Band 6 Lymphoedema Nurse - Secondment Post
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £40,701.00 to £48,054.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £40701.00 - £48054.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2024 |
| Location: | Enfield, N9 7HD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9393-24-0325 |
Summary
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.