Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge and Experience
Previous experience working within an acute healthcare setting.
- Knowledge and Experience
Evidence of continual professional development.
- Knowledge and Experience
Excellent communication skills.
- Knowledge and Experience
Good organisational skills: able to plan own work while being able to work effectively within a team.
- Knowledge and Experience
Ability to prioritise and make decisions sometimes under pressure while maintaining best practice.
- Knowledge and Experience
Ability to use a range of IT applications including IPM, Excel and Word.
- Knowledge and Experience
Has good understanding of safeguarding.
- Education and Qualifications
Registered Nurse with degree level qualification or equivalent.
- Education and Qualifications
Good verbal and written English language skills.
- Education and Qualifications
Ability to maintain accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronically and handwritten in line with trust policies and NMC code of conduct.
- Personal Qualities and Circumstances
Patient focused.
- Personal Qualities and Circumstances
Self-motivated, Pro-active and resourceful.
- Personal Qualities and Circumstances
Acts as a role model for others.
- Personal Qualities and Circumstances
Confident and assertive.
- Personal Qualities and Circumstances
Ability to work flexibly over a 7 days service to meet the requirements of the job role.
- Personal Qualities and Circumstances
Ability to drive or ensure able to arrive at work as per shift requirements.
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge and Experience
1 year wound care experience.
- Knowledge and Experience
Knowledge of current professional issues in relation to wound care. Participated in clinical audit.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and ambitious candidate to join the Central Treatment Suite Team as a Tissue Viability Staff Nurse. You will work closely with the Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist and assist in the delivery of internal and external quality standards, ensuring patients receive treatment in the timeliest way possible.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will undertake work in all aspects of tissue viability, including general wound care, pressure area management and leg ulcer care, in order to enable cost effective high quality continuity of care for all patients, staff and students working within the trust.
The post holder will also participate in audits and teaching of staff undertaking placements in the Central Treatment Suite and collaborate with outside agencies such as the community nursing services to uphold working relationships where required.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a detailed job description and overview of main responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
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.
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This advert is for Tissue Viability Staff Nurse with James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Gorleston-on-Sea, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Staff nurse role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 27 Oct 2026.
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