Job summary

A Specialist Clinical Practitioner in Tissue Viability provide expert clinical care for patients within community, Nursing residential homes and acute sites. The post holder will have specialist knowledge and skills in Tissue viability assessment, and how long-term conditions, frailty, physical assessment, impact these conditions.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will use clinical reasoning, diagnostic reasoning and independent prescribing to assist in the recognition of early symptoms of tissue viability conditions and skin trauma and injuries.
• The post holder will undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical and psycho-social care needs of tissue viability patients who may also have complex chronic disease. Formulating a clinical management plan. This will involve gathering and interpreting information, performing tests and analysing the results, arranging onward referral if deemed necessary.
• The post holder will coordinate care and services to be delivered within primary care for patients during an acute episode of illness also if appropriate supporting discharge from hospital. Working in partnership with primary, secondary care and other appropriate agencies, including the voluntary sector.
• To prescribe safe effective and appropriate medication as defined by legislative framework and/or agreed protocols and guidelines.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.