Lymphoedema Specialist Practitioner | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 06 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | Welling, SE2 0AY |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7255550/277-7255550-CPH |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Lymphoedema Service within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. To deliver specialist Lymphoedema services, including initial assessments, treatments and follow-ups in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust locations working as part of a small specialised team.
• The Post Holder will work within a small team delivering Lymphoedema treatment/management taking into account Local, Regional and National Policy direction in line with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
• To provide a fully comprehensive service, including initial assessment, intensive treatment packages and follow-ups
• To deliver an efficient and effective service for patients according to best and evidence-based practice and utilising appropriate software
• To raise awareness of the condition and the service
• Adhere to excellent standards of care within the Lymphoedema Service
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• To provide the highest standard of evidence-based care for people affected by chronic oedema; both primary and secondary Lymphoedema
• Must have some experience and knowledge of Lymphoedema management.
• To undertake assessment, treatment, and management of own caseload of service users
• To demonstrate the required skills including assessment of the physical, psychological, psychosocial, and environmental needs of the service user and liaising appropriately with the Lead Lymphoedema Practitioner where appropriate
• To demonstrate an enhanced level of knowledge expertise in the planning and implementation of management programmes including intensive treatment programmes and self-management techniques
• To maintain comprehensive and accurate patient records in relation to the legal implications and the organisational requirements
• To evaluate and monitor a service user’s response to treatment and adapt management programmes accordingly.
• To monitor clinical effectiveness against best practice and research
• To promote the health of service users and assist in the prevention of secondary complications for people with Lymphoedema, through enabling and encouraging independence, provision of support, facilitation of advice and information, provision of equipment, education, and training.
• To provide prompt assessment and management of Lymphoedema at the end of life
This advert closes on Monday 23 Jun 2025
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