Registed Nurse, Plastic Dressings

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Plastics Dressings Clinic Nurse . This is an ideal role for a motivated proactive individual with plastics / wound care knowledge and experience to join our team . This post will include cross site cover, whilst we work predominantly at the UHCW site , we also cover Rugby St Cross on an Monday afternoon.

Please note this post is not suitable for applicants who are required to undertake the OSCE training programme. Applicants who do not have current valid UK NMC registration will not be considered for this post.

The successful candidate must have post-preceptorship experience.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

• Provide safe, effective and compassionate nursing care to patients attending the plastic dressing clinic.
• Assess wounds, including size, depth, tissue type, exudate, odour, surrounding skin and signs of infection.
• Assess and manage post-operative wounds, grafts, flaps, donor sites and complex wounds within the nurse’s competence.
• Undertake VAC/NPWT dressing changes following appropriate training and competency assessment.
• Maintain aseptic technique and infection prevention and control standards during wound care.
• Monitor patients for complications
• Escalate concerns promptly to the relevant healthcare professional.
• Provide patient education
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation, including wound assessment, dressing products, patient tolerance and escalation
• Take and upload wound photographs in accordance with local policy and consent requirements.
• Liaise with members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Arrange appropriate follow-up appointments
• Recognise safeguarding concerns and follow relevant Trust safeguarding procedures.
• Maintain patient confidentiality and comply with NMC Code, Trust policies and professional standards.
• Maintain professional competence through mandatory training, CPD and competency-based training.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct.Contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
• Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to patients/carers and the multi-professional team including situations where difficulties in comprehension occur.
• A competent practitioner, teaching, assessing and supervising/providing mentorship to appropriate students or junior staff.
• Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients and management of a team, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented and evaluated, involving patients and users.
• Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities to support patient care pathways.
• Demonstrate technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient care management including; patient observations; equipment management and administration of agreed invasive tests/procedures.
• Utilise and ensure others utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data.
• Manage expected (and occasional unexpected) clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need, referring to a senior member of staff where appropriate e.g. in an unexpected event.
• Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g. imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
• Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.

For further details please see the attached job description.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.