Nurse Specialist

Tissue Viability Project Lead. Exciting new opportunity working across Hartlepool and Stockton on Tees

Role: Tissue Viability Project Lead

Location: Hartlepool & Stockton on Tees - candidates must live within a reasonable travel distance to the area.

Salary: Negotiable competitive salary depending on experience, company car, additional package benefits

Role Type: Nurse Project Lead, Nurse Specialist

This is an exciting new opportunity to work as a Tissue Viability project Lead. Our client is developing a new service model within a Primary Care setting. We are looking to recruit a highly skilled Tissue Viability Nurse to work within a transformational project. The successful role holder will be part of a team creating a nursing service dedicated to delivering excellence in clinical care, consultancy, education and audit.

In this role you will build relationships with both local Primary Care Networks, GP Federations and the Company. You will undertake audits, deliver education and will coach other health care professionals along with carrying a clinical caseload.

This role will report into a Clinical Nurse Manager but will also have a dotted line report, from a governance perspective, into the Primary Care area you will be working in.

The successful candidate will be able to display empathy and have an excellent ability to develop trust. To do this you will have excellent communication skills, including listening, interpersonal and influencing skills.

In this role you will:

Set up a tissue viability service in an agreed, specified area where a partnership opportunity has been identified and agreed upon by both the Company and local stakeholders.

Lead the local implementation of the new Tissue Viability service model.

Plan, implement and run the local project, engaging all relevant stakeholders.

Drive and influence changes required for successful outcome of the project, for the Company, Primary Care Networks, GP Federations and Patients.

Plan service delivery aligned to local needs.

Use a range of skills to proactively monitor the overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate.

Demonstrate leadership capabilities to influence, educate and train local health care professionals on the highest levels of tissue viability practice.

Undertake the delivery of clinical caseload using an evidence-based approach to promote excellence.

Acting as a Clinical expert to a range of health care professionals within Primary Care.

Teaching patients/carers and providing support to patients/carers to ensure self-care by patients and/or their carers is safe and effective.

The client is the world's leading supplier of intimate healthcare products and services operating across Ostomy Care, Continence Care, Urology Care and Wound and Skin Care markets. Wound Care in this company is entering an exciting phase of its development in the UK. With an expanding portfolio of products, the division is delivering exceptional results and the ambition of the Wound Care team is to be the fastest growing Wound Care company globally

Qualifications:

Degree level Registered General Nurse.

Post graduate qualification in Tissue Viability.

Full UK drivers’ licence.

The Person/Experience:

Experience at a senior nursing level of leading and driving a service of change and ability to evidence the outcomes of that change.

Recent clinical expertise and clinical competence in tissue viability including leg ulcer management.

Demonstrable competence in leading teaching programmes and in presentation skills.

Experience in undertaking/collaborating in research, clinical audit and service improvement in order to understand and source new solutions.

Excellent communication skills, including listening, interpersonal and influencing skills.

To Apply 

If you are suitable for this position, please send a copy of your CV. Alternatively call the recruitment team at Chemistree Solutions Ltd. Chemistree is a pharmaceutical and healthcare recruitment specialist.