Clinical Manager of Plastic Dressing Clinic in Durham inDurham PUBLISHED MON 31 MAR 2025 Jump to job information section

The purpose of the Band 6 Clinical Lead Nurse is to provide expert clinical advice to the Plastic Dressing team across all hospital sites, integrating into existing surgical teams within the plastic surgery specialty. The post holder will provide expert care across County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. It may be required that expertise may be needed in the community where Plastic Services are delivered.

The leadership and management of the Plastic Dressing Clinic.

To be a core member of the multidisciplinary team working closely with plastic surgeons.

The management of a caseload of designated patients.

Coordination and delivery of care to patients who are referred to the Plastic Dressing Clinic.

To act as a role model for nursing practice in the Plastic Dressing Clinic.

To work together with other members of the multidisciplinary team to provide optimal care throughout all aspects of the patients care pathway.

To provide high quality information to patients and carer on their treatment and care.

Work across professional boundaries to provide seamless care.

To provide specialist education, clinical nursing advice and leadership to other health care professionals within Plastic Dressing Clinic and outside Organisations with regards to the dressing of wounds.

Assessment of wounds and the development of a treatment plan.

Carry out appraisals be a source of expertise for junior members of staff providing guidance and teaching to ensure safe effective practice.

Be involved in the development of policies and procedures within the Plastic Dressing Clinic

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To ensure that nursing care is provided which meets or exceeds the level of patient expectations

To manage the delivery of nursing care, deploying staff effectively and ensuring appropriate delegation to junior MDT members

To monitor standards of record keeping ensuring adherence to NMC guidelines

To lead the Plastic Dressing team implementing quality indicators.

To promote an effective learning environment within the unit facilitating staff development and team working

Conduct staff appraisals

Resolve conflict at unit level, diffuse situations and challenge poor behaviour when witnessed or reported

Assist and provide support to develop the Plastic Dressing team ensuring good working practices and evidence based protocols to deliver excellent services for Ophthalmology patients.

To lead clinical practice within the Plastic Dressing Clinic. Assessing needs, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care, whilst being an effective role model, promoting effective communication with all disciplines internally and across divisional boundaries, within the Trust.

Support the Ward Manager in investigations.

Communicate with patients to enable them to make informed choices about their health and health care.

To clinically assess and be accountable for a defined caseload which will incorporate medical history taking, clinical examination of skin cancer patients and those requiring plastic surgery

Holistically assess and identify health and psychosocial needs of individual patients, and plan programmes of care to meet these needs in partnership with the patient and their significant others.

To maintain a nurse led outpatient service

Request and interpret appropriate diagnostics

Undertakes training and maintains their competency in debridement of wounds.

Interprets diagnostic results and discusses the results at multidisciplinary teams

Use advanced interpersonal skills to impart sensitive, complex and potentially distressing information to patients and carers providing them with emotional support as appropriate community, specialist and other health care professionals delivering holistic care.

To educate and provide advice on symptom control, wound management and psychosocial matters to multi-disciplinary teams.

Work with other specialist teams to ensure appropriate timely care

Undertake appropriate training to progress the role of the Plastic Dressing Clinic.

Assist in evaluation of the service and patient care.

Undertake or be involved in audit of the services

Be proactive in supporting service change contributing to the development of protocols, documents. Policies and clinical guidelines for others to use to support clinical practice.

To establish and maintain nurse lead follows up clinics for Plastic Surgery patients.

To manage clinic activity.

To provide support to consultants, medical and nursing team.

To develop when necessary protocols and standard operational procedures.