Job summary
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 duties of the job
- 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 evidencebased therapies such as manual lymphatic drainage, multilayer bandaging, and compression garment management.
- Work autonomously within your competency level, demonstrating advanced clinical decisionmaking.
- 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.
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 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 lifes 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 youre 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
- Registered Nurse
- Willing to work towards a Certificate in Complex Decongestive Therapy and undertake specialist lymphoedema training.
- Significant postregistration nursing experience, including experience in lymphoedema care.
- Evidence of continuous professional development and uptodate knowledge of lymphoedema and cancer care.
- Experience working in community settings.
- Strong clinical, organisational, and timemanagement skills.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation, and reportwriting abilities.
- Able to work independently, use initiative, and manage your own caseload.
- Confident working within a multidisciplinary team and supporting colleagues.
- Motivated, professionally selfaware, and committed to highquality care.
- Flexible and willing to work across other areas of HCRG when required.
Desirable
- Certification in Complex Decongestive Therapy.
- Experience in lymphoedema management and teaching others.
- Experience assessing community health needs and targeting support accordingly.
- Evidence of innovation, flexibility, and strong reportwriting skills.
- Training or experience in managing challenging situations.
- Willingness to further develop IT skills.
- Experience within a relevant specialist area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 lifes 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 youre 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
- Registered Nurse
- Willing to work towards a Certificate in Complex Decongestive Therapy and undertake specialist lymphoedema training.
- Significant postregistration nursing experience, including experience in lymphoedema care.
- Evidence of continuous professional development and uptodate knowledge of lymphoedema and cancer care.
- Experience working in community settings.
- Strong clinical, organisational, and timemanagement skills.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation, and reportwriting abilities.
- Able to work independently, use initiative, and manage your own caseload.
- Confident working within a multidisciplinary team and supporting colleagues.
- Motivated, professionally selfaware, and committed to highquality care.
- Flexible and willing to work across other areas of HCRG when required.
Desirable
- Certification in Complex Decongestive Therapy.
- Experience in lymphoedema management and teaching others.
- Experience assessing community health needs and targeting support accordingly.
- Evidence of innovation, flexibility, and strong reportwriting skills.
- Training or experience in managing challenging situations.
- Willingness to further develop IT skills.
- Experience within a relevant specialist area.
Person Specification
General Requirements
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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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