Job Introduction
Make a meaningful difference to adults living with lymphoedema and lipoedema.
In this role, you will provide specialist care for patients with primary and secondary lymphoedema and lipoedema. This includes carrying out assessments, delivering treatment, and managing ongoing care. You will also play an important role in educating, supporting, and advising other clinical staff, including GPs, practice nurses, and community nurses.
We will also consider this as a Band 5 development opportunity for candidates who are committed to gaining the specialist skills required for the role.
Main Responsibilities
- Develop expert knowledge in lymphoedema care through supported education, training, and supervision.
- Provide holistic assessment, treatment, and ongoing management for adults with primary and secondary lymphoedema, including complex cases.
- Manage your own caseload, including admissions, treatment planning, review, and discharge.
- Deliver evidence‑based therapies such as manual lymphatic drainage, multi‑layer bandaging, and compression garment management.
- Work autonomously within your competency level, demonstrating advanced clinical decision‑making.
- Offer specialist advice and support to patients, carers, GPs, community nurses, and wider multidisciplinary teams.
- Identify and respond to complications such as cellulitis and ensure appropriate referral to other professionals when needed.
- Promote patient independence and wellbeing through education, prevention, and personalised care planning.
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation and adhere to clinical standards, guidelines, and formulary requirements.
- Act as a role model within the service, contributing to professional education, multidisciplinary collaboration, and ongoing service improvement.
- Engage in supervision, reflective practice, and continued professional development to maintain advanced clinical skills.
Building and Strengthening Partnerships
- Work effectively as part of the multidisciplinary team, contributing clinical expertise and supporting colleagues.
- Attend MDT meetings and communicate confidently within the team.
- Supervise, support, and train junior staff and students.
Adapting in a Changing Community
- Stay up to date with new developments, products, and best practice, and incorporate them into patient care where appropriate.
- Provide education on lymphoedema management to patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals.
Essential
- Registered Nurse (NMC Part 1).
- Willing to work towards a Certificate in Complex Decongestive Therapy and undertake specialist lymphoedema training.
- Significant post‑registration nursing experience, including experience in lymphoedema care.
- Evidence of continuous professional development and up‑to‑date knowledge of lymphoedema and cancer care.
- Experience working in community settings.
- Strong clinical, organisational, and time‑management skills.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation, and report‑writing abilities.
- Able to work independently, use initiative, and manage your own caseload.
- Confident working within a multidisciplinary team and supporting colleagues.
- Motivated, professionally self‑aware, and committed to high‑quality care.
- Flexible and willing to work across other areas of HCRG when required.
Desirable
- Certification in Complex Decongestive Therapy (e.g., Földi, Vodder, Casley‑Smith, Leduc or equivalent).
- Experience in lymphoedema management and teaching others.
- Experience assessing community health needs and targeting support accordingly.
- Evidence of innovation, flexibility, and strong report‑writing skills.
- Training or experience in managing challenging situations.
- Willingness to further develop IT skills.
- Experience within a relevant specialist area.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Lymphoedema & Lipoedema Community Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will be part of our valued team in our Lymphoedema Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £38,682 - £46,580 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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