Pressure Ulcer Educator/Quality Improvement Practitioner
| Posting date: | 22 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £26,530.00 to £29,114.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £26530.00 - £29114.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2025 |
| Location: | South Petherton, TA13 5EF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9184-25-0883 |
Summary
Duties and Responsibilities: * To act as an innovative and enthusiastic role model providing training, guidance and advice to staff caring patients at risk or with pressure ulcers. * As directed, work with colleagues across the Trust to ensure that pressure ulcer prevention training is embedded, and compliance (where appropriate) is monitored. * To advocate the use of best practice in line with the Trust's Pressure Ulcer Policy. * To help maintain good communication, liaison and working arrangement with all inpatient clinical Wards/Units and working in close conjunction with the other relevant support teams. * To deliver training at various levels to a range of staff across the organisation, using different methods/strategies. * To support the Tissue Viability Teams with activities associated with pressure ulcer prevention as they work with their Tissue Viability Link Nurse/Champions networks, enabling the sharing of good practice and develop their roles across the wards/units. * To escalate any concerns around practice/care that they identify whilst working alongside frontline colleagues; addressing issues directly where they feel able and comfortable to within their remit and experience. * Delivering regular learning sessions to large groups, individual teams, bespoke clinical skills, and developing the use of technology enhanced learning, such as simulation (as appropriate). * Keep up to date with the development of clinical policies/procedures/best practice relevant to the topic. * Support local teams to facilitate quality improvement methodology to implement activities that address the pressure ulcer reduction strategy. * Ensure good standard on documentation of work activity to support the monitoring the impact of the educational and quality improvement activities. * Planning and prioritising work activities effectively and in line with the service requirements, as directed by the Pressure Ulcer Educator and Quality Improvement Co-ordinator. * Ensure accurate and timely clinical record keeping. * To be able to address straightforward problems in their day-to-day work, reporting concerns to their supervisor in a timely manner. * To participate in the implementation and audit/review of training and education activities relevant to the topic. * To gather feedback from training delivered for ongoing review. * Awareness of different teaching/learning methods and resources to ensure the most effective delivery is achieved. Whilst this is an education and quality improvement role, there is an expectation that the post holder will work clinically within one of the clinical teams for some of their contracted time, and this will require the following - * To implement treatment and care following specialist assessments as directed by senior members of the Tissue Viability Service; * Support specialist treatment of patients with complex tissue viability needs; * To ensure that the principles of confidentiality, consent and capacity are upheld within the application of their duties; *Work within the limitations of own scope of practice and competencies and escalate elements of care outside of that to a senior colleague; * Ensure accurate and timely clinical record keeping; * To be able to utilise specialist skills i.e., compression therapy, or Negative Pressure Wound Therapy.