Job summary
- Main area
- Tissue Viability
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 150-MT1770-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sackville House
- Town
- Lewes
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/06/2025
Employer heading
Lead Tissue Viability Nurse
Band 8a
Job overview
This post holder will be able to lead the strategy to improve wound management across Sussex, to maximize promote and support excellent quality of wound care across the primary care and community services including care homes, practices, community nurses and Tissue Viability Colleagues.
The post-holder will be leading wound product optimization, to ensure the wound management budget is optimally managed, including product costs, evidence, practical experience, quality, and waste, working with other healthcare professionals involved in wound management across Sussex.
This post will be employed and hosted by Sussex Community Foundation Trust but the successful candidate will be working within the Sussex ICB medicines optimisation team to deliver the duties of the job.
This role is based at Sackville House, Lewes, but the base is negotiable as the position covered Sussex.
Main duties of the job
- To have overall responsibility for the management of all wound management related projects in Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB)
- To be responsible for monitoring of ONPOS and FP10 prescribing of wound management products and investigating areas of unexplained expenditure.
- Liaise with the Hospital and Primary care & Community services, to ensure these organisations respect the Sussex Health & Care Partnership Wound Management Formulary, including their use of appropriate Formulary processes if they wish to request additions to the Formulary
- Lead the provision of wound management education for up-skilling primary care clinicians to manage, prescribe and review prescribing of wound care products for their patients.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further details of the role:
- To be a key member of the Sussex Wound Formulary Group, lead on a share of new product and chapter reviews, and to provide evidence and cost effectiveness evaluation for work done by other teams as part of the consultation process. These need to be of a quality suitable for presentation to the Sussex Health & Care Partnership Area Prescribing Committee,
- To mentor and support others preparing wound management papers for the Area Prescribing Committee
- To work alongside the Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy technician for wound care in the ICB providing clinical expertise and leadership.
- Matrix management responsibility of staff employed by the ICB involved in wound care
- Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise
- Requirement to travel to sites across Sussex to meet stakeholders
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse
- Extensive knowledge of Tissue Viability acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the Strategic Health Authority and individual provider and comm
- Nursing Degree
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification (Masters) in Tissue Viability
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems for Sussex.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long- term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
Desirable criteria
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Good teaching and presentation skills
- Evidence of teaching a variety of health professionals
Desirable criteria
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Effective organizer, influencer and networker
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Car owner with current driving license
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katherine Regan
- Job title
- Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07900122866
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