Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9-5)
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-1340
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Forest Primary Care Centre
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/05/2024
Employer heading
Band 6 Lymphoedema Nurse - Secondment Post
Band 6
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
Lymphoedema Band 6 secondment post for 6 months working in the Enfield Lymphoedema Service through Enfield Community Services (internal applicants only).
An exciting oppurtunity for a nurse to develop their skills in the management of lymphoedema.
The role of a lymphoedema practitoner is key to making a difference to those living with this long term condtion. Our service aims are to improve our patients wellbeing both physically and psychologically. Supporting patients to learn to self manage their condtion.
What our team says about working in Enfield lymphoedema serice:
"lymphoedema is a poorly understood condtion, my past experinces in community nursing and cancer nursing led me to lymphoedema, I am passionate about treating patients with a long term condtion, and helping them to manage their condtions"
"I was previously working in the community and leg ulcer clinic. There are many patients with the need for lower limb care and lymphoedema has given me this oppurtunity to expand my knoweledge and become an expert"
"Working monday to friday, allows me the oppurtunity spend more time with my family, giving me a good working life balance"
Main duties of the job
This a clinical role, the post holder will assist in the daily running of the lymphoedema service, working in clinic and community settings. They will have the opportunity to develop their skills in the management of lymphoedema, chronic oedema and lipoedema.
The post holder would be expected to demonstrate competent and compassionate clinical judgement in deciding on patient focused long-term goals, with the aim of improving quality of life for the patient with lymphoedema or chronic oedema. To carry a clinical caseload, working to a high professional standard, using clinical and theoretical knowledge and skills to work as an autonomous practitioner, maintaining associated record keeping via RIO. To work as a team player in a small team and learn the specialized skills, to further their knowledge in lymphoedema management.
The post offers a fantastic opportunity to develop clinical skills and develop one to one relationship with patients supporting them to manage their long-term conditions.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Take a tour of our hospital here
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main duties and clinical reponsibilties:
1.1: To aid the lymphoedema team in the provision of community lymphoedema services across Enfield.
1.2: To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own professional practice in line with the standards of the trust, Division and Nursing and Midwifery Council/ professional regulator.
1.3: To work closely with all members of the lymphoedema Service to develop their skills and become able to manage uncomplicated lymphoedema patients.
1.4: To work as a key worker for patients, to assess and manage clinical risk within own patient caseload, ensuring patients have consented to therapy and treatment.
1.5: To utilize advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based knowledge to assess patients holistically and then to implement lymphoedema management plan as appropriate
1.6: To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, coordination and palpatory sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients
1.7: To provide spontaneous specialist lymphoedema advice, face to face and/or via the telephone
1.8: To provide educative information and instruction to the patient, relatives, carers, and healthcare professionals to promote understanding of the aims of therapy/ treatment intervention or non-intervention.
1.9: To create with patients’ self-management care plans and encourage compliance with self-care
2.0: To be available and provide specialist advice to health care professionals from within the Trust.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- NMC 1st level registrationtration
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- An interest in the management of lymphoedema, chronic oedema and lipoedema.
- Willing to work towards a qualification in lymphoedema management
- To have a willingness to undertake non-medical prescribing qualification
Desirable criteria
- Undertaken Lymphoedema Training
- Degree – nursing related
- Quality Improvement Course.
- Independent Nurse Prescribing Course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 6 months post registration experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- An interest in the management of lymphoedema, chronic oedema and lipoedema.
- Efficient management of resourcesbility to work independently and as a member of a teamderstanding of, or experience in managing long-term conditions
- Evidence of personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in community setting and provided supportive care to patients with Lymphoedema or Chronic Oedema
- Experience Palliative care and/or Oncology experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to priorities and organize own workload and that of others
- Ability to work as a member of a team and autonomously
- Understanding of Clinical Supervision
- Understanding of personal and professional accountability
- Motivate self and others
- Ability to cope with the practical and physical elements of lymphoedema care including bandaging and use of compression garments
Desirable criteria
- Computer literacy skills: Word processing and data analysis skills and ability to use remote working technology and various common database systems
- Knowledge of the audit and Quality Improvement process and experience of applying to clinical practice
- Ability to search effectively for data, critically analyses and interpret and disseminate various forms of evidence.
Peronael qualities
Essential criteria
- • Compassion
- • Empathy
- • Respectfulness
- • Assertiveness
- • Flexibility
- • Reliability
- • Adaptable
- • Openness
- • Honesty
- • Team working
- • Interpersonal skills and written and verbal skills
- • Importance of a positive “can do” attitude
- • Positive attitude to change
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work in a variety of settings, including patients’ homes, wards, Care Homes, out-patient clinics, and rehabilitation areas.
- Car driver and have access to a vehicle for business use
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Teresa Hill
- Job title
- Consultant Nurse - Lymphoedema
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 5870
- Additional information
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