Job overview
We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist-Macmillan Lymphoedema who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Macmillan Lymphoedema CNS post holder is responsible for running their own nurse led clinics in order to treat patients with cancer related lymphoedema attending MVCC. The clinics will consist of review (face to face and phone) and treatment appointments.
In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £4,870 and a maximum payment of £6,137 per annum pro rata.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
To undertake, under the guidance of the Macmillan lymphoedema CNS (band 7), treatment of patients within this specialist field who may have complex physical and psychological conditions and/or chronic presentation.
As an experienced Lymphoedema therapist the jobholder will assist in co-ordinating individualised programmes of care. The post holder will be required to ensure effective communication is always maintained, whilst providing training, supervision and clinical expertise to qualified, or other, staff.
As part of a specialist team, the jobholder will work collaboratively to promote quality evidence-based practice and contribute to the effective management of the service.
The post holder will assess patient's lymphoedema related problems, assess and measure for compression garments, advise on self management, refer to other services and contact other MVCC teams or GP as needed, plan and deliver intensive treatments for patients, discharge to community lymphoedema services or GP.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
* State registered healthcare practitioner
Desirable criteria
* Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
* Certificate of Graduation from recognized MLD course
* Certificate of updating of original MLD course (no more than 2 years between certified updates)
* Post graduate qualification in lymphoedema management
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
* Postgraduate clinical experience
* Audit and standard setting
* Service development
Desirable criteria
* Experience working within other lymphoedema and or Oncology specialist centres
Skills
Essential criteria
* Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within formal and informal environments
* Contributes to the development of services. Can work within a team to ensure service provision to specified clinical areas
* Excellent communication skills
* Ability to cope working in a stressful environment including the ability to impart information, regarding poor prognosis and rehabilitation. Able to deal with emotional or aggressive patients and carers.
Desirable criteria
* Supervisory skills.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of this area of clinical practice.
* Working knowledge of critical appraisal, audit and outcome measures
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of research.
* Presentation skills using various media.
* Competent IT Skills
* Active member of SIGS (Special Interest Group)
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
* Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
* Role model our Trust values every day
* Clear vision of role and commitment to speciality.
* Moving and handling patients and equipment is a requirement of this post