# Tissue Viability and Skin Integrity Nurse Consultant > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/tissue-viability-and-skin-integrity-nurse-consultant/9c976ecf-2b3b-4afc-9dff-e69ab2f1e00a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/tissue-viability-and-skin-integrity-nurse-consultant/9c976ecf-2b3b-4afc-9dff-e69ab2f1e00a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust - **Location:** Norwich Community Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 Per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-08T00:00:23.807Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Norfolk/East_England_Community_Health_Care_NHS_Trust/Tissue_Viability_Skin_Integrity_Nurse_Consultant/Tissue_Viability_Skin_Integrity_Nurse_Consultant-v8346720 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8346720?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.eastofenglandcommunityhealthandcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking an experienced and inspirational Tissue Viability and Skin Integrity Nurse Consultant to provide expert clinical and professional leadership across East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust and the wider health and care system. ### Main duties of the job - Provide expert clinical leadership for tissue viability and skin integrity services across the Trust. - Influence strategic decision-making relating to wound care, pressure ulcer prevention and skin integrity. - Provide highly complex clinical advanced assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and evaluation. - Lead Trust-wide quality improvement programmes relating to tissue viability and skin integrity. - Develop clinical standards, policies, pathways and governance frameworks across Norfolk Adults and across East of England Community Health and Care. - Responsible for the day-to-day line management of Tissue Viability Specialist Nurses, Skin Integrity Clinical Leads and the Principal Podiatrist. - Provide specialist consultancy to clinical teams, managers and executive leaders. - Lead education and competency development programmes across the workforce. - Influence service development regionally and nationally through professional networks and research activity. - Support the management of a designated budget and procurement decisions relating to specialist wound care products and equipment. - Lead investigations of serious incidents, pressure ulcers, coroners requests and complex complaints relating to tissue viability and skin integrity care. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Main Duties & Responsibilities The post holder will: - · ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Team working skills - Self-motivated - Ability to move between details and the bigger picture - Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values. - Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop - 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. - Must hold full and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle - Able to communicate effectively in written and verbal English Language ### Experience **Essential** - 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 of advanced level practice - Experience of managing services and people in a health setting (NHS or other) - Experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures service wide - Understanding of audit/ research and assessing evidence - Experience of managing budgets and HR staffing issues - Evidence of leading major transformation programmes with measurable outcomes - Evidence of service improvements with positive patient outcomes - Experience of collaborating with commissioners, Integrated Care Boards and regional partners. - Leadership skills to deliver strategic policy and initiatives - Experience of leading research, innovation or service evaluation programmes. **Desirable** - Management within a community service - Experience of contract management / negotiation /commissioning - Evidence of publication, dissemination or presentation of research and innovation. ### Communication **Essential** - 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. - Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts - Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others. **Desirable** - Advanced communication skills ### Qualifications & Training **Essential** - Educated to MSc Professional Practice (Tissue Viability) and equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area. - Member of relevant professional body **Desirable** - Leadership and management qualification - Doctoral level study, or evidence of working towards ### Personal and People Development **Essential** - Experience of staff recruitment, induction, career development and appraisal. - Experience of strategic deployment of workforce to deliver a service. ### Skills, Abilities and Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales. - Interpreting national policy for implementation - Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery. - Ability to demonstrate measurable impact through quality, safety and outcome indicators. - Expertise in partnership working across healthcare systems. - Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations - Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution - Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time. - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills. - Ability to gain credibility with clinical staff within health and partner agencies ### Personal Attributes / Behaviours **Essential** - Able to identify with the Trust’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults. ## Documents - [dbs guidance (pdf, 131.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2219) - [nchc behaviours (pdf, 4.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2218) - [privacy notice (pdf, 30.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2215) - [job description (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10671638) - [application guidelines (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2216) - [tissue viability and skin integrity nurse consultant person specification (pdf, 88.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10671637) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.