Clinical Lead for Lymphoedema

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Clinical Lead for Lymphoedema to manage clinical delivery and improve patient outcomes. The ideal candidate will have extensive nursing experience, a strong leadership background, and a commitment to exceptional patient care. Responsibilities include team management, clinical oversight, and collaboration with healthcare partners. This role offers opportunities for professional development and a chance to make a significant impact on patient lives in London.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' nursing experience as a Lymphoedema Specialist.
• Community nursing experience.
• Experience of implementing Quality Improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of risk management.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of clinical delivery in the local health populations.
• Lead the team to deliver excellent clinical care.
• Contribute to the development of the lymphoedema services.
• Engage with service partners to improve the patient pathway.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Customer Service

Supervision and Mentoring

Complex Case Management

Conflict Management

Communication Skills

Education

First Level Registered Nurse or Physiotherapist

University degree demonstrating specialist knowledge or Masters

Lymphoedema Course

Teaching and assessing course

Tools

Compression Therapy

Job description

Specialist nursing and therapyroles are critical to the successful delivery of care within Accelerate. Theorganisation has a strong and determined focus on the core mission which is toimpact on and make a difference to the lives of those communities we serve,individuals living with wounds and/or lymphoedema.

The expectation is that the ClinicalLead for Lymphoedema will lever their passion for their speciality andtheir expert skills in the care and management of complex patients for thedelivery of excellent outcomes for their patients and commissioners. It is alsoanticipated that the post holder will bring better understanding to theprinciples of patient flow, clinical systems and their organisation and staffeffectiveness and efficiency. Being an inspirational leader for a team iscritical to the success of a service. You will bring creative thinking andinnovation to complex issues, utilising expert skills, risk management andinsight in order to effectively manage a variety of situations borne out ofcomplex psychosocial, medical or organisational need. Knowledge about thehealth of your population and inherent inequalities should assist your contributionto the development of your service and the mission of Accelerate. The abilityto grasp the principles of clinical leadership, understand partnership workingacross a health economy and demonstrate a solution driven mentality areessentials of this role.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Lead is consideredthe expert and will take ownership for the operational delivery of the clinicalservice in the Centre of Excellence and Innovation; with an ability to take apopulation health view rather than a pure individual focus. The post holderwill lead their team to deliver excellent clinical care alongside themanagement of risk and successful deployment of the teams resources. This roleis designed to enable the post holder to take full end to end responsibilityfor the delivery of the outcomes and indicators for a defined contractualbusiness area. Clinical and operational delivery remains core to this role; thepost holder is accountable to the Director of Clinical services for themanagement of the key performance targets.

Working collaboratively with theDirector of Clinical Services for Lymphoedema to maintain high quality woundcare with a focus on extending reach to our patient cohort outside of ourcurrent geographical boundaries.

About us

Accelerate is an award-winning healthcare social enterprisethat works within the NHS to transform the lives of patients with chronicwounds and lymphoedema. Were passionate about delivering exceptional patientcare. We listen, we consult, we analyse and we care deeply about the people weare responsible for.

We work at all stages of need from earlyidentification to the most complex of case and in partnership with others. Wework in London and further afield and its in the realisation of thisexpansion that your experience could be invaluable.

We have made remarkable strides in our short history and weare deeply committed to upholding our values and uncompromising standards. Weunderstand our responsibilities and we take enormous pride in the positivedifferences we are making to our patients lives. We have shown that we canmake those lives better when all else has failed.

Accelerate is an exciting place to work and develop. We provide exceptional care to our patients which makes a great environment for staff development.

Job advert closed 19.08.25

Shortlisting 20.08.25

In-person interviews 03.09.25

Job responsibilities

• The Clinical Lead for the Lymphoedema Team will manage allaspects of clinical delivery in the local health populations. Providing thedelivery and the ongoing development for the lymphoedema services and thepopulation it serves.Specifically, this requires focus on:
• The continualimprovement of the patient pathway
• Delivery of apopulation based lymphoedema service; whilst this may primarily focus on lowerlimb lymphoedema/chronic oedema, this expertise and prompt management toinclude all aetiologies of lymphoedema and lipoedema
• Identificationof and proactive clinical management for all Lymphoedema and specifically thosethat present with complexity and risk
• Proactivesurveillance of outcomes in relation to timelines to care, prioritisationactivity and clinical performance within contract parameters.
• Interface withprogramme manager to ensure efficient and effective use of the local dressingoptimisation scheme and compression garment spend within the services
• Development andmentoring of the Lymphoedema team
• Optimising service resources in conjunction with the Clinical Lead for Wound Care in relation to lower limb management

Additional responsibilities focus on:-

• Analysis offootfall of patients within the lymphoedema team in order to stratify andidentify effective use of resources in line with the aligned contract
• Deliveranalysis of clinical outcomes in relation to lymphoedema
• Proactive engagement with service partners to continually improve the patient pathway
• Support the lymphoedema-related education programme collaboratively with the Clinical Lead for Wound Care

Person Specification

Personal Attributes & Aptitudes

• Professional behaviour with good customer service skills
• Evidence of being a reflective practitioner that delivers both insight and personal growth
• Safe practitioner with attention to detail
• Organised approach to work, ability to prioritise, good time management
• Strong communication skills and fluent in English, written and verbal
• Flexibility in approach to work and understands team working
• Willingness to learn and implement new ideas, be creative and have the desire to progress with professional development
• Commitment to facilitating learning in others

Circumstances

• Holds valid UK work permit
• Holds current drivers licence and is able and willing to drive
• Access to private transport

Experience

• Minimum 3 years' nursing experience as a Lymphoedema Specialist.
• Community nursing experience
• Complex leg ulcer related caseload responsibility
• Expert in compression therapy and theory
• Experience of working autonomously and in service development
• Experience of implementing Quality Improvement initiatives
• Knowledge of risk management
• Experience of teaching in variety of settings
• Line Management responsibility
• Delivery of clinical audit
• Publication
• Designed training packages
• Multidisciplinary working

Skills

• Clinical Leadership
• Able to work with minimal supervision in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for patients
• Experience of supervising and mentoring other health professionals
• Experience of managing conflict within teams and patient delivery
• Experience of implementing root cause analysis

Qualifications

• First Level Registered Nurse or Physiotherapist
• Current NMC Registration or equivalent
• University degree demonstrating specialist knowledge and/or Masters
• Lymphoedema Course
• Teaching and assessing course
• Prescribing course

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.

Director of Clinical Services & Lymphoedema