Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 March 2026 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7731610/249-7731610 |
Summary
• Deliver a proactive, efficient and equitable tissue viability service for in-patients, including complex wound management, lower limb 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
1. Assesses patients/clients, plans, implements care in a variety of settings, provides highly specialist advice.
2. Deliver specialist nursing care to a defined caseload/within a defined area of nursing .
3. Provides highly specialist advice and support to nurses/multi-disciplinary team .
4. Provides specialist education and training to other staff, students and/or patients/clients .
5. Leads clinical audits in own specialist area.
Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required. This may be because agreement or co-operation is required or because there are barriers to understanding.
Communicates highly sensitive, confidential information e.g. safeguarding/public protection suspected patient abuse or sexually transmitted diseases /clients requiring empathy, persuasion and reassurance, e.g. Life limiting and or life changing information.
To operationally manage the Tissue Viability Team throughout Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, reporting to the TVN lead. Working closely with health care professionals from primary and secondary care settings, patients and their representative groups.
To provide specialist advice and clinical expertise in all aspects of tissue viability to practitioners within the organisation and healthcare community with a particular focus on reduction of harm from pressure and lower limb management.
This advert closes on Thursday 19 Feb 2026
• 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
1. Assesses patients/clients, plans, implements care in a variety of settings, provides highly specialist advice.
2. Deliver specialist nursing care to a defined caseload/within a defined area of nursing .
3. Provides highly specialist advice and support to nurses/multi-disciplinary team .
4. Provides specialist education and training to other staff, students and/or patients/clients .
5. Leads clinical audits in own specialist area.
Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required. This may be because agreement or co-operation is required or because there are barriers to understanding.
Communicates highly sensitive, confidential information e.g. safeguarding/public protection suspected patient abuse or sexually transmitted diseases /clients requiring empathy, persuasion and reassurance, e.g. Life limiting and or life changing information.
To operationally manage the Tissue Viability Team throughout Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, reporting to the TVN lead. Working closely with health care professionals from primary and secondary care settings, patients and their representative groups.
To provide specialist advice and clinical expertise in all aspects of tissue viability to practitioners within the organisation and healthcare community with a particular focus on reduction of harm from pressure and lower limb management.
This advert closes on Thursday 19 Feb 2026
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