This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part time, 22.5 hours per week.
Gloucestershire Lymphoedema Service is seeking to recruit a highly motivated Registered Nurse, HCPC Occupational Therapist or HCPC Physiotherapist to join our small, well established Lymphoedema Team. The vacancy is for a Lymphoedema Practitioner Band 6 or Development Lymphoedema Practitioner Band5/6, depending on level of experience.
Training, support and mentorship will be provided to help you to develop skills, knowledge and confidence to deliver high quality care at a specialist level, and the successful candidate will be expected to under take the Graduate diploma in Oedema Management.
The successful post holder will be part of developing the service providing specialist assessment, support and treatment for service users and will work collaboratively with the team and other multi professional teams to ensure practice is efficient, effective and evidence based.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
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The post holder will:
* Provision of care for patients with primary and secondary Lymphoedema and Lipoedema within all care institutions, including the patients' home, across the county.
* Promote and behave consistently with the Trust values and promote these on a daily basis.
* Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.
* Provide advice, education and support to patients with Lymphoedema or Lipoedema to aid self-management.
* Liaise with a variety of teams including healthcare, social care, voluntary and the independent sector, to ensure access to appropriate services.
* Provide education to patients and healthcare professionals within multidisciplinary teams.
* Always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism and act as a role model to colleagues.
Participate in research studies and audits which are appropriate for the role