Clinical Nurse Specialist - Tissue Viability

                    

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Job Summary

Salary: Competitive (Depending on Experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: 33 GP (SW1X 7HY)

Contract: Permanent, full time

  

What are we looking for?

Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Clinical Nurse Specialist – Tissue Viability to join our Advanced Practice team with a competitive salary range on offer, dependent on experience. The role is Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm onsite.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is a highly visible role model to all the nurses within the team and provides clinical expertise, addresses patients’ health concerns and works to promote their health and wellbeing.  Using their skills and expertise within their speciality, the CNS provides physical and emotional support to their patients, coordinates their care services, and informs and advises them on clinical and practical issues associated with their condition.

The scope of this lead role is broad, working closely with Consultants in the development of the service, embedding and maintaining appropriate standards of care, pre-assessment, in-patient and follow-up care with patients post discharge. This position is also responsible for developing and implementing ongoing competencies and training using evidence-based methodologies that embrace person-centred Care, the nursing professional practice model, and shared decision making.

What makes us different?

Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.   

What will your duties include?

• Puts quality at the heart of practice by delivering evidence based individualised and personalised care through holistic needs assessment, care planning and evaluation of care and all care interventions.

• Acts as an autonomous practitioner for a clinical caseload, throughout the patient journey working to coordinate care and provide easy access for ongoing support for patients and caregivers.

• Leads the development, management and promotion of the service, ensuring the delivery of high quality, person-centred care.

• Actively participates in multi-disciplinary team meetings, senior management team meetings acting as patient advocate and representing nursing and service views.

• Leads on the development and delivery of education, training and competency for caregivers.

What we need from you?

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing required.

• Post graduate qualification within specialty required.

• Nursing registration (First Level) through the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) required.

• Minimum two years working as a Tissue Viability Nurse or Plastics Clinical Nurse Specialist with experience in managing complex wounds within an Acute Hospital setting essential.

• Excellent presentation and training skills required, with track record of delivering clinical training courses.

What can we offer you?

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest all profits back into our organisation. This allows us to provide meaningful, tailored support and development opportunities for our caregivers - alongside a range of benefits, including:

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

• Double-matched salary exchange pension – contribute 5% and we’ll contribute 10%

• Private Medical & Dental Insurance

• Life Assurance

• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes

• Workplace Nursery Scheme

• Wellbeing Hub with mental health, coaching and EAP support

• Earned Wage Access - get early access to part of your pay when needed

• Access to discounts on food, retail, and more

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

  

With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

If you would like to know more, please email [email protected].

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Applicant shortlisting and interviews may take place whilst the advert is live, so it may close sooner than expected - please submit your application as soon as possible. Due to the volume of applications, we are not always able to provide individual feedback.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy  at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.