Wound clinic nurse inGillingham inGillingham PUBLISHED
MON 6 JAN 2025
Medway Community Healthcare r4OWRY6l
Successful candidates will support senior wound therapists in managing clinic operations, oversee healthcare assistants, and mentor students and other visitors. Essential qualifications include being a registered nurse and having experience in wound care, with additional training in wound management preferred. The role requires flexibility, good communication skills, and the ability to make sound clinical decisions, making it ideal for motivated nurses eager to impact community health positively.
- Are you a skilled wound therapist with excellent interpersonal skills and sound clinical assessment skills?
- Do you have the confidence to work alone, putting the patient at the heart of what you do; and to get involved within a multi-disciplinary team?
If you answered yes, we've got the perfect role for you
This is a unique opportunity to work in our dedicated wound clinics which cover all types of wound and leg ulcer care across Medway.
This post is a varied role and will involve delivering based wound care; full assessments, implementation and evaluation of wound and leg ulcer care.
You will need to be flexible as the wound clinics operate 7 days a week across various locations in Medway.
To work as a member of the tissue viability and wound therapy service to undertake the nursing care of patients attending Medway Community Healthcare wound clinics, community nursing and leg ulcer clinics
To provide effective evidence based wound care including the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of plans of care, prescription of treatment and advice to patients who are seen by the service.
To support the senior wound therapist in the management of the clinics and take responsibility for allocating workload for short periods in the absence of the senior wound therapist with support.
To oversee the healthcare assistants in the team as required and support the senior team members with allocated students and other visitors to the clinic.
About us
Criteria
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
1st -2nd level registered nurse
Leg ulcer care
Independent prescribing
Post qualification study in wound management
Experience
Working as part of a team
Able to work under own initiative
Working in a health/social care environment
Experience of delivering wound care
Wound care
Working in the community / a clinic setting
Special knowledge / expertise
Clinical competence in core nursing care provision.
Evidence of continual professional development
Ability to plan and develop programmes of care/care packages
Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines
IT literate, word processing and use of the internet
Ability to demonstrate a sound knowledge of wound assessment
Awareness of Buurtzorg care model
Awareness of self-care principles
Disposition, adjustment, attitude and commitment
Flexibility and adaptability
Motivated to community work
Open and friendly
Team player
Supportive of colleagues
Practical / intellectual skills
Problem solving approach
Able to make clinically appropriate decisions.
Good collaboratively working skills
Evidence of ability to undertake complex problem solving
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