Junior Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 30 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £45,953 - £54,254 per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2026 |
| Location: | London, E13 8SL |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7930605/259-7930605NUH |
Summary
Band 6 Junior Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist – Whipps Cross Hospital (Secondment Opportunity)
Join us in transforming patient care through excellence in skin health and wound management.
An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen within the Tissue Viability team at Whipps Cross Hospital. We are a supportive, forward‑thinking service dedicated to delivering outstanding patient‑centred care, innovation, and continuous improvement in tissue viability practice.
As a Band 6 Junior Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, you will play a vital role in ensuring patients receive safe, effective, and compassionate specialist care. This is a development-focused role designed to help you grow your expertise, leadership skills, and clinical influence across the organisation.
• Provide expert, holistic assessment and management of patients with complex wounds, promoting optimal healing and preservation of skin integrity.
• Support the delivery and evaluation of tissue viability initiatives that improve patient outcomes and uphold dignity.
• Offer specialist advice, education, and support to multidisciplinary teams, empowering colleagues to deliver consistent, safe, evidence‑based care.
• Contribute to clinical governance, quality improvement, and service development projects within the team.
• Participate in the delivery of teaching sessions and training programmes across clinical areas.
• Work collaboratively across Barts Health, providing cross-site support to the wider Tissue Viability service when required.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Main duties, responsibilities and results areas
Professional Development
• Proactively identify areas for development in clinical, professional and leadership skills to support the ongoing improvement of Tissue Viability services in line with Trust values, quality standards and professional requirements, including NMC revalidation.
• Take responsibility for meeting personal, professional, educational and developmental needs.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant research, national guidance, best practice, and emerging trends related to Tissue Viability and nursing.
• Actively participate in local and national professional networks that promote the development of Tissue Viability practice and service standards.
• Engage in regular clinical supervision to reflect on practice, enhance professional competency, and support continuous improvement.
Clinical responsibilities
• Support clinical areas in the prevention, early detection and management of skin damage.
• Continually reflect on, maintain and develop clinical skills and knowledge within Tissue Viability.
• Act as a clinical resource for the assessment and management of patients with skin damage, wounds or at risk of wound development.
• Review, prioritise and manage referrals in accordance with the Tissue Viability referral pathway, identifying those requiring direct review or escalation to other services.
• Undertake holistic patient assessments, including risk factors, wound assessment,
co-morbidities, and safeguarding considerations, seeking support from the Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist when required.
• Supported by the Senior Tissue Viability Nurse Specialists, provide advice on appropriate wound care and skin management plans, ensuring care is evidence-based and tailored to individual need.
• Support clinical teams to implement and follow wound care and skin damage prevention pathways, including:
- Pressure ulcer risk screening
- Skin inspection (ASSKING bundle)
- Pressure ulcer classification (EPUAP)
- Assessment of non-pressure ulcer wound aetiologies
- Comprehensive wound assessment, including measurement/tracing of deep or complex wounds
- Application and removal of complex dressings (e.g., NPWT, PICO, Larval therapy)
- Re-positioning strategies and pressure off-loading techniques
- Advice on selection and correct use of equipment, report faults, and escalate when action is not taken by clinical teams.
• Facilitate timely referral to internal/external specialists and support services.
• Promote and support accurate incident reporting of skin damage.
• Submit incident reports where delays in care or inappropriate treatment are identified.
• Contribute to MDT discussions and complex discharge planning for patients requiring ongoing wound care in the community.
Management and Leadership
• Contribute to the development, review and implementation of Trust guidelines, policies and care pathways relating to skin damage prevention and complex wound management, ensuring alignment with national guidance.
• Demonstrate We Care values to foster collaborative working, support positive change and promote a healthy team culture.
• Support and protect the Trust’s reputation by escalating service concerns and complaints through appropriate channels, seeking to de-escalate where appropriate.
• Escalate service issues and concerns to the line manager while aiming to resolve matters promptly and prevent formal complaints when possible.
• Promote and advocate for patient-centred, evidence-based, cost-effective care in all professional activities.
• Participate in shared learning and service development in line with PSIRF and LFPSE frameworks.
• Systematically log advice and communications to support accurate activity data collection.
• Maintain high-quality, accurate records in accordance with Trust information governance requirements and NMC record-keeping standards.
• Support the development and implementation of documentation relevant to the Tissue Viability service.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
This advert closes on Thursday 14 May 2026