JOB SUMMARY

As part of the person centered care model, this role will develops/coordinates agency wide programs for prevention and management of skin breakdown. ii. Provides expert consultation and/or hands-on care for individual patients with acute or

chronic  wounds. iii. Establishes/coordinates multi-disciplinary, comprehensive management plans. v. Coordinates care for populations of patients, identifying trends, and developing standardized prevention and treatment protocols and

refining protocols based on outcomes.. Develops and implements educational programs for patients, staff and other health care providers.. Coordinates quality improvement initiatives to optimize skin and wound outcomes.

vii. Advocates for the patient with skin and wound care needs and for the professional

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Manages regional wound care program metrics ensuring consistent delivery of quality care and communications; collaborates and explores opportunities for cost effectiveness for wound treatments in relationship to patient needs

• Seeks consultation with other regional WOCN staff to identify and plan interventions designed to solve complex problems involving client care.

• Develops and interdisciplinary approach to client care with Wound program/Agency staff.

The Wound Program Specialist will act as consultant to help coordinate all client care  services required by the patient to achieve outcomes.

Informs the physician/wound clinics of changes in client needs, wounds that require

change to the plan of care for wound care treatments and disease management

• Follows trends in specialty area of wounds for home care industry; makes recommendations of treatment options for incorporation into the program.

• Participates in reviewing regional wound program performance metrics to ensure program is achieving desired clinical and operational performance measures.

• Participates in training, coaching of staff and onboarding to the Wound program

• Participates and facilitates professional development needs and competency for wound program.

In addition, the position involves other duties such as:

1. Will actively participate in the performance improvement process known as H3W.
2. Participates in clinical education area to provide programs aimed to improve clinical competencies of direct service staff.
3. Researches new information related to wound specialty and communicates to team.
4. Performs other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS AND SPECIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements

Preferred Requirements

Education:

1.     Bachelor’s Degree in nursing

Education

Wound/Ostomy specialty certification

Bachelor’s Degree in nursing required

Experience

1. Minimum of two years nursing experience in clinical specialty area.

Experience

1. Minimum two years in homecare

Licensure, Certification, Registration

Obtain Wound/Ostomy certification within 6 months of hire

Licensure, Certification, Registration

RN

Wound/ostomy Certification

Language Skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Language Skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Knowledge, Skills and Ability Requirements:

• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels within the organization and share knowledge, ideas and information.
• Demonstrated success in management, planning and leadership ability for meeting patient outcomes.
• Able to understand problem situations, solve problems and independently assess a wide variety of tasks in order to effectively take action to identify solutions to benefit the client/agency
• Knowledge of relevant industry standards for wound care treatments
• Ability to balance financial, quality, people and customer expectation appropriate to business situation.
• Intermediate to advanced MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project.