Specialist Lymphoedema Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a specialist in lymphoedema management to provide clinical expertise and support within the primary and secondary care teams. The role involves developing care plans, training healthcare staff, and ensuring high-quality clinical services aligned with best practices. Ideal candidates will have a commitment to patient care and clinical governance. Flexible working requests will be considered.

Qualifications

• Clinical expertise in lymphoedema management.
• Ability to work autonomously and in teams.
• Strong understanding of clinical governance and policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical expertise and develop care plans.
• Train healthcare professionals in lymphoedema management.
• Ensure adherence to clinical practice guidelines.

Job description

Overview

The post holder provides clinical expertise in the specialist field of lymphoedema and is able to work autonomously to achieve person-centred care. They work with key members of primary and secondary care to provide advice, support, and care plans to patients within the identified specialist field. The post holder provides training, education, and specialist advice to qualified and non-qualified health care professionals in all areas of the specialised field of practice. They have an awareness of and implement clinical practice using the direction provided by National Service Frameworks; NICE, Clinical Governance and DoH guidelines to ensure high quality, evidence-based best practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical expertise in lymphoedema and work with primary and secondary care teams to develop advice, support, and care plans for patients.


• Provide training, education, and specialist advice to qualified and non-qualified health care professionals in the specialist field.


• Adhere to clinical practice guidelines and governance requirements to ensure high quality, evidence-based care.


• Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high-quality care to a defined specialist practitioner caseload.


• Undertake appropriate external courses and gain qualifications required to develop specialist knowledge in lymphoedema management.


• Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.


• Undertake holistic assessments of need for patients and families, which may be highly complex, using evidence-based practice.


• Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.


• Provide advice to patients, clients, and carers on health promotion, lifestyle advice and health care.


• Ensure the team provides a high-quality clinical service through caseload management and clinical supervision.


• With the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service for planned and unplanned care needs.


• Develop partnerships and joint working within other agencies as appropriate.


• Maintain registration in line with professional bodies and clinically lead, direct, mentor, and support the team.


• Support the team leader in caseload management across the local health economy and in the development of the team’s objectives.


• Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients and act as a role model to team members and students to ensure effective care.


• Contribute to policy and service development to reflect local needs; participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.


• Provide information to the team leader on staff and patient activity to enable effective team management.


• Support practice development, improvement, and service modernisation initiatives; monitor sickness, absence, capability, and other issues within the team and report as soon as possible.


• Provide day-to-day supervision and support for the team, assist with induction, and support personal development plans for team members and students.
  


• Communicate with the multi-disciplinary team to deliver the best outcomes for patients/clients, including organising case conferences for highly complex cases.


• Participate in clinical audits, research as required, and continue to develop knowledge and competence in line with professional and service requirements.


• Mentor and assess pre-registration students and facilitate student placements within the team.


• Contribute to patient satisfaction reporting and maintain up-to-date knowledge to support professional development.


• This post may require providing cover for or undertaking duties of absent colleagues as necessary.

About Mersey Care

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across the region and commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are one of only three trusts in the UK offering high secure mental health facilities.

Working at Mersey Care

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to “perfect care” – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to improve quality and safely reduce cost.

Other information

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. This advert closes on Sunday 28 Sep 2025.