Are you passionate about improving patient outcomes in wound care and skin integrity? Do you thrive on leading teams, driving innovation, and delivering high standards of care? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to make a significant impact by delivering expert leadership, clinical practice, education, training and research/audit in the prevention, care and management of patients with pressure ulcers and wounds.
The post holder will be responsible for leading pressure ulcer/wound care management ensuring safe, effective, evidence-based practice in accordance with national/international guidance e.g. NICE; NPUAP and EPUAP and local guidance within the Trust wound care/pressure ulcer policies and procedures.
The post holder will be an expert resource for the Trust ensuring seamless care transitioning across inpatient and community services within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven and will be expected to display high levels of competence, professional judgement, integrity and personal accountability. The post holder will improve and maintain standards of patient care through development, implementation and continuous evaluation of quality improvement initiatives, protocols and policies. Leading on design and delivery of training and education in both mandatory and bespoke programmes throughout the Trust will be a core responsibility.
The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, and is not directly supervised. They will manage the team to include duty rotas; delegation; PDRs; sickness and absence and team development opportunities. Developing business plans to embed cost effectiveness whilst ensuring effective service delivery will be a key activity informing service improvement.
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
Cycle to Work
Travel Scheme
Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
Onsite Nursery
Buying and Selling Annual Leave
Car Leasing
Employee Assistance Programme
Employee Health and Wellbeing
Extensive Reward Scheme
Counselling Service
Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

OUR VALUES:

We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
Committed to Quality of Care
Compassion
Working together for patients
Improving Lives
Everyone Counts
Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
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