Tissue Viability and Skin Integrity Nurse Consultant

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Other

  Team working skills

• Other

  Self-motivated

• Other

  Ability to move between details and the bigger picture

• Other

  Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.

• Other

  Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop

• Other

  The post holder will need to be passed fit to perform full duties of the post through occupational health with any reasonable aids and adaptations.

• Other

  Must hold full and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle

• Other

  Able to communicate effectively in written and verbal English Language

• Experience

  Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent

• Experience

  Experience of advanced level practice

• Experience

  Experience of managing services and people in a health setting (NHS or other)

• Experience

  Experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures service wide

• Experience

  Understanding of audit/ research and assessing evidence

• Experience

  Experience of managing budgets and HR staffing issues

• Experience

  Evidence of leading major transformation programmes with measurable outcomes

• Experience

  Evidence of service improvements with positive patient outcomes

• Experience

  Experience of collaborating with commissioners, Integrated Care Boards and regional partners.

• Experience

  Leadership skills to deliver strategic policy and initiatives

• Experience

  Experience of leading research, innovation or service evaluation programmes.

• Communication

  Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.

• Communication

  Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts

• Communication

  Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.

• Qualifications & Training

  Educated to MSc Professional Practice (Tissue Viability) and equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

• Qualifications & Training

  Member of relevant professional body

• Personal and People Development

  Experience of staff recruitment, induction, career development and appraisal.

• Personal and People Development

  Experience of strategic deployment of workforce to deliver a service.

• Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.

• Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Interpreting national policy for implementation

• Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.

• Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Ability to demonstrate measurable impact through quality, safety and outcome indicators.

• Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Expertise in partnership working across healthcare systems.

• Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations

• Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution

• Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.

• Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.

• Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

  Ability to gain credibility with clinical staff within health and partner agencies

• Personal Attributes / Behaviours

  Able to identify with the Trust’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults.