Community Wound Care Nurse
| Posting date: | 30 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,521.00 to £41,955.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £34521.00 - £41955.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 May 2025 |
| Location: | Hackney, E8 4SA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0182-25-0000 |
Summary
The role of Community Wound Care Nurse is to contribute to the skilled delivery of wound and lymphoedema in our community services. The role will contribute to the focused delivery of innovative community-based solutions and will provide an excellent and structured development programme. They will be a contributory member of the team, helping advance both the service and the mission. Being a team player and bringing energy is essential. The Community Wound Care Nurse role may be a springboard into a specialist role either in lower limb, leg ulceration or lymphoedema, as and when vacancies arise. The Community Wound Care Nurse will be accountable to the Clinical Lead, supporting the development of a cohesive team. This will enable effective management of team objectives whilst remaining mission focussed. The post holder will bring a positive can do and solution focussed is fundamental to this role and will underpin the day to day running of the organisation. The post holder will enjoy team work to ensure the key deliverables are completed. Discretion and confidentiality will underpin the role alongside integrity and the ability to manage challenging situations. Being proactive and organised with excellent attention to detail is essential. The essential outcomes of the role are: 1.Provide skilful care and management to the population, delivered in a thoughtful, creative and timely manner. Being solution focussed and collaborative are key features of this role. 2.Championing delivery of all aspects of the service under direction of the Clinical Lead; this includes the creation of efficiencies and productive working 3.Providing daily management within the leg ulcer clinics and homes across the borough. 4.Encourage individualised care that enables people to tolerate treatments and thereby improve outcomes. 5.Enhance the delivery of Quality improvement initiatives, KPIs and internal audit. 6.Bringing critique to internal and external systems, creating positive change through effective team working. 7.Assist in the delivery of informal education to peers and patients. Responsibilities and Duties The post holder will work under the leadership of the Clinical Lead and duties will focus primarily on the lower limb population in Tower Hamlets and/or City and Hackney community; mobile and housebound patients The Accelerate Centre of Excellence & Innovation The individual will be expected to display good clinical skills and to work collaboratively and proactively with all teams to meet the needs of clients. This will include being actively involved in carrying out clinical skills as directed in a shared plan of care, enabling clients, their families and carers to be involved in the prevention and management of wounds and lymphoedema in the lower limb. In choosing to undertake this role the post holder will also be required to undertake other duties which will assist all other staff employed within Accelerate CIC to contribute to the operation of an efficient and effective service for the population served.