Leg Ulcer Clinic Nurse Specialist in Braintree

We are looking for a Leg Ulcer Clinic Nurse. Provide has lower limb clinics in Maldon, Braintree and Chelmsford. The successful candidate will be expected to work across the clinics assessing and reviewing patients with lower limb wounds often with complex health needs. The aim is to assess patients within 2 weeks as per NWCS lower limb recommendations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in managing the caseload.
• Liaise with the tissue viability team.
• Liaise with other health care professionals where further input is required to support patients.
• Work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner to pro-actively monitor and anticipate changing needs of patients with lower limb wounds.
• Provide advanced clinical care using high level assessment to make a diagnosis, initiate medical/nursing treatments, refer appropriately and co-ordinate the patients' journey across all parts of the health, social care and voluntary sector systems whether in clinic or home setting.
• Improve clinical outcomes for patients by enabling them to function independently by increasing their choice to remain in their own home, community and reduce the need for, or prevent inappropriate hospital admission.
• Assist in providing a clinic leg ulcer service for patients in the Mid Essex locality, including clinical care, education and training for patients and staff.
• Develop, implement and evaluate programs of care, setting standards of care, including nurse prescribing.
• Maintain a high standard of patient focused care reflecting an inter-disciplinary approach to self-management.
• Manage a defined caseload, including liaison with other agencies and, where appropriate, the supervision and teaching of staff and/or students.
• Establish and promote joint working with other services across professional and organisational boundaries.
• Develop good communication links with patients and carers and the tissue viability service.

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks. We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Andrea McDonald Job title: Divisional Operation Lead Email address: andrea.mcdonald1@nhs.net Telephone number: 07580912256