Job overview

This post blends an opportunity to deliver direct patient care and develop one to one relationships with our patients who are affected by lymphoedema, lipoedema and chronic oedema.

The post holder would mostly work with a qualified nurse to support with measuring limbs and for specialist garments. For the right candidate there would be scope to undertake further training as a lymphoedema specialist and / or look at doing the nurse apprenticeship training in the future.

Main duties of the job

To assist the Lymphoedema CNS with practical support in clinic such as help measuring for compression, assisting patients move, doppler assessments, bandaging, and record keeping using SystmOne

Assisting with home visits

At times doing visits alone (when appropriate and once you are felt to be competent) to review patients or demonstrate compression application etc

For the right candidate there is the opportunity to undertake specialist training to be able to do more of the role without direct supervision, so the desire to learn is essential

The service delivers clinics and home visits in both East & North Herts and West and this can require significant time driving on some days.

Working for our organisation

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities 

Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds 

We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible. Apply now

You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.

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