About this role
Job 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.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications and knowledge Essential
Registered Nurse with current NMC registration Awareness of the National Guidelines relevant to tissue viability Knowledge of contemporary wound dressings and technologies Knowledge of and interest in quality improvement techniques Knowledge of different types of therapy equipment
Desirable
Graduate with relevant degree or equivalent Teaching qualification Recognised tissue viability qualification (level 3) D Understand the principles of Governance, particularly in relation to their service area
Experience Essential
Evidence of experience and knowledge in Tissue Viability Experience of leading a team (Band 6) Experience of supporting other practitioners to deliver high quality care Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team Ability to work autonomously and to prioritise and co-ordinate workload Ability to work under pressure High standards of record keeping and report writing Experience of leading QI projects Experience of formal and informal teaching
Skills Essential
Able to evidence clinical knowledge and skills in tissue viability, holistic patient assessment, complex wound assessment, treatment planning and evaluation High level of personal professional accountability and working autonomously to achieve agreed objectives Ability to negotiate and influence people to achieve change Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritise effectively Capable of working with clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels, displaying excellent customer service skills Excellent organisational skills with flexibility to adapt when required Skills in teaching registered and unregistered staff, multi-disciplinary team, carers and patients both formally and informally Have good flexible influencing and motivating skills
Personal and people development Essential
Evidence of continued professional development Up to date with local and national issues related to tissue viability and nursing practice Determined and self- motivated individual Ability to lead by example and effect change in others
Communication Essential
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to maintain communication with people on complex and at times sensitive matters Experience of presentation skills to a wide and varied audience Ability to communicate ideas and information to audiences at all levels through a range of media Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience of training and writing reports that include data analysis.
Desirable
Experience of presentation skills to a wide and varied audience Ability to communicate ideas and information to audiences at all levels through a range of media Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience of training and writing reports that include data analysis.
Specific requirements Essential
Assertive but professional Self- motivated, proactive, and resourceful Strategic thinker and able to pay attention to detail where necessary Sufficient to perform the duties of the post with any aids and adaptations if necessary
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Barts Health NHS Trust
Address Newham University Hospital
Glen Road
London
E13 8SL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)