Lymphoedema Clinical Specialist Nurse or AHP

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in London seeks a Lymphoedema Clinical Specialist Nurse or AHP. The role involves managing and providing specialist advice in a dedicated community service. Ideal candidates will be registered nurses or AHPs with experience in lymphoedema care, and the position is full-time with attractive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• 1st Level Registered Nurse or Registered AHP.
• Educated to at least degree level with specialist training.
• Experience in treating Lymphoedema, chronic oedema, and lipoedema.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the Lymphoedema service and provide specialist advice.
• Work collaboratively with health professionals in various settings.
• Maintain clinical records and oversee a clinical caseload.

Skills

Evidence-based practice

Autonomy

Compassion

Empathy

Flexible

Education

1st Level Registered Nurse/registered AHP

Educated to degree level

Qualification in Lymphoedema Management

Job description

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Lymphoedema Clinical Specialist Nurse or AHP

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Community Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9-5) Job ref 391-NMUH-2128-A-A

Site Forest Primary Care Centre Town London Salary £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 03/07/2025 23:59

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered nurse or AHP to join our small, experienced dedicated community nurse led Lymphoedema service.

The service provides specialist advice to patients on the management of lymphoedema, chronic oedema and lipoedema across the borough of Enfield. We provide Nurse led clinics daily in a variety of settings and visit the housebound patients at home or in residential and nursing homes.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will take a leading role in the management, development, and efficient running of the Lymphoedema service. The post holder will be providing specialist lymphoedema advice, support, education and training to patients, carers and health care staff & professionals based on knowledge of relevant evidence, current research, good practice guidance.

The post holder will need to demonstrate understanding of the causes of and management of chronic oedema, lipoedema, primary and secondary Lymphoedema. To carry a clinical caseload, working to a high professional standard, using advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge and skills to work as an autonomous practitioner, maintaining associated record keeping .

Please see Job Description for full details

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively with a wide range of health and social care professionals within the community, acute and out-patient setting including:

• Primary and community health care teams

• Specialist cancer and palliative care colleagues

• Oncologists, multidisciplinary clinicians, and coordinators working in the Cancer Network

• Lymphoedema services in NCL and Pan London

• Voluntary services

• General Practitioners

Please see uploaded Job Description for full details

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• 1st Level Registered Nurse/registered AHP
• Educated to degree level
• Relevant specialist post basic programme
• Further post-graduate accredited development
• Qualification in Lymphoedema Management or willing to undertake
• Prescribing Qualification (NMP V300) But willing undertake a Have a certificate to demonstrate he/she has successfully completed a non-medical prescribing course at post graduate level.
• Master’s in nursing, midwifery, research or ethics / lymphoedema management
• Advanced Communication skills training

Experience

• Relevant clinical experience, post graduate experience of working as a nurse/AHP with patients who have, Lymphoedema, chronic oedema and lipoedema
• Teaching experience
• Evidence of recent professional development
• Knowledge of NMC code of conduct
• Previous experience of formal & informal teaching of patients & staff.
• Experience of applying evidence-based practice to clinical practice
• Experience in acting as a clinical mentor
• Previous experience of development of standards, guidelines, and policies
• Previous experience in audit and evaluation of practice / services
• Community nursing experience
• Experience in cancer or palliative care setting or
• Quality Improvement Projects

Skills and Abilities

• Up to date knowledge and expertise in the specialty
• Evidence of developing & leading nurse/therapist led clinics / services
• Evidence of ability to work autonomously
• Have written and verbal skills
• Knowledge of key professional issues and NMC/AHP guidelines relating to professional practice
• Efficient management of resources
• Skills in critical analysis and application of research to practice
• Compassion
• Empathy
• Flexibility
• Reliability
• Adaptable
• Importance of a positive attitude
• Positive to change

Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

Other Requirements

• Any physical capabilities needed; must be able to adhere to moving and handling of clinical loads at per Trust Policy
• Ability to work in a variety of settings, including patients’ homes, wards, Care Homes, out-patient clinics, and rehabilitation areas.
• Car driver for business use - must provide own vehicle

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.