Job summary
- Main area
- Nurse
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 24 hours per week
- Job ref
- 229-IC-7488027
- Employer
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Vaughan Building, Belmont. Hereford
- Town
- Hereford
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Tissue Viability Lead Nurse
Band 8a
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Job overview
Are you an experienced and forward-thinking nurse ready to shape the future of tissue viability care? Wye Valley NHS Trust is excited to offer a new opportunity for a Band 8A Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist to lead and develop our evolving service. This pivotal role will not only provide expert clinical leadership in tissue viability but also take on strategic responsibility for the Lymphoedema and Lower Limb services, ensuring a cohesive and patient-centred approach across pathways. As the service lead, you will champion innovation, drive quality improvement, and support staff development—guided by our core values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. If you are passionate about delivering outstanding care and ready to make a lasting impact, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As the Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist and new service lead, you will provide expert clinical leadership in the prevention and management of complex wounds, pressure ulcers, and skin integrity issues across acute and community settings. You will be responsible for developing and implementing evidence-based protocols, delivering specialist education, and leading quality improvement initiatives. In addition, you will line manage the Lymphoedema and Lower Limb services, ensuring integrated, patient-centred care and supporting staff development across these pathways.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Job description and person specification provides further details on responsibilities. Key responsibilities include staff supervision and development, clinical audit, policy implementation, and acting as a specialist resource for education and training across the Trust. There is an expectation that this role will be 50% clinical and 50% managerial.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Clinical 1st degree or equivalent
- Post Graduate qualification in Tissue Viability
- Masters level study in Tissue Viability
- Teaching & Assessing Course
Desirable criteria
- Non medical Prescribing Qualification
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Advanced knowledge on Tissue Viability
- Experience in Teaching and developing educational programmes
- Good understanding of clinical risk, clinical governance and national benchmarks.
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Leadership and Management Experience
- Experience in developing policies/clinical guidelines
Experience
Essential criteria
- Wide experience of clinical and nursing roles
- Significant experience of tissue viability in a senior role
- Experience of education and training of staff
- Experience of leadership and management of staff and budgets
- Audit and research – products and clinical practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amanda Spooner
- Job title
- General Manager- Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01432 355444
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