Staff Nurse - Complex Wound Team

This is an exciting and rare opportunity to join the Complex Wound Team. We are offering 30 hours per week, working within our Complex wound Clinics across the North Lincolnshire area. The post holder will support the delivery of safe and effective patient services by facilitating the provision of the most recent clinically effect researched based, cost-effective tissue viability/chronic wound advice to trust staff and primary care for complex cases. A key aspect of the role will be monitoring the effectiveness of tissues viability/chronic wound interventions, provide specialist advise of best practice relating to all aspects of tissue Viability in line with both local and national guidance to al staff, patients, and carers. To identify training needs and provide training in chronic wound management. To maintain close links with relevant services in primary and secondary care settings to ensure clients receive a seamless service. A collaborative approach is essential working within the multi-disciplinary team to provide comprehensive patient focused care. The post holder should demonstrate an awareness of local and national nursing agendas.,

• Provide expert advisory and consultative services to health care professionals across community and primary care and secondary care settings.
• Provide support, supervision and education to clients, carer's and relatives with specialist care needs.
• Provide support and guidance within the interdisciplinary team to effect the modernisation of specialist care services.
• Have responsibility for the assessment of care needs and the implementation and evaluation of client care for a specific caseload.
• Facilitate a pathway of care between primary and secondary care settings by developing strong links with secondary and primary care to provide a seamless service for people with specialist needs.
• Participate in teaching and developing all other interdisciplinary staff and statutory, voluntary agencies about tissue viability using a variety of effective and comprehensive methods.
  
  The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH. As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology. We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.