Lymphoedema Nurse Specialist

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site River Place Health Centre Town London Salary £47,951 - £56,863 per annum inclusive of HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 12/10/2026 23:59

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Are you a highly motivated and experienced Specialist Nurse with a passion for delivering exceptional patient care? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our dedicated Lymphoedema & Leg ulcer service, where you can make a meaningful impact on patients' lives while advancing your own career.

We are looking for a nurse with proven expertise in Lymphoedema care who is ready to:

Inspire and collaborate with colleagues, and

Achieve outstanding results for patients.

We also welcome applications from Band 5 nurses who are eager to develop their knowledge and skills in Lymphoedema care. If you have a passion for learning and are committed to growing within a supportive and dynamic environment, we would love to hear from you.

We are a highly motivated team, and we are very proud of the service we provide. We are committed to offering support and opportunities to develop your expertise and extend your knowledge, enabling you to advance as a specialist practitioner. You will be part of a progressive and dynamic multidisciplinary team that cares, supports, and challenges to bring about improvement.

If you’re ready to bring your skills, passion, and commitment to our team, this role offers you the perfect platform to thrive.

Main duties of the job

To support and assist in the management of the community Lymphoedema Service for Islington and Haringey.

To use expert knowledge to diagnosis lymphoedema and chronic oedema, identify underlying cause, implement treatment, follow-up and review treatments, promote self-management regime for patients.

To work as an autonomous practitioner and effectively co-ordinate and deliver a highly specialised service within the field of Lymphoedema.

To support in raising awareness of lymphoedema for all clinical staff.

To support in delivery of training for chronic oedema prevention and management for all clinical staff across the community division.

To facilitate audits and research within the field of lymphoedema

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

CLINICAL PRACTICE

To use knowledge and expertise in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for patients with lymphoedema

Contribute to the development of nurse/allied health professional led services in order to meet service demand within the specialty of lymphoedema

Collaborates and networks with all members of the multi-professional and multi disciplinary team on the provision of patient care.

Participates in all discussions that are required for high quality, timely and accurate patient assessment and care planning for adults with lymphoedema.

To assess the needs of the patient and work in partnership with individuals to agree the most appropriate plan of care for them

Ensure the symptom control of palliative lymphoedema in patients with advanced disease is managed and fully understood by families and health care professionals involved in care, providing specialist information, education, practical and emotional support as required.

To communicate information about diagnosis of lymphoedema and outcomes of treatment.

With the support of the Team Lead to act as an autonomous practitioner managing own caseload, delivering care in line with National Guidance, receiving and making direct referrals.

To provide skilled assessment of patients referred to the lymphoedema service determining the clinical diagnosis and treatment pathway.

To implement appropriate care to obtain the best results in the improvement of the condition, adjusting the clinical management to suit the patient’s needs/tolerance and managing complex and emotive clinical scenarios.

To educate patients in the long-term management of their lymphoedema, monitoring as required and empowering the patient to maintain compliance with treatment programmes and care of their swollen limb/area, in order that they can achieve their optimum quality of life.

To provide skilled practice in a range of assessment and treatments to manage lymphoedema, including skin care, exercise, measurement for and prescription of compression hosiery, self lymphatic drainage and manual lymphatic drainage.

Professional Responsibilities

To adhere to the Professional Conduct and be wholly accountable for his/her practice.

To actively seek to raise the profile of Nurse-led /AHP led services within Royal Surrey Foundations Trust community services, by publication, research and teaching.

To behave in a professional manner and act as a role model for other staff at all times

Contribute to effective ethical decision making relevant to lymphoedema practice.

Establish and maintain contact with professional bodies at local, national and international level

MANAGERIAL

To be responsible for the self- development of skills and competencies through participation in learning and development activities, and to maintain up to date technical and professional knowledge relevant to the post.

To support the team leader of the Lymphoedema Service to enhance the department performance and build organisational capability.

Work as an autonomous practitioner and support the implementing and disseminating of change through policy development based on the lymphoedema evidence.

To support the division wide Skin Integrity Forum (SIG).

Organise own workload and manage own clinical caseload.

Actively promote Clinical Governance.

Assist in providing monthly report on pressure ulcer incidence in the community division.

To support and deputise for the division-wide monthly Learning from Datix meeting where route cause analysis findings are presented by relevant community teams.

Provide monthly reports of case-mix workload clinical/non clinical activity.

Deputise when necessary for the Lymphoedema lead and attend Divisional Clinical Governance meetings and feedback to team

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or AHP
• Evidence of nursing/ AHP related qualification to degree level.
• Specialist knowledge of Lymphoedema / Chronic oedema or wound care Management attained through training and experience.
• Teaching/assessing qualification to Postgraduate Diploma Level (Level 6) or equivalent
• Nurse/ NMP Prescribing

WORK RELATED KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 3 years clinical experience
• Clinical experience of patients with long term conditions
• Knowledge of chronic oedema treatment and compression therapies
• Experience of working autonomously and within a team
• Knowledge of Governance and Quality Improvement in health care
• Knowledgeable of Electronic Records systems
• Demonstrates enthusiasm towards teaching and sharing knowledge Sound knowledge and understanding of current nursing and education issues
• Experience of clinical audit
• Involved in service development and quality issues
• Line Management
• Cancer/palliative care knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of chronic oedema treatment and compression therapies

CAPABILITIES: ways of working

• Safe practitioner with attention to detail
• Ability to manage own work and that of others; has an organised approach to work and ability to prioritise
• Able to work with minimal supervision in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for patients
• Cognisant with IT networks: competent with electronic systems
• Ability to resolve complex problems
• Excellent team worker, with well-developed interpersonal
• Strong communication skills and fluent in English written and verbal
• Behaves professionally articulating good customer service skills
• Experience at networking across partnerships in primary and secondary care
• Evidence of bringing clinical leadership
• Experience of supervising and mentoring other health professionals

PERSONAL APTITUDES: attitude to working

• Demonstrate evidence of own Continuing Professional Development.
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour.
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Confident, self-motivated
• Flexible and resourceful.
• Ability to motivate others and lead developments in the clinical area.
• Strength of character and confidence to manage opposition and overcome obstacles in a positive and non-threatening manner

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Other important information –

• You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

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We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the 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.

Name Noma Mafu Job title Speciality Service Manager Long Term Conditions Email address nomalisa.mafu@nhs.net Telephone number 07435339773

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