Lymphoedema Specialist Clinical Lead

Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic Band 7 Clinical Lead to join our specialist Lymphoedema Service in Norfolk. This rewarding role sits within the Community Skin Integrity Team, where you will co-lead and shape high-quality lymphoedema care alongside the Lymphoedema Nurse Team Lead and your Tissue Viability Nurse/Dermatology Nurse colleagues. You will play a key role in driving excellence, innovation, and evidence-based practice, making a real difference to patient outcomes across the community.

Main duties of the job

• Demonstrate the ability to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy in to make decisions and provide advice for patients and professionals concerning the management of lymphoedema.
• To ensure that the views of the service users and their carers are effectively sought, and passed through appropriate channels for appropriate action, including taking action regarding complaints of the service user or their carer in accordance with the Trust policy.
• To plan and provide an individualised plan of care for the patient with lymphoedema incorporating patient focused goals and outcomes based on sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and knowledge. This should include the ability to provide appropriate levels of intervention for the patient in keeping with the four cornerstones of lymphoedema care.
• Provide highly specialist lymphoedema advice and support to generalist nurses, care agencies and health professionals including doctors and consultants, to ensure excellent individualised patient care. This will include leading on training and education on specific and expert clinical treatments to support continuity of care for patients.
• To support the Skin Integrity Services Lead with strategic and service development, vision and direction for the lymphoedemaservices within the Integrated Care System where required and where appropriate.

Please see job description for full details.

About us
Please note, the selection processes at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills.

Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description document for full details. This will include information about the role and candidate expectations and the person specification.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered adult nurse or allied HCP
• Qualification in lymphoedema management
• Evidence of significant experience in lymphoedema
• Evidence of further academic or practical study at a higher level eg level 7 or relevant experience
• non-medical prescribing qualification or willing to undertake

Desirable

• Teaching qualification
• Previous management course/qualification
• Palliative Care Course

Experience
Essential

• Significant experience of leadership & management
• Evidence of experience in teaching and mentoring within your role
• Experience of cross boundary working in partnership and collaboration with health, social and voluntary sectors.
• An understanding of, or experience in cancer management and its impact on lymphoedema
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and the implications to their own service area
• Proven leadership and management skills in some aspect of service development. Experience of using advanced communication skills

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential

• Knowledge and experience of budget management
• Ability to appraise complex situations and facts and take appropriate action.
• Ability to use own initiative and take responsibility.
• Computer literate
• Good organisational and time management skills

Communication
Essential

• Ability to deal with highly sensitive and complex information where agreement and co - operation is required with patients, carers, colleagues and other professionals.
• Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding

Other
Essential

• Eligible to live and work in the UK
• Must have access to a vehicle & be able to commute to meet the demands of the role and remain flexible - to meet the demands of the service
• Willingness to uphold the Trust's values
• Some roles require additional level of checks as part of the employment process i.e. roles which come into contact with children, vulnerable adults or their families.
• Able to communicate effectively in written and verbal English Language

Personal and People Development
Essential

• Motivated - able to motivate self and others to deliver a quality service

Personal Attributes/Behaviours (linked to the Trust's Behaviour Framework)
Essential

• Ability to cope with the physical effort required to perform lymphoedema treatments
• Highly Motivated
• Flexible
• Good interpersonal skills
• Confidence to work alone whilst supporting the rest of the team
• Able to identify with the Trust's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults.

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.