Registered Nurse

Job summary
Welcome to FCMS!
We are looking for a Registered Nurse (Wound Care) to join our Wound Care Service. The service is spread across clinics in Fleetwood, Freckleton and St Annes.
Pay: £15.88 - £19.33 per hour depending on experience
Hours: 22.5 hours per week permanent post
Accountable to: Lead Wound Care Nurse
Reports to: Clinical Manager for Lancashire Place Based Care

The post holder will undertake wound assessments and treatment for patients with simple wounds. Patients who will be referred to this service will be the following types:

• Post operative including suture and staple removal
• Post trauma skin tears, self-harm
• Acute wounds that require follow up
• Cavity Wounds
• Burns/scalds that require follow up
• Patient education including nutrition in relation to wound healing and scar management

There is an expectation to refer to the wider community team if required, support Senior clinicians and HCAs and attend meetings when required. The post holder will help promote the service and implement change as requested from the ICB.

Exclusion Criteria:
Those patients who are:
Not registered with a GP in Fylde and Wyre CCG (i.e., reside outside area) House bound Undergoing or requiring Vac Therapy patients Undergoing or requiring Larvae Therapy Doppler patients

About us
The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.
Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.

Come and be a part of our amazing team!
We offer NHS Pension
Cycle to Work Scheme
Career Development Opportunities
Attendance Bonus
Staff Benefit Scheme
Free Tea & Coffee
Eye Care Contributions

Job responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Endeavour to maintain good standards of communication both in written and oral form.
• Assess a wound and make appropriate dressing selection for the desired plan of care within local formulary and national guidelines.
• Prescribe safely within the prescribing competency framework and undertake prescribing audits relevant to service (relevant to Non-Medical Prescribers)
• To assess patients autonomously whilst remaining within scope of practice
• Work within formally agreed arrangements where general practices provide specialised or extended clinical services (LES: Local Enhanced Services)
• Show awareness of evidence-based practice in wound care
• Improve access to wound care services
• Provide short-term care of acute wounds Provide continuity of care and a consistent approach
• Provide a comprehensive wound care management service Standardise adherence to the ICBs / Lancashire and South Cumbria wound care formulary working towards achieving an 80% compliance rate
• Improve skills and knowledge of the workforce leading to a higher standard of care
• Enhance patient outcomes and reduce secondary care activity
• Participate in promoting and implementing services to new sites when required by the ICB for the expansion of the service
• Make entries on patient records to record clinical interventions
• Make entries in the clinical notes using the service areas computer programme ADASTRA
• Complete associated documents to accompany specimens using Cyberlab where available and label specimens
• Work well within a small…