Senior Wound Care Nurse

Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare or working on the Staff Bank within these organisations. Nursing and AHP vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses/AHPs.

We are seeking a Band 6 Wound Clinic Team Leader to join our Tissue Viability and Wound Therapy Service, providing high-quality, evidence-based wound care to patients attending Medway Community Healthcare wound clinics.

The successful candidate will work as part of a specialised multidisciplinary team, assessing patient needs, developing and evaluating personalised care plans, and delivering appropriate wound treatment, prescribing, advice and support to promote healing and improve outcomes.

You will support the effective day-to-day management of wound clinics, assist the Senior Wound Therapist, and lead workload allocation during short periods of absence. The role includes providing leadership, supervision and development support to Healthcare Assistants, students and visitors, ensuring safe, compassionate and high-quality care aligned with current evidence and best practice.

If you are an experienced clinician with excellent leadership and communication skills, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Assess, treat and monitor patients attending
• wound clinics, delivering evidence-based wound care and evaluating treatment outcomes.
• Conduct comprehensive wound assessments and develop individualised care plans in collaboration with patients and the multidisciplinary team.
• Provide education, advice and support to patients, families and carers to promote wound healing, self-management and health improvement.
• Communicate effectively with GPs, community services, care homes, hospitals and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated patient care.
• Organise and prepare clinic sessions, prioritising workloads and managing appointments to meet patient needs efficiently

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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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.