Nurse Director-Tissue Viability/ Lymphoedema
| Posting date: | 21 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 May 2026 |
| Location: | Eastbourne, BN23 8AS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | U0029-26-0004 |
Summary
JOB PURPOSE The Nurse Director role will support the provision of clinical, professional and operational leadership for wound care and lymphoedema services across the organisation. The postholder will contribute to ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, patient-centred care, driving improvements in clinical outcomes, reducing unwarranted variation, and supporting the achievement of organisational strategic objectives. Working in partnership with the Nurse Directors and Executive Team, the postholder will support the delivery of corporate, professional, operational and clinical service objectives. The role will include delegated responsibility for defined service areas and programmes of work, contributing to service development, quality improvement, and performance management. The postholder will also support system-wide working and service integration, while developing leadership capabilities. The role combines professional nursing leadership, specialist clinical skills whilst supporting operational excellence ensuring the organisations deliver safe, effective, responsive, well led and compassionate care in line with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards and the organisations strategic objectives. This position will drive and help to continually embed Pioneers values; putting Patients First; effective Communication; invest in Staff Development; strive for Excellence; and advance practice through Research. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Strategic Clinical Leadership Contribute and/or Lead transformation programmes for wound care and lymphoedema services aligned with organisational priorities (e.g. models of care, system change, research, NHS/private patients). Provide leadership across delegated or defined service workstreams, acting as a key advisor to the Pioneer Board on planning and delivery, and appropriately escalating risks, issues or exceptions. Contribute to service and operational planning. Clinical Leadership To provide professional leadership, acting as the lead clinician who supervises staff assessing, planning, implementing overseeing and evaluating programmes of care and advanced skills. Participate and lead the management of patients with complex wounds and lymphoedema needs. Promote a patient focused multidisciplinary approach to care in collaboration with family, carers, health care professionals and other agencies To work according to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct professional guidelines Clinical Workforce Leadership Provide professional and visible leadership for the nursing and allied health professional workforce across all sites or services. Support workforce planning, recruitment, retention, and professional development initiatives. Ensure standards of clinical practice, record keeping and reporting are of a required standard and any issues identified are escalated expediently. Ensure compliance with revalidation and continuing professional development requirements. Quality Ensure incidents, complaints, and patient safety events are managed, investigated, and learned from in accordance with Patient Safety Incident Review Framework (PSIRF) policy. Uphold quality initiatives ensuring learning and improvement are embedded across clinical areas. Promote a culture of openness and continuous learning in line with the Duty of Candour and Freedom to Speak Up principles. Governance Support the Quality and Clinical Governance systems of Pioner, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory frameworks (CQC, NHS England, NICE, NMC). Ensure clinical governance systems, including risk registers, and clinical audits are completed and any issues escalated. Attend and contribute to the clinical governance meetings including managing action plans, identified outcome measurements and audit and patient experience metrics. To monitor and undertake audits contributing to standards of all care within all clinical settings as agreed with the Nurse Director Team Contribute to high-quality reports for the Executive Team and Board on quality, safety, and governance matters including the Integrated Performance and Quality Report (IPQR) and external quality reports on request. Patient Experience and Engagement Support initiatives to improve patient and family experience, ensuring systems are in place for effective feedback and patient engagement. Contribute to the management and learning from complaints, compliments, and patient surveys, ensuring trends are analysed and acted upon. Support co-production and engagement with patients in the design and evaluation of services. I.e. Patient advisory or support groups KEY RELATIONSHIPS Patients, families, and service users Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Executive Officer Deputy Chief Nurse Director of Operations Nursing Directors Clinical/Service Leads and nursing teams External regulators and partner organisations ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This role requires occasional travel across multiple sites within the organisation. The postholder will be expected to participate in the on-call rota for Senior Nursing as required. Safeguarding: Provision of care to meet health and wellbeing needs All staff must be familiar with, and adhere to, Pioneer child and adult protection procedures and guidelines, in conjunction with the Local Safeguarding childrens board (LSCB) and Adults safeguarding board (ASB) policies and procedures. Ensure that all clinical staff are familiar with their role and responsibility around safeguarding children and adults and to ensure that they have completed training at a level commensurate to their role. Records and reports the interventions consistent with legislation and relevant policies and procedures. Other These guidelines are provided to assist in the performance of the contract but are not a condition of the contract. The job description is not intended to be exhaustive, and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the post holder. In accordance with the Pioneer responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 to undertake work and alternative duties as reasonably directed at variable locations. Pioneer is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and as such, welcomes applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, marriage/civil partnership or gender reassignment. Pioneer expects all staff to behave in a way which recognises and respects this diversity, in line with the appropriate standards. Pioneer is a smoke free organisation and as such does not permit staff or patients to smoke in any Pioneer building or associated location. This post has been identified as involving access to vulnerable adults and or children and in line with Pioneer policy, successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Disclosure Check.