Community Tissue Viability Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and passionate registered nurse to join the Southampton Tissue Viability Team. The successful candidate will provide specialist tissue viability services across various community settings, delivering assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and care planning for patients with wounds and ulcers. The position involves supporting healthcare professionals through teaching and specialist advice, managing a caseload, and promoting health and wellbeing through evidence-based care. The nurse will also contribute to service improvement and maintain high standards of patient care.
Key responsibilities
- Provide specialist Tissue Viability service across clinic, home and community settings, delivering assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and care planning.
- Promote health and preventative care through risk assessment, education, and evidence-based interventions.
- Manage a defined Tissue Viability and Leg Ulcer caseload, ensuring timely admission, discharge, and onward referral.
- Assess and manage complex wounds, including wound healing evaluation, pressure ulcer classification, and lower limb assessment.
- Communicate sensitively with patients and carers regarding treatment plans and changing conditions.
- Demonstrate clinical autonomy, promote best practice, and support service improvement within the team.
Essential criteria
- BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community Tissue Viability Staff Nurse
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate registered nurse to join the Southampton Tissue Viability Team.
Our mission is to provide an open and honest, holistic, collaborative, specialist tissue viability service that facilitates the highest quality, evidence-based care, which keeps our patients at the heart of everything we do.
The team is based at the Adelaide Health Centre and will see patients in the Community, Community Hospitals, GP Practice, Nursing Homes and in Clinic.
Our role is to support health care professionals in clinical practice by providing teaching, information and specialist advice on tissue viability.
We provide:
Complex wound assessment and advice
Leg ulcer service, including lower limb assessment
Telephone advice
Training and education
Supervision and competency review
Link nurse meeting and training
The successful candidate will support patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing, while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment.
Care is based on comprehensive assessments and is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive, evidence-based and promotes independence.
The role will develop and maint
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