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Leg Ulcer Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	30 May 2024
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	07 July 2024
Location:	Ainsdale, PR8 3RJ
Company:	Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	6353408/350-COM6270590-A

Summary

An opportunity is available for a Leg Ulcer Nurse to work alongside the Tissue Viability Service in Sefton Place. The post holder must be a registered nurse (NMC) with experience in wound care and leg ulcer management. The post holder will provide clinical expertise in the specialist field of leg ulcer management, being able to work autonomously to achieve person centred care. To work with key members of primary and secondary care to provide, advice, support, care plans to patients within the relevant identified specialist field. This is a secondment or fixed term post for 12 months.





The post holder will support district nursing and treatment room services in Sefton Place providing care for patients who require lower limb assessments, dopplers and compression bandaging to manage leg ulcers. Providing advice & support and implementing care plans to patients within the relevant identified specialist field. The post holder will provide training, education, and specialist advice to qualified and none-qualified health care professional in all areas of the specialised field of practice. The post holder will have an awareness of and implement clinical practice utilising the direction provided by National Service frameworks; NICE, Clinical Governance and DoH guidelines to ensure high quality evidence based best practice

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined specialist nursing caseload.

Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.

Undertake holistic assessments of need for the patient and family, which may be highly complex, using the appropriate model of care and evidence based practice.

Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.

Provide advice to patients, clients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, life style advice and health care.

Ensure that the team provides a high quality clinical service to its clients by participation in caseload and clinical supervision.

In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.

Develop partnerships and joint working within other agencies as appropriate

Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.

Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team.

Support the team leader in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.

Acts as an advocate and champion for patients and/or clients.

Act as a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care possible.

Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.

Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.

Provide information to the team leader on staff and patient/client activity as requested, to enable the effective management of the team.

Support the team leader in the implementation of practice development, improvement and service modernisation initiatives.

Support the team leader by monitoring and recording sickness and absence, capability and other issues within the team, reporting them as soon as possible.

In conjunction with other caseload holders, provide day-to-day supervision and support for the team.

Support the team leader in providing induction to the local working environment, clinical services and policies for new team members and students.

Undertake personal development plans with other members of the team, as delegated by the team leader.

Communicate with the multi-disciplinary team to provide best outcomes for patients/clients; this may include organising case conferences related to highly complex cases.

Participate in individual and group supervision.

Monitor record keeping within the team and inform the team leader of any issues.

This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency. Support the implementation of any initiatives to improve quality within the clinical governance framework.

Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.

Work with the team leader to ensure achievement of your own personal development plan.

Maintain up to date knowledge and competence in line with professional and service requirements and demonstrate critical thinking, decision-making and reflective skills to ensure own professional development.

Support the Team Leader in creating an environment in which learning and practice development is fostered, evaluated and disseminated.
Facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.

Facilitate pre and post registration student placements within the team.
Mentor and assess pre-registration students.

Participation in clinical audits and research, as required.

The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.


This advert closes on Thursday 13 Jun 2024