About this role
Job summary
We are seeking a motivated, confident and clinically skilled Community Staff Nurse to join our specialist wound care service. This role is ideal for a nurse with a passion for wound management, who thrives both independently and within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment.
You will work within our community clinic settings, reviewing ambulant patients and delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to support safe and positive wound-healing outcomes. The role involves managing a varied caseload of complex wounds, utilising tissue viability guidance and vascular oversight to ensure safe, effective and innovative care planning.
Main duties of the job
You will work within our clinic settings, reviewing patients to support positive wound-healing outcomes. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include comprehensive wound assessments, wound reviews, treatment planning, ABPI studies, compression bandage assessment and application, and delivering holistic patient assessments.
You will be expected to deliver a consistently high standard of care, demonstrating a proactive approach to clinical practice and utilising innovative, evidence based - care planning to support optimal patient outcomes.
The role also requires competence in catheter care, nephrostomy management, and close collaborative working with wider services. You will work in partnership with patients to ensure a safe, effective and positive patient experience throughout their care journey.
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job description Job responsibilities
The Community Staff Nurse will provide highquality, evidencebased nursing care to patients requiring complex wound management within clinic settings. The postholder will work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective and positive woundhealing outcomes.
Clinic Duties. Deliver comprehensive wound assessments, reviews and treatment planning for patients with complex or chronic wounds.
Utilise specialist knowledge in tissue viability, vascular assessment, and lymphoedema management to inform safe and effective care pathways.
Apply advanced wound care techniques, including compression therapy, negative pressure wound therapy (if applicable), and specialist dressings.
Conduct ABPI studies and interpret results to guide compression therapy and vascular referral decisions.
Monitor wound progression, escalate concerns appropriately, and ensure timely intervention to optimise healing outcomes. Provide holistic nursing assessments, considering physical, psychological and social factors impacting wound healing.
Deliver safe and competent catheter care, including urethral and suprapubic catheter management.
Provide nephrostomy care, ensuring correct maintenance, monitoring and escalation of complications.
Administer medications in line with local policy, ensuring safe storage, documentation and patient education.
Maintain accurate, timely and professional clinical records in accordance with NMC standards and organisational policy.
Work closely with Tissue Viability Nurses, Vascular Teams, Lymphoedema Services, Podiatry, District Nursing and other communitybased services.
Participate in multidisciplinary discussions to support coordinated care planning and seamless patient pathways.
Engage patients and carers in shared decisionmaking, providing education and support to promote selfmanagement where appropriate.
Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives and the implementation of innovative care approaches.
Provide care within community clinic environments to ambulant patients requiring specialist wound care support.
Ensure a positive patient experience through compassionate communication, timely intervention and professional conduct.
Support safe caseload management and contribute to the smooth running of clinic operations.
Person Specification
Essential Essential
NMC qualification UK driving license wound care experience Nursing Degree
Desirable
Tissue Viability experience Lymphoedema experience Vascular experience Community Experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Address Phoenix Health Centre
Parkfields Road,
wolverhampton
WV46ED
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)