Job summary
Join a specialist service where your expertise transforms
lives.
Our expanding Lymphoedema Service is seeking motivated clinicians to join a
dedicated team consisting of a Senior Lymphoedema Specialist Nurse, a
Lymphoedema Specialist Nurse and a Lymphoedema Clinical Support Worker.
The team provides handson, evidencebased assessment,
treatment and management for patients with complex, cancerrelated, and
palliative lymphoedema.You will deliver personalised care, support
multidisciplinary working, and help improve quality of life for patients with
advanced needs.
Alongside direct clinical care, you will contribute to
service development by offering specialist advice and delivering education to
local healthcare support workers, enabling safe and consistent care for
patients with mild to moderate lymphoedema.
This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact every day
while helping shape a respected and growing specialist service.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver highly specialist, evidencebased assessment, treatment, and ongoing management for primary and nonpalliative secondary lymphoedema.
- Work autonomously, using advanced clinical skills to develop, implement, and review personalised care plans.
- Manage your own caseload, including admission, discharge, holistic assessment, and evaluation of treatment outcomes.
- Provide key lymphoedema therapies such as Manual Lymphatic Drainage, multilayer bandaging, compression care, and intensive treatment programmes.
- Identify and manage secondary complications, including cellulitis.
- Offer expert advice and education to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals, acting as a clinical role model.
- Collaborate effectively within the multidisciplinary team and attend relevant meetings.
- Maintain up to date knowledge, follow local formularies, participate in supervision, and work within legal frameworks.
- Use advanced communication skills to explain complex or sensitive information and overcome barriers to understanding.
- Promote patient independence through self care education, equipment provision, and complication prevention.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Senior Lymphoedema Specialist Nurse Band 7, you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £47,810 to £54,710 Band 7 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 well being 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
Essential Requirements
- Registered First Level Nurse e.g. NMC Part 1.
- Current certification in Complex Decongestive Therapy e.g. Foldi, Vodder, Casley Smith, Leduc, or equivalent.
- Demonstrable experience in lymphoedema management.
- Strong IT skills and confidence using clinical systems.
- Experience delivering teaching or training to patients or colleagues.
- Willingness to undertake further specialist training in therapeutic treatments for lymphoedema management.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable Requirements
- Previous experience working in a community healthcare setting.
- Non Medical Prescribing qualification or a commitment to undertaking this training.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Senior Lymphoedema Specialist Nurse Band 7, you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £47,810 to £54,710 Band 7 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 well being 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
Essential Requirements
- Registered First Level Nurse e.g. NMC Part 1.
- Current certification in Complex Decongestive Therapy e.g. Foldi, Vodder, Casley Smith, Leduc, or equivalent.
- Demonstrable experience in lymphoedema management.
- Strong IT skills and confidence using clinical systems.
- Experience delivering teaching or training to patients or colleagues.
- Willingness to undertake further specialist training in therapeutic treatments for lymphoedema management.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable Requirements
- Previous experience working in a community healthcare setting.
- Non Medical Prescribing qualification or a commitment to undertaking this training.
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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