Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse Wound Clinic | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,485 - £52,521 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 January 2026 |
| Location: | London, SE2 0AY |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7654883/277-7654883-CPH |
Summary
***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***
Deliver wound care in a clinic setting for patients from the District Nursing caseload who can attend a clinic.
This post will be looking for 2 band 6's to work in clinic both in Bexley and Greenwich clinics.
To work in partnership in a changing environment, to maintain and improve health outcomes.
Work as an autonomous practitioner providing holistic packages of safe and effective, high quality, evidenced based care to patients within a community setting.
To provide clinical, and professional leadership for the team providing care ensuring the quality and standards of care are in line with evidenced based practice.
Work as an autonomous practitioner to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and also participate in the training of patients, relatives, carers, students and other health care professionals.
Deliver wound care in a clinic setting for patients from the District Nursing caseload who can attend clinics.
Undertake wound care assessments, devise management plans, and provide evidence-based treatment.
Perform Ankle Brachial Pressure Index (ABPI) Doppler assessments and leg ulceration differential diagnosis, interpreting results to select appropriate dressings, compression bandaging, or garments.
Use the Healthy iO wound care app to support treatment and documentation.
Advise and support District Nursing teams, including recommendations for housebound patients.
Measure for hosiery and teach patients how to care for their legs.
Complete holistic assessments and care planning, ensuring excellent documentation in line with trust standards.
Collaborate closely with patients, carers, and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT).
Participate in regular clinical supervision, reflective practice, and the supervision of junior staff.
· Engage in ongoing personal and professional development
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
You will be responsible for carrying out full and thorough clinical and risk assessment for the people in your care, seeing them holistically, being sensitive to their needs and escalating that risk to senior staff where necessary.
Working within the wider multi-disciplinary team, you will develop and implement individualised care plans that will deliver high quality care that is evaluated and continually improved.
You will be responsible for carrying out full and thorough physical health assessments and regular monitoring of the people in your care, ensuring that their fundamental care needs are assessed and attended to including nutrition, hydration, comfort, and hygiene and producing excellent quality documentation which follows the trust record keeping standards.
We will expect you to be actively involved in regular clinical supervision and reflective practice and by undertaking the supervision of junior staff. You will collaborate with your line manager in the annual personal development process, setting goals for your continual development and undertaking training and learning opportunities that are identified in the plan.
This advert closes on Wednesday 31 Dec 2025
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