Responsibilities include assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care programs, providing expert advice and evidence-based interventions, and educating and training colleagues. Strong communication and organisational skills are essential, as the role requires independent work and the ability to collaborate effectively with clinical practitioners to improve the quality of care provided.
We are delighted to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and ambitious individual to join our team in the role of Wound Care Nurse. If you are the type of health professional who truly has the patient at the heart of everything you do and you want to work in a Trust that shares your values, then this might just be the perfect role for you. The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust (UHMBT) wants to provide sustainable high quality medical services that fit with the Better Care Together integrated model of care - high quality specialist hospital services wrapping around community based teams to deliver responsive specialist expertise within both acute hospital and community settings and helping to keep people well and to manage their long term conditions closer to home. We work as a multi-disciplinary team and you will have the opportunity to help develop and improve our pathways of care for our patients. We welcome applications from NMC registered nurses who are keen to advance their clinical, professional and leadership skills. This post provides opportunity for developing wound care, offloading and arterial assessment skills
In this role you will be responsible for delivering a high quality, accessible and timely evidence based clinical pathway for patients. You will work within both the community Podiatry service and in the outpatient/inpatient hospital setting at Westmorland General Hospital, where you will be responsible for the provision of care to the high risk foot. You will provide quality, evidence based clinical interventions, take responsibility for educating and training colleagues and support the community Podiatry team. You need to be an excellent communicator, able to work independently and confidently and possess well developed organisational skills.
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Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of evidence based care.
Provide expert advice to patients, carers/relatives, clinical practitioners and peers.
Provide expert evidence based practice.
Provide specialist education and training to others.
Work collaboratively and co-operatively with clinical colleagues to develop services and quality of care delivered.
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