Lead Lymphoedema Nurse Specialist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Lymphoedema Nurse Specialist to work within the Specialist Lymphoedema Service based in Kendal, providing a service for patients across Morecambe Bay.

The role requires you to be flexible. You should have excellent time management skills and be able to prioritise your workload daily. The successful applicant will support the service in development and implementing new ways of working.

The role includes performing as a specialist nurse in all aspects of Lymphoedema care, and applicants must have a relevant specialist qualification. The role will include undertaking an assessment of patients with Lymphoedema considering safe and effective care in the on-going assessment, Doppler and hosiery/compression and implementing plans of care and lifestyle changes, to enhance quality of life for patients living with Lymphoedema.

Main duties of the job

To co-ordinate the practice of the nurse-led Lymphoedema Service covering treatment of referred patients.

To be responsible for the standard of the service.

• To lead a nurse led service providing specialist advice and treatment for patients and carers regarding lymphoedema treatment and management



• Provide a specialist outpatient service, including assessment, planning and delivery of specialist nursing care



• Provide specialist knowledge to further a quality service for patients with lymphoedema



• Contribute to specialist nursing advice within the service



• Act as line manager for lymphoedema practitioners.



• To participate and contribute towards related research programmes which have been formally agreed by MBPCC within the limits of time and finance



• Promote and participate in appropriate audit and quality programmes



• Participate in and promote professional development, including updating knowledge and practice in the management of lymphoedema



• To provide specialist advice and treatment for patients and carers regarding lymphoedema treatment and management.



• The post holder is required to deal with the wider healthcare community, external organisations and the public. This will include verbal, written and electronic media.
  
  Morecambe Bay Primary Care Collaborative is the largest employer of Primary Care colleagues in South Cumbria, we are a not-for-profit Community Interest Company, and work to support, guide and underpin primary medical care across Lancashire and South Cumbria.