Job Description

Sherwood Forest Hospitals have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated practitioner to lead our Tissue Viability Service and drive the delivery of the highest standards of wound care and pressure ulcer prevention across the Trust.



As the Trust's specialist in tissue viability, you will lead the service, working collaboratively with the Tissue Viability Team and the wider multi?disciplinary workforce.



You will oversee the monitoring and prevention agenda for pressure ulcers, manage the wound care formulary, and influence the cost?effective use of pressure?relieving equipment.

Key Responsibilities:

Deliver a proactive, efficient and equitable tissue viability service for both in?patients and out?patients, including complex wound management and pressure ulcer prevention.



Provide expert clinical care to support positive patient outcomes and reduce avoidable pressure ulcers and associated harm.



Lead the Trust?wide tissue viability education programme, ensuring staff have the knowledge and skills to deliver safe, effective care.



Provide assurance that tissue viability standards and hospital?acquired pressure ulcer rates are monitored, risks mitigated, and concerns escalated appropriately.



Offer strong, visible clinical leadership, inspiring and empowering nurses and clinical teams to deliver high?quality tissue viability care



Apply now to join our team!



To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.



We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.



We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.



We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.



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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.