Complex Wound Care Nurse

Job Title – Complex Wound Care Nurse
Locations – Northamptonshire, Bedford, Milton Keynes
Hours / shifts – Zero Hour
Hourly Pay – £24.52 per hour

Our purpose is to provide high quality, community-based specialist home care, and support. We aim to work together to achieve the goals of each of our varying clients, and to make lives better for our clients.

Wound Care nurses wanted to join our existing team and assist us to grow in Northampton, Bedford and Milton Keynes, working closely with colleagues and customers across the community setting. Every day will bring a blend of hands on clinical support, relationship building and problem solving.

• Provide treatment for patients with highly complex wounds, ensuring consistently high standards of evidence based, patient centred care.
• Support the prevention and management of pressure ulcers and other skin integrity concerns.
• A passion for continuous learning and for representing solutions that genuinely improve patient outcomes.

• Registered Nurse with NMC with active PIN
• Minimum 2 years clinical nursing experience including community or hospital setting
• Extensive experience in wound care management
• Experience of safeguarding adults and children
• Effective communication skills – verbal and written
• Ability to work on own initiative as well a part of a team – self-motivated
• Effective people management skills
• Ability to negotiate, influence, elevate and seek advice

• Work with our own clients, no agency work
• Pension scheme
• Blue light card
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
• Continued professional development to support you & your career
• Paid time off to volunteer and give back to the charities and causes that matter to you
• Holiday pay
• Refer a friend scheme
• Employee Assistance line – available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
• Support from your local branch team and out of hours support

In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake enhanced DBS/PVG, right to work, reference and employment history checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC.

Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines.

As a private provider of home care in the UK, Prestige Nursing & Care is not affiliated to the NHS, as such we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of any employment visa at this time.

All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair, and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting equal opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity, or any other perceived difference.

We reserve the right to close this position early.