Overview
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Wound Care Nurse to join our healthcare team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in patient care. The Wound Care Nurse plays a crucial role in providing specialised care to patients with acute and chronic wounds. This position requires a compassionate and skilled nursing professional who can assess, plan, implement, and evaluate wound care treatments. The Wound Care Nurse will work closely with patients and healthcare teams to ensure optimal healing and recovery.
Hours: 15 hours per week
Main duties of the job
The post holder will undertake wound assessments and treatment for patients with both simple and complex wounds. Patients referred to this service will be the following types:
* Postoperative including suture and staple removal
* Post-trauma skin tears, self-harm
* Cavity wounds
* Burns
* Patient education including nutrition in relation to wound healing and scar management
There is an expectation to refer to the wider community team if required, support senior clinicians and HCAs, and attend meetings when required. The postholder will help promote the service and implement change as requested from the ICB.
About us
The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company can strategically visualise, develop, and implement award-winning services.
Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.
Come and be a part of our amazing team!
We offer NHS Pension
Cycle to Work Scheme
Attendance Bonus
Free Tea & Coffee
Eye Care Contributions
Job responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
* Maintain good standards of communication both in written and oral form.
* Assess a wound and make appropriate dressing selections for the desired plan of care within local formulary and national guidelines.
* Prescribe safely within the prescribing competency framework and undertake prescribing audits relevant to service.
* Assess patients autonomously whilst remaining within scope of practice.
* Show awareness of evidence-based practice in wound care.
* Promote and implement services to new sites when required by the ICB for the expansion of the service.
* Make entries on patient records to record clinical interventions.
* Record in the clinical notes using the service area computer programme AdAstra.
* Complete associated documents to accompany specimens using Cyberlab where available and label specimens.
* Work well within a small team.
* Be flexible with working pattern across current locations to assist with the team’s annual leave/sickness coverage.
* Communicate with patients and carers in a polite and pleasant manner.
* Receive and deliver patient-related information to and from other departments via telephone/emails.
* Conduct/partake in relevant audits to improve service provision.
* To ensure mandatory training is up to date.
* Be aware of safeguarding issues and refer to local social services as appropriate. Staff should be trained to level 3 safeguarding through mandatory training.
* Keep updated on practice through educational events and guidelines both local and national.
* Acknowledge and accommodate barriers to communication and understanding including speech, hearing, language, and emotion.
* May be required to encourage patients to comply with programmes of care.
* Initiate emergency action when required.
* Inform the Clinical Manager of any untoward incidents and work safely under the clinical governance framework.
* Dispose of clinical waste in a safe manner.
* Contribute to infection control measures by adhering to infection control policies/procedures.
The above list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be fully comprehensive and may be amended to take account of changing circumstances or requirements following consultation with the post holder.
Education and In-Service Training
Be fully conversant in all the clinical computer systems used within the Wound Care Service.
Attend relevant study/induction days, seminars, courses, self development, etc. for individual development and for the benefit of the service. Keep up to date with mandatory training.
Where necessary, relevant training in the operation of new or unfamiliar equipment, software or procedures will be provided or arranged.
Confidentiality
In the course of your duties, you may have access to confidential information about patients, staff or health service business. On no account must such information be divulged to anyone who is not authorised to receive it. Confidentiality of information must be always preserved whether at or away from work. FCMS has in place a Whistleblowers Policy for staff wishing to express concerns.
Data Protection Act, 1998
Carry out any requirements within the duties applicable to the Data Protection Act, 1998.
Health and Safety At Work Act, 1974
Observe all responsibilities and carry out all duties, whether general to all employees or specific to the post, relating to Health and Safety in accordance with the Practice and Departmental Safety Policies and any statutory requirements.
Clinical & Corporate Governance/Quality Assurance
All employees are expected to comply with the clinical and corporate governance arrangements of FCMS. Every employee is personally responsible for the quality of the work, and standard of care, which they individually provide. It is their duty to seek to attain the highest standards achievable both individually and collectively within their knowledge, skills and resources available to them.
If you have other work or outside interests, this must not conflict with your duties and responsibilities of your attendance for work as an employee of the Practice.
It is a condition of appointment that you must inform your manager before taking up any private practice, work for outside agencies or other employers, other work for this Practice (including bank work), voluntary work or outside interests you have or propose to have. This is to ensure there is no question of it creating a conflict of interest with your NHS duties. You must also therefore seek your manager's approval before taking on any such other work or outside interest at any time after entering employment.
Working Time Directive
You are required to comply with the regulations governing working time and to any locally agreed associated arrangements.
Harassment and Bullying
The Practice condemns all forms of harassment and bullying and is actively seeking to promote a workplace where employees are treated with dignity, respect and without bias.
In all the foregoing text any reference to one gender whether direct or implied equally includes the opposite gender unless specifically stated to be otherwise.
Fire Training
Each member of the staff has a statutory obligation to attend a Fire Lecture each year. It is the responsibility of each member of staff to ensure that they comply with this legal requirement.
FCMS has a no smoking policy
Disability Confident Employer
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
DBS
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. This will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence).
Please note that our roles are not being considered for sponsorship at this time
The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will be expected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicable to this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Person Specification
Communication
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to handle difficult situations
* Previous experience using Adastra
Experience
* Ability to work under pressure in intense conditions and within time constraints
* Understanding and awareness of CQC compliance and the essential standards of quality and safety
* Time management skills and ability to manage own caseload
* Challenges the norm and encourages team members
* Committed individual who supports others to develop change
* Good organisational and people skills
* Committed to their own personal development
* Wound care knowledge and local dressing regimes
* Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the current issues affecting urgent and emergency care services
Teamwork
* Adaptable to service need and requirements on a day-to-day basis
* Flexible to the need of the service
* Ability to work as a team
Qualifications
* Active NMC registration
* Good standards of general education
* Experience in wound care
* Completed the wound care alliance training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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