Jennifer Pirie
Summary
Dedicated healthcare professional with expertise in caseload management and multidisciplinary team collaboration; advanced complex wound management and adept at developing clinical guidelines and policies. Strong clinical assessment skills, aiming to enhance patient care through evidence-based practices and continuing professional development. In my spare time i am also enjoying learning the Welsh language.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Tissue Viability Nurse Specalist
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS FT
2022.05 - Current
- Provide specialist advice and care on complex wound management across different clinical settings, including Community Nursing Teams, GP Practices, Nursing Homes, Leg Ulcer Clinics and Mental Health Inpatient units.
- Trained and competent in conservative sharp debridement.
- Assess, plan, and evaluate complex care needs, ensuring high standards of patient safety and dignity.
- Support nursing teams with education and training needs in wound management, leg ulcer management and pressure ulcer prevention and management.
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to deliver person-centred care.
- Collaborate with senior colleagues to develop clinical pathways, guidelines, policy and training courses.
- Posture management with a particular interest in the prevention and management contractures and increasing knowledge in paratonia.
- Engage with patients with cognitive impairment, adapting communication strategies to meet individual needs.
- Contribute to safeguarding and risk management processes for vulnerable patients.
- Support junior nurses' work offering guidance where necessary.
- Collaborated with local acute hospital trust to implement a complex wound virtual ward to improve continuity or care across hospital trusts.
- Collaborated with Podiatry Team to develop virtual MDT to improve the continuity of care in patients requiring both Podiatry and Tissue Viability management.
Enhanced Wound Care Nurse
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS FT
2020.10 - 2022.05
- Worked within the Community Nursing Team as the Enhanced Wound Care Nurse.
- Role included Community Sister responsibility's consisting of triaging referrals, line management and shift coordination.
- Worked with the Tissue viability Team to case manage patients with complex wounds.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams for improved patient outcomes, including GPs, Allied health professionals, social care, care agencies, palliative care teams, podiatry team, vascular team, Urgent community response.
- Carried out CHC assessments involving patients and their families.
- Liaised effectively with patients' families and carers.
- Student nurse supervisor.
- Re established a Leg Ulcer Clinic that operated 3 days a week to support patients on the community nursing caseload.
- Clinical skills included administering injections, venepuncture, leg ulcer management, VAC therapy, wound care, catheterisation including Suprapubic catheters, bowel care including manual evacuation, Stoma care, Pressure area management and prevention, Palliative care, End of Life care, syringe driver management and diabetes management.
Community Staff Nurse
Southern health NHS Foundation Trust.
2018.10 - 2020.10
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams for improved patient outcomes, including GPs, Allied health professionals, social care, care agencies, palliative care teams, podiatry team, vascular team, Urgent community response.
- Carried out CHC assessments involving patients and their families.
- Liaised effectively with patients' families and carers to develop patient centred care plans.
- Student nurse supervisor.
- Re established a Leg Ulcer Clinic that operated 3 days a week to support patients on the community nursing caseload.
- Clinical skills included administering injections, venepuncture, leg ulcer management, VAC therapy, wound care, catheterisation including Suprapubic catheters, bowel care including manual evacuation, Stoma care, Pressure area management and prevention, Palliative care, End of Life care, syringe driver management and diabetes management.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Adult Nursing. -
The Open University
2014.09 - 2018.07
Level 7, Leg Ulcer Management (Msc module) -
The University of Huddersfield
2022.09 - 2023.07
History Taking and Physical Assessment level 6 -
University of Southampton
2025.01 - 2025.03
Skills
- Caseload management
- MDT collaboration
- Complex wound management
- Clinical guidelines and policy development
- Clinical assessment skills
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
History Taking and Physical Assessment level 6 -
University of Southampton
2025.01 - 2025.03
Level 7, Leg Ulcer Management (Msc module) -
The University of Huddersfield
2022.09 - 2023.07
Tissue Viability Nurse Specalist
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS FT
2022.05 - Current
Enhanced Wound Care Nurse
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS FT
2020.10 - 2022.05
Community Staff Nurse
Southern health NHS Foundation Trust.
2018.10 - 2020.10
Bachelor of Science - Adult Nursing. -
The Open University
2014.09 - 2018.07