NursingNetUK

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Community Tissue Viability & Infection Prevention Team for a Leg Ulcer Specialist Nurse.

This is an exciting time to join an innovative and expanding team. 

This post will appeal to individuals with a passion for education and training. If you are a dynamic individual that embraces new challenges, then this is the job for you. This post will base in the Trafford community initially but with the future development of the service expansion to the Manchester area.

Join this innovative team and be part of driving and improving standards for patients and contributing to new strategies in the field of lower limb management. This rewarding role allows you as a practitioner to share your knowledge and skills with others around you ensuring best practice is at the centre of the care we deliver.

As a professional role model, you will provide direct and indirect clinical are, ensuring the needs of the patient are central to service deliver.  

 This is a Monday to Friday role, no weekend cover required.

A driving license and access to a car is an essential requirement for this role. Please can you state in your application form how you meet this requirement.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will monitor and improve standards of care through, supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues.

This post will focus on embedding best practice across the community in the area of leg ulceration and lower limb wounds.

The role will be to support the leg ulcer clinic and will be focused on providing specialist advice for patient's receiving care in Clinic, and patient homes. The post-holder will be integral in supporting nursing staff to embed Evidenced Based Practice into everyday practice. This will be achieved by providing clinical supervision at the point of care, team and one to one education. The development of measurable outcomes and continuous audit will be essential to inform the education strategy and measure success.

Be a part of improving the quality of life for our leg ulcer patients, by reducing their time to heal.

The post-holders will be supported to develop their clinical, leadership and education skills, using a robust education and training programme, alongside the use of a competency framework. This will support the delivery of evidenced based practice to service users for lower limb management.  

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.