Clinical Nurse Specialist Tissue Viability

Clinical Nurse Specialist Tissue Viability
Company: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job ID: C9348-26-2340
Closing date: 08 November 2026

Job summary
The clinical nurse specialist will participate in the provision and delivery of a specialist Trust wide tissue viability service. Including Manging the tissue viability team and providing specialist clinical advice and support.

The post holder will be required to work closely with the multidisciplinary team and also work autonomously, exercising clinical expertise in tissue viability. They must also possess knowledge and skills in clinical risk assessment and evaluation, pressure ulcer prevention strategies, management of complex wounds, change management and the provision of staff support and training across organisational and professional boundaries.

The post holder will also be required to participate in formal and informal education and relevant audit activities.

Main duties of the job

• To manage, develop and provide a tissue viability service in a variety of Primary Care settings including residential homes, nursing homes, GP surgeries, and home.
• To provide service that is evidence-based, patient centred and appropriate to patients and their relatives and carers needs.
• To work as a specialist, in the management of patients with compromised tissue viability. Demonstrating a higher level of knowledge and practice to provide expertise to all healthcare professionals, patients and their carers in the Trust and to external organisations.
• To be responsible for providing a high standard of specialist tissue viability patient-centred nursing care through on-going assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care working.
• To be recognised as a skilled practitioner in Tissue Viability by colleague by demonstrating and sharing skills and knowledge to enhance patient care.
• Be aware of ethical dilemmas in patient care, acting as patients advocate, and be able to convey to patients and carers the best plan of treatment.
• Be able to act as key worker for each individual patient.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with other agencies, statutory and voluntary to ensure a seamless service and continuity of patient care.
• Refer to other professional for more specialist advice as appropriate. For example, vascular surgeons, Podiatry, Orthotics, other CNSs in order to effectively plan and co-ordinate patient care.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Details
Band: Band 7
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year based on full time hours
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 348-IOW-12893

Person Specification
Qualifications (Essential)

• Registered General Nurse.
• Relevant post registration qualifications and experience in an area relevant to Tissue Viability
• Teaching qualification or willingness to undertake
• Trained and competent in pressure ulcer prevention and management
• Wound assessment and management
• Leg ulcer assessment and management

Experience (Essential)

• Relevant post registration qualifications and experience in an area relevant to Tissue Viability.
• Advanced knowledge and skills in wound care.
• Ability to lead, manage, supervise, co-ordinate and organise a team.
• Management of clinical caseload autonomously.
• Able to prioritise within competing priorities and deliver on deadlines.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills and ability to maintain accurate records.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to work in multi-disciplinary environments
• Proficient with the use of IT systems.
• Can assist in identifying and delivering Trust wide training needs in tissue viability.
• Experience of leadership and management.
• Be flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities.
• Knowledge of National agendas and the effect on practice e.g. National wound care strategy and relevant best practice statements
• Advanced person-centred assessment for the health and well-being of patients with complex needs.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Contact
Hiring Manager: Matron for Specialist Nurses, Dominic Spillane
Email: d.spillane@nhs.net
Phone: 01983214678

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