Leg Ulcer Clinic Nurse

Main area Tissue Viability Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 08.00-16.00 no weekends or bank holidays) Job ref 828-PROVIDE3990

Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Tissue Viability Braintree Community Hospital Town Braintree Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/04/2026 23:59

Job Overview

We are looking for a Leg Ulcer Clinic Nurse. Provide has lower limb clinics in Maldon, Braintree and Chelmsford. The successful candidate will be expected to work across the clinics assessing and reviewing patients with lower limb wounds often with complex health needs.

The aim is to assess patient within 2 weeks as per NWCS lower limb recommendations.

Assist in managing the caseload.

Liaise with the tissue viability team.

Liaise with other health care professionals where further input is required to support patients.

Main duties of the job

• To work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner working to pro-actively monitor and anticipate changing needs of patients with lower limb wounds.
• To provide advanced clinical care using high level assessment to make a diagnosis, initiate medical/nursing treatments, refer appropriately and co-ordinate the patients journey across all parts of the health, social care and voluntary sector systems whether in clinic or home setting.
• Improve clinical outcomes for patients by enabling them to function independently by increasing their choice to remain in their own home, community and reduce the need for, or prevent inappropriate hospital admission.
• To assist in providing a clinic leg ulcer service for patients in the Mid Essex locality. This is to include clinical care, education and training for patients and staff.
• To develop, implement and evaluate programs of care, setting of standards of care, including nurse prescribing.
• Maintain a high standard of patient focused care reflecting an inter-disciplinary approach to self-management.

To manage a defined caseload, including liaison with other agencies and where, appropriate the supervision and teaching of staff and/or students.

Establish and promote joint working with other services across professional and organisational boundaries.

Develop good communication links with patients and carers and the tissue viability service.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for a full list of the main responsibilities of the role. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.

Person specification

Essential criteria

Essential criteria

• Full driving license

NMC registered

Educated at degree level

Desirable criteria

• Non medical prescriber or willing to complete
• Evidence of continued professional development
  
  

Knowldge and Skills

Essential criteria

• 3 years post regsitration
• Training in wound and leg ulce rmanagement
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience in working in a community setting
  
  

Further Information

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
• If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net
• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
  
  

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

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Work Trials

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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.