Job 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.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide expert, holistic assessment and management of patients with complex wounds, promoting optimal healing and preservation of skin integrity.
2. Support the delivery and evaluation of tissue viability initiatives that improve patient outcomes and uphold dignity.
3. Offer specialist advice, education, and support to multidisciplinary teams, empowering colleagues to deliver consistent, safe, evidence‑based care.
4. Contribute to clinical governance, quality improvement, and service development projects within the team.
5. Participate in the delivery of teaching sessions and training programmes across clinical areas.
6. Work collaboratively across Barts Health, providing cross-site support to the wider Tissue Viability service when required.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential criteria
7. Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
8. Awareness of the National Guidelines relevant to tissue viability
9. Knowledge of contemporary wound dressings and technologies
10. Knowledge of and interest in quality improvement techniques
11. Knowledge of different types of therapy equipment
Desirable criteria
12. Graduate with relevant degree or equivalent
13. Teaching qualification
14. Recognised tissue viability qualification (level 3) D
15. Understand the principles of Governance, particularly in relation to their service area
Experience
Essential criteria
16. Evidence of experience and knowledge in Tissue Viability
17. Experience of leading a team (Band 6)
18. Experience of supporting other practitioners to deliver high quality care
19. Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
20. Ability to work autonomously and to prioritise and co-ordinate workload
21. Ability to work under pressure
22. High standards of record keeping and report writing
23. Experience of leading QI projects
24. Experience of formal and informal teaching
Skills
Essential criteria
25. Able to evidence clinical knowledge and skills in tissue viability, holistic patient assessment, complex wound assessment, treatment planning and evaluation
26. High level of personal professional accountability and working autonomously to achieve agreed objectives
27. Ability to negotiate and influence people to achieve change
28. Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritise effectively
29. Capable of working with clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels, displaying excellent customer service skills
30. Excellent organisational skills with flexibility to adapt when required
31. Skills in teaching registered and unregistered staff, multi-disciplinary team, carers and patients both formally and informally
32. Have good flexible influencing and motivating skills
Personal and people development
Essential criteria
33. Evidence of continued professional development
34. Up to date with local and national issues related to tissue viability and nursing practice
35. Determined and self- motivated individual
36. Ability to lead by example and effect change in others
Communication
Essential criteria
37. Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to maintain communication with people on complex and at times sensitive matters
38. Experience of presentation skills to a wide and varied audience
39. Ability to communicate ideas and information to audiences at all levels through a range of media
40. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience of training and writing reports that include data analysis.
Desirable criteria
41. Experience of presentation skills to a wide and varied audience
42. Ability to communicate ideas and information to audiences at all levels through a range of media
43. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience of training and writing reports that include data analysis.
Specific requirements
Essential criteria
44. Assertive but professional
45. Self- motivated, proactive, and resourceful
46. Strategic thinker and able to pay attention to detail where necessary
47. Sufficient to perform the duties of the post with any aids and adaptations if necessary
Visa Sponsorship Information
This role is subject to UK immigration requirements. Where sponsorship is required, applicants must meet the eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa in accordance with current UK Visas and Immigration rules, including any salary, qualification, and role-specific requirements applicable at the time of appointment. Candidates who require sponsorship will only be considered where the post is eligible and where all sponsorship criteria can be met. Evidence of the right to work in the UK will be required before appointment. Please note that for roles employed under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, the High-Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) is not included when calculating the basic salary for the purposes of sponsorship.