Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 20/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Tissue Viability Nurse to join the Wound Care Service. The role involves providing expert assessment for patients with complex wounds in various settings and via remote triage. You will support Integrated Network Teams with wound care education and contribute to the prevention of pressure injuries. The service operates Monday to Friday, 0800-1700, and this role is for 30 hours a week.
Key responsibilities
- Work as part of the wound care service providing an efficient and effective service to patients and colleagues.
- Provide specialist tissue viability assessment for patients with complex wounds and develop appropriate treatment plans.
- Contribute to development and review of evidenced based tissue viability guidelines, protocols and pathways.
- Contribute to the pressure ulcer prevention strategy across Sirona and provide accurate verification of pressure ulcers.
- Provide tissue viability education in a variety of ways to clinicians within the Integrated Network Teams (INTs).
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (with NMC)
- Demonstrate on-going training and professional development in tissue viability
- Competence in tissue viability skills including lower limb and doppler assessment
- Experience working in a community nursing setting
- Skilled in negative pressure wound therapy
- Experience of remote clinical triage
- Experience using digital technology e.g. Minuteful for Wound app for documentation
- Competence in tissue viability skills including wound and pressure ulcer assessment
- Previous experience in Tissue Viability
Desirable criteria
- Tissue Viability qualifications or a willingness to undertake
- Nurse prescribing qualification or a willingness to undertake
- Assessor/mentor course or equivalent or a willingness to undertake
- Experience of audit
- Experience or ability to deliver presentations and education to a variety of audiences
- Experience supporting students in practice
- Experience developing and contributing to pathways and guidelines
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
The Wound Care Service has an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Tissue Viability Nurse to join their committed and passionate team. This is a varied role providing expert assessment for patients with complex wounds in a variety of settings and via remote triage.
The service also supports the Integrated Network Teams (INT) in becoming confident in wound care and lower limb management by education, caseload reviews and a supportive in-reach model. The overarching aim is to enable patients to receive best practice care in a timely manner and improve outcomes for them. The role also plays a key part in the prevention of pressure injuries across the organisation.
The service currently runs Monday to Friday 0800-1700. This role is for 30 hour a week.
Main duties of the job
- Work as part of the wound care service providing an efficient and effective service to patients and colleagues within the Sirona care and health community.
- Provide specialist tissue viability assessment for patients with complex wounds in a variety of settings and via a rota of remote triage and develop appropriate treatment plans.
- Contribute to development and review of evidenced based tissue viability guidelines, protocols and pathways and contribute to embedding these in practice.
- Contribute to the pressure ulcer prevention strategy across Sirona in working to embed Sirona protocols
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