Tissue Viability and Skin Integrity Nurse Consultant in Norwich

Main area Tissue Viability and Skin Integrity Nurse Consultant Grade Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 839-8346720-BM

Employer East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Norwich Community Hospital Town Norfolk Salary £66,582 - £77,368 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 20/11/2026

Tissue Viability and Skin Integrity Nurse Consultant

Band 8b

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust delivers expert healthcare in people’s homes, community hospitals and local settings across the East of England.

Our nurses, therapists, clinicians, support teams and partners work together to provide coordinated care that supports independence, recovery and wellbeing. We believe people are best cared for close to home, in the communities where they live and belong.

By combining professional expertise with strong local relationships, we help people stay well, feel supported and access the right care at the right time. Expert healthcare, close to home, trusted by our communities.

Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed. Our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust is committed to creating a modern and inclusive work environment. We actively promote flexible working opportunities where possible to meet the needs and wishes of our workforce and maintain and improve their wellbeing. We also offer flexible working patterns and we would encourage you to discuss this with the recruiting manager before or during the application process if this would interest you.

We welcome applications from people who share our values and can help us deliver outstanding care in our local community.

Please note, the selection processes at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

Before applying for this vacancy, please make sure you’re familiar with ongoing GOV.uk sponsorship eligibility criteria which will impact the organisations ability to provide sponsorship, whether this is currently or in the future.

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.

Working for our organisation

Please be aware that East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust will never ask applicants to pay fees at any stage of the recruitment process, including job applications, sponsorship arrangements, or employment offers. All recruitment communications and job applications should only be made through our official careers website and published contact details.

If you receive a suspicious job offer or recruitment-related communication, do not make any payments, share personal information, or provide identity documents. We encourage you to report the matter to your local police or relevant law enforcement agency. Any concerns relating to potential recruitment fraud should also be reported to our Local Counter Fraud Specialist (LCFS) as soon as possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties & Responsibilities

The post holder will:

• 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.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

• 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
• Leadership and management qualification
• Doctoral level study, or evidence of working towards

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 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
• 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.
• Management within a community service
• Experience of contract management / negotiation /commissioning
• Evidence of publication, dissemination or presentation of research and innovation.

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

• 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

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.
• Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
• Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
• Advanced communication skills

Personal and People Development

• Experience of staff recruitment, induction, career development and appraisal.
• Experience of strategic deployment of workforce to deliver a service.

Personal Attributes / Behaviours

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

Other

• 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

Equal Opportunities - We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Disability Confident Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification). All sites are Smoke Free.

If you need this application in an offline format, please let us know.

Immigration Status– East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust is a diverse employer and welcomes all job applications. However, potential applicants should note that although the Trust is registered with the Home Office as a sponsor organisation for migrant workers, sponsorship can only be offered against Skilled Worker visas. If you are an applicant from outside the UK and do not already hold a self-gained right to work, we recommend you check the Home Office eligibility requirements before making an application.

Redeployment- Please note that in the first instance priority for this vacancy will be given to staff who are on the Trusts Redeployment Register.

DBS- this post may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Closing and Interview Dates-This vacancy may close early if sufficient applicants are received.

Data Protection-A privacy notice detailing how we will handle your data is attached to this advert as a document. Your application will be transferred to our recruitment management system (Trac) once the advert has closed and you will receive notification then detailing how Trac will handle your data.

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Our safe recruitment pre-employment checks are undertaken before an appointment is confirmed and may include a DBS check. Where the role requires you to drive, we'll ask you to validate your driving licence online via the DVLA.

In submitting an application, you authorise East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed.

ALL CORRESPONDENCE will be via the e-mail address on your application form. If you have not been invited to interview within 2 weeks of the closing date, you unfortunately haven’t been successful on this occasion, but keep an eye on our vacancies as a job that’s just right for you may appear!

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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