Overview
Are you an experienced and forward-thinking nurse ready to shape the future of tissue viability care? Wye Valley NHS Trust is excited to offer a new opportunity for a Band 8A Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist to lead and develop our evolving service. This pivotal role will not only provide expert clinical leadership in tissue viability but also take on strategic responsibility for the Lymphoedema and Lower Limb services, ensuring a cohesive and patient-centred approach across pathways. As the service lead, you will champion innovation, drive quality improvement, and support staff development—guided by our core values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. If you are passionate about delivering outstanding care and ready to make a lasting impact, we would be delighted to hear from you.
As the Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist and new service lead, you will provide expert clinical leadership in the prevention and management of complex wounds, pressure ulcers, and skin integrity issues across acute and community settings. You will be responsible for developing and implementing evidence-based protocols, delivering specialist education, and leading quality improvement initiatives. In addition, you will line manage the Lymphoedema and Lower Limb services, ensuring integrated, patient-centred care and supporting staff development across these pathways.
Responsibilities
* Provide expert clinical leadership in tissue viability, including prevention and management of complex wounds, pressure ulcers, and skin integrity issues across acute and community settings.
* Develop and implement evidence-based protocols, deliver specialist education, and lead quality improvement initiatives.
* Line manage the Lymphoedema and Lower Limb services, ensuring integrated, patient-centred care and supporting staff development across these pathways.
* Lead strategic responsibility for the Lymphoedema and Lower Limb services and contribute to service development and pathways.
* Champion innovation and uphold the core values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence in all activities.
About Wye Valley NHS Trust
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust; they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
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