Vacancies

Lymphoedema Specialist Nurse

Main Responsibility

• The post holder will develop through supported education and supervision specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience, and will develop specialised programmes of care.

• Exercise freedom to act with professional autonomy, acting as an expert practitioner demonstrating 

advanced clinical competence, decision making and knowledge base.

• To accept appropriate referrals for primary and non-palliative patients with lymphoedema needs from 

members of the Primary Health Care Team, hospital staff, hospice and other professionals, as 

appropriate.

• Following appropriate education will be able to provide an holistic assessment of the patient, with 

specific focus on the assessment, treatment and management of lymphoedema.

• To act in an advisory role, using specialist knowledge regarding diagnosis and management of 

Lymphoedema. This will include advice and support to patients, carers and health care professionals.

• To manage own caseload, including admission and discharge to and from the caseload.

• To formulate and review treatment care plans that promote health and that take account of the 

patient's physical, spiritual, psychological and educational needs.

• To advise on skin care, treatment and hosiery liaising closely with other MDT HCP members.

• To refer patients on to other professionals, as appropriate.

Please see the attache Job Description for the full list

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered First Level Nurse on Part 1 of the register of the NMC.

• Agreement to work towards certificate of Complex Decongestive Therapy.

• Experience of teaching

• Significant experience in post registration nursing with experience in Lymphoedema.

• Willing to undertake specific training in therapeutic treatments for Lymphoedema management.

• Evidence of on-going professional development.

• Sound knowledge of current issues in Lymphoedema and cancer care.

• Management of budgets such as compression garments.

• Experience working in the community

• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.

• Good organisational and time management skills.

• Good interpersonal skills.

• Excellent presentation and report writing skills.

• Excellent clinical skills.

• Excellent communicator.

• Professional commitment and self-awareness.

• Motivate self and others.

• Work without direct supervision and within time scale.

• Demonstrate ability to use initiative.

• Ability to carry own caseload.

• Willing to work in other areas of HCRG as and when required to do so.

Package Description

As a Lymphoedema Specialist Nurser, you’ll be part of our valued Team.

You will feel valued as a Lymphoedema Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £37,339 (pro rata to hours worked) with AfC terms and conditions with NHS pension.
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• 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

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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