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse to join our dynamic and supportive Tissue Viability Team. In this role, you'll contribute to the prevention and management of complex wounds, including pressure ulcers, while ensuring the highest standards of care for patients, their families, and the wider healthcare team.
You'll play a key role in educating and training staff, patients and carers, fostering an environment of continuous learning and growth. You will also provide invaluable support to new team members, guiding them through a comprehensive induction to ensure a positive and inclusive working experience.
If you're looking for a role where you can lead by example, develop your expertise and support a collaborative multidisciplinary team, we'd love to hear from you
Why Join Us?
Inclusive Team Culture: Join a supportive and diverse team that values collaboration, respect and continuous learning.
Growth and Development: We offer opportunities to enhance your clinical expertise and leadership skills through training, education and career development programs.
Making a Difference: Play a pivotal role in improving the quality of life for patients while delivering compassionate, evidence-based care.
Main Duties:
Lead and Innovate: Develop and coordinate an evidence-based complex wound service that aligns with clinical governance standards and provides high-quality, patient-centered care.
Service Development: Contribute to the continuous improvement of services through audit, research and implementation of best practices in tissue viability.
Clinical Leadership: Provide expert leadership and support to the nursing and administrative staff. Step as the lead in the absence of the Tissue Viability Lead Nurse.
Education and Support: Offer specialist advice and training to healthcare professionals across the Borough of Barnet, ensuring high standards of clinical practice.
Collaborative Practice: As an autonomous practitioner, liaising with primary and secondary care services and independent nursing homes to ensure seamless patient care and optimal outcomes.
Mentorship: Offer support and mentorship to junior team members and newly starting nurses, fostering an environment of learning and growth in tissue viability nursing.
Empowerment through Self-Care: Promote self-care and hospital admission avoidance, empowering patients and carers with the knowledge to manage tissue viability conditions.
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life's most important moments.
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust's values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.'