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Would you like to be part of a team dedicated to improving the care and treatment outcomes across a wide range of patients whilst continuing to develop specialist skills in wound care?

We currently have vacancies within our Wound Healing Service. We are a specialist Wound Service focusing on Hard to Heal wounds, working with each patient on realistic goals depending on their wound healing potential.

We deliver advanced wound healing treatments within patients own home or residential/nursing home and within a clinic setting for ambulatory patients. We also work alongside Practice Nurses, Community Nurses and nursing homes offering lots of variety to the role with imparting wound care knowledge across the community. 

We welcome qualified nurses who have a passion for wound healing and would like to build on their wound care knowledge and skills. We are also able to support newly qualified RGNs with preceptorship for those with a passion and interest for wound healing.  This role is a rotational post across the 2 areas of the service, wound healing clinics and community wound healing team offering variety to the successful candidate. 

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Main duties of the job

The role involves working within a variety of settings including clinic, community or residential home settings depending on the patient’s needs, delivering advanced wound healing interventions.
To work as an engaged member of the Wound Healing Service to provide effective evidence based Wound healing treatments and advice to patients who attend the Wound Healing Service. To support the service with the supervision of learners and visitors to the clinics. To take charge of the working area during the span of duty in the absence of the wound care sister with support from other senior staff, registered nurses, and healthcare assistants. To develop in conjunction with the patient an individualised care plan that identifies if the patient has potential for wound healing, requires further MDT involvement or advice on how to live well with a wound.

To undertake the nursing care of patients attending the Wound Healing Service under the supervision of the wound care sister.

As a named nurse for a caseload under the supervision of a sister to holistically assess, plan, implement and evaluate the management of patients within Service.

To maintain and implement evidence-based practice .

Assess plan, implement, evaluate and discharge patients within agreed protocols for treatment.

Working for our organisation

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) has taken the decision to no longer continue to provide Adult Physical Community Services, as there are more suitable providers within the wider NHS local system. 

Following a review of suitable providers to take forward the contract, the Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) has confirmed its intention to award the contract for the provision of Adult Physical Community Services to University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW).  This change is anticipated to take effect from 1^st July 2024.

Your application to work in Adult Physical Community Services will not be adversely impacted by the change in provider.  Should you commence employment prior to the transfer, your contract of employment (that is your terms and conditions of service as at the point of transfer) will automatically transfer to the new organisation, under the "Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006" (TUPE) as amended by the "Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014".

Should you commence employment after the transfer, your contract of employment will be issued by the new provider of Adult Physical Community Services.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.