Join our small, friendly, and highly skilled Lymphoedema Service at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust as our new Band 7 Lymphoedema Clinician and Team Leader.
We’re looking for an experienced and motivated clinician to lead our community based service, delivering high quality care to people living with lymphoedema across the local area. You’ll run a mix of community clinics and domiciliary visits, providing specialist assessment, treatment, and ongoing management.
As Team Leader, you’ll also take on line management responsibilities, supporting the development and wellbeing of our small, supportive team.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading the lymphoedema team — providing clinical leadership, supervision, and service development input.
- Running community clinics — delivering specialist assessment and treatment, clinics run at The Beacon Centre, Haslemere Hospital, Woking, Farnham and Staines.
- Carrying out home visits — ensuring accessible care for patients with mobility or health challenges.
- Driving service quality — helping shape the future of our lymphoedema provision.
The Band 7 Lymphoedema Clinical Specialist takes a lead role on the lymphoedema service and collaborates with the multidisciplinary team on the provision treatment for those with cancer and non-cancer related lymphoedema.
They will provide a high quality, evidence based lymphoedema service, addressing the symptoms of lymphoedema for those with cancer and non- cancer related lymphoedema.
They will line manage the junior team members.
They will develop links with other services in the trust and the local community.
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Provide a high standard lymphoedema service undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. Take a lead role as clinical specialist in the holistic, advanced assessment of patients with lymphoedema with diverse presentations. These patients may have a wide variety of complex physical, emotional and psychological needs as a result of their cancer diagnosis or underlying health conditions.
Use highly specialist clinical reasoning skills to provide a diagnosis and to develop and deliver individualised treatment programmes. The post holder works closely with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to make appropriate referrals where necessary to provide streamlined, coordinated care.
They will provide advice, support and supervision for Band 6 Lymphoedema therapists/ nurses. This may be in the form of formal training, reflective practice and clinical reasoning.
Undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further quality improvement in the service.
Propose practice and policy changes which impact on the wider service and implement changes in own area
The service caseload includes people registered with Guildford and Waverley GP, along with those from neighbouring trusts where there is a service level agreement or non-contracted activity on a cost per case agreement, this may include private care.
