Job Description:
Job Title Tissue Viability Nurse
Contract: Permanent - 37.5 hours per week
Location: Nationwide and some WFH
Salary: £55,000 plus company car as benefit in kind (Essential for fulfilling the requirements of the role)
Working closely with our clinical teams across the UK you will promote strategies to improve tissue viability within our care homes
How you'll help us make health happen:
- Lead clinical excellence in tissue viability by providing expert guidance on advanced wound therapies and supporting clinicians in creating effective care plans.
- Drive quality improvement through monitoring incidents, identifying trends, and leading initiatives to reduce pressure ulcers and improve skin integrity outcomes.
- Champion education and best practice by promoting evidence-based care, delivering targeted training, and building networks of tissue viability specialists across the business.
- Collaborate and innovate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance equipment usage, implement policies, and develop nurse-led clinics for complex wound management.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
- Active NMC Registration
- Minimum 1 years previous experience in role of Tissue Viability environment
- Teaching/training experience
- digital system and excel capability
- Experience in advanced therapies in wound management including compression bandaging and negative pressure wound therapy
- Knowledge of current advances in wound care and pressure ulcer management
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing.
- 25 days holiday (Exclusive of bank holidays), increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell. 3 Volunteer days per year.
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan
- Life insurance (7x salary)
- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
- Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
Care Home - Clinical Management
Locations:
Angel Court, London, Ardenlea Grove, Bupa Place, Home Based c/o Kirkstall Forge, Parkside (Reading)
