Job Introduction
Join Our Team as a Lymphoedema Support Worker
Based at Trowbridge Community Hospital
18 Hours Per Week
Are you passionate about making a real difference in people’s lives? We’re looking for a compassionate, motivated Lymphoedema Support Worker to join our dedicated multi-professional team in a community setting.
In this rewarding role, you’ll provide high-quality care, support, and treatment to individuals living with lymphoedema and chronic venous oedema, working within clearly defined clinical guidelines and protocols. You’ll be a vital part of a supportive team that puts patient wellbeing at the heart of everything we do.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with excellent interpersonal skills and a commitment to delivering person-centred care. Whether you're looking to take the next step in your healthcare career or bring your experience to a new setting, we’d love to hear from you.
Why Join Us?
Work within a friendly and professional community-based team
Develop specialist skills with full training and support
Make a real difference to people’s quality of life
Apply now and be part of something truly meaningful.
You will be required to have a valid UK driving licence with a vehicle that can be used for business purposes and have business insurance for the vehicle used.
Main Responsibility
• To work within the Tissue Viability and Lymphoedema team.
• To perform designated treatment by following a personalised specialist care plan.
• To report to LSN any changes in patient condition and any relevant information.
• To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• To undertake specific tasks as delegated; to include clinical intervention such as lower limb bandaging, simple wound care, measuring for hosiery and garments.
• To have a good knowledge of infection control, to reduce risk of health care acquired infections.
• To give practical support and advice to patients, relatives and carers within the bounds of knowledge and job role.
• To practice the principles and philosophy of individualised patient care in accordance with policy and procedures.
• Act on own initiative to ensure rooms are appropriately stocked to support the smooth running of the department
• To communicate with individuals about routine and daily activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (e.g. hearing/language).
Please see the attache Job Description for the full list
The Ideal Candidate
• Good general education.
• NVQ Level 3 in health care – or willingness to achieve.
• Experience of working under distanced supervision.
• Experience of supporting others.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Delivering patient focused care.
• Ability to recognise own limitations.
• Typing/data inputting skills.
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
• Undertake specific nursing/therapy skills.
• Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.
• Willing to work in other areas of
• the organisation as and when required to do so.
• Driven to achieve.
• Self-motivated.
• Good time management
Package Description
As a Lymphoedema Support Worker, 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:
- £24,486 (pro rata to hours worked) with access to our group 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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