The closing date is 11 September 2025
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata
Job summary
The Leg Ulcer Specialist Nurse is a member of the Leg Ulcer Specialist team supporting countywide place based teams, promoting research-based practice in leg ulcer management with an emphasis on prevention and proactive management of complex and chronic wound management through education, role modelling and audit. It will be necessary to work individually and as part of a team across professional boundaries, providing comprehensive care that is sensitive to the needs or the patient population.
Job responsibilities
Knowledge skills and experience required:
Provides clinical expertise, specialist advice, support and information across the leg ulcer management spectrum to other healthcare workers, patients and families
Assists with development and facilitation of the leg ulcer prevention and wound management pathways for SWFT ensuring they reflect current best practice guidelines
Evaluate research findings and facilitate evidence based practice
Support the lead nurse in updating Leg Ulcer practice
Undertakes advanced holistic wound and leg ulcer assessment, including planning, implementation, evaluation and reassessment. This will necessitate high levels of autonomy and advocacy.
Disseminate research findings and knowledge by pursuing opportunities to present work at national conferences or via publications
Establishes priorities of care in accordance with caseload/workload priority
Promote and implement evidence based practice
Measurable Result areas:
Ensure effective use of resources
Actively contribute to audit and research programmes within the realm of the specialty
To undertake investigations working with multi- professional team
Contributes to decision making process in relation to leg ulcer management
Reviews and investigates clinical incidents in relation to leg ulcers using clinical judgement to ensure accuracy and consistency using the incident reporting system
Attend regional and national conferences and disseminate information to the team
Demonstrates responsibility for own and others professional development via Performance Review Framework
Undertakes policy review and assists in development of new policies and procedures in line with current best practice and Trust requirement
Demonstrate continuous evaluation of practice and make changes where appropriate, within the defined speciality.
Communications and Working Relationships:
Develop and maintain effective communication with all levels of healthcare professionals across numerous SWFT departments, statutory and voluntary organisations.
Will participate in the development and deliver informal training and formal training programmes to patients, multi-professional team and external delegates.
Develops educational and promotional materials as part of shared learning
To be actively involved in supporting students learning
Refer and liaise with other specialist services to enhance patient care, for example, vascular, diabetologist
Provide clinical support and education for advanced wound care therapies
Be an accessible role model for students and multi-professional who is enthusiastic to share knowledge/skills and best practice
Attend multi-disciplinary team meetings
Support the development of the Leg Ulcer Link Nurse System
Undertake clinical supervision of nursing colleagues on an individual and group basis
To promote and maintain accurate record keeping conforming to NMC standards and Data Protection.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (1st Level)
- First level degree in related subject
- Tissue Viability / Leg Ulcer Specialist or equivalent post graduate qualification
- Evidence of successful completion of a leadership course, eg. Mary Seacole, LEO
- Practice Educator and Assessor Preparation (PEAP) or equivalent qualification
- V150 Community Nurse Prescriber or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Significant Post registration community experience
- Extensive knowledge/experience in Leg Ulcer and/or wound management
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development relevant to the field of practice
- Evidence of teaching skills
Desirable
- Evidence of Personalised Care planning and complex patient management
- Experience in managing complaints
- Experience in service improvement
- Ability to take appropriate action to assess and manage risk
- Experience of empowering a positive learning culture for interdisciplinary and interagency teams
Skills
Essential
- Ability to critically understand and apply relevant legal, regulatory and governance requirements, policies, and professional and ethical frameworks
- Advanced clinical decision making skills to support patient centred care
- Extensive knowledge in wound management
- Confident at undertaking and interpreting a vascular assessment including a doppler
- Compression bandaging skills and associated underpinning knowledge
- Ability to present relevant research, quality and audit findings and proposals for care improvement to a range of audiences.
- Willingness to learn new skills
- Must have excellent prioritisation and time keeping skills
- IT Literate
- Teaching, presentation, and facilitation skills to support education.
- Ability to work collaboratively across professional and organisational boundaries.
- Autonomous decision maker in challenging situations
- Understanding of personal and professional accountability and NMC Code of Conduct
Personal
Essential
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiating skills
- Understanding of research-based practice
- Excellent role model
- Demonstrate an ability to meet trust values at all times
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others
- Flexible and reliable
- Organised and able to prioritise
- Able to demonstrate excellent time management skills
Other
Essential
- Must have means of own transport and able to drive in variable weather conditions
- Must be a non-smoker during working hours
- Willingness to travel and attend training and conferences including overnight stay
- Ability to cover leg ulcer service in the absence of other team members
- Must be willing to undertake Criminal records Bureau Disclosure to Enhanced / Standard level
- Must be legally entitled to work in this country
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).