Trainee Lymphoedema practitioner

Are you fed-up and looking for a change, seeking a new challenge or looking to gain new skills and knowledge in a different care setting. If the answer is yes, then we have the job for you., We can offer:

Dedicated and robust induction

Promote and support you to be an autonomous and independent practitioner

Encourage you to be part of new and exciting developments and service improvements

Empower you to have a voice and bring new ideas and transferable skills to our teams

Support you to lead on changes to improve and develop our services

Support with funding for personal development such as masters

Support you in complex case management of patients

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group.To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family.

To provide relevant forms of care with minimal supervision and participate in the supervision and teaching and assessment of other health care professionals. To play an active part in the continuing development of the department and contribute to the maintenance of an environment conducive to the delivery of high standards of patient care, by promoting good communication and relationships between staff, patients, relatives and visitors.

We welcome internal and external candidates who have a desire to work with us.

You don't need to have Lymphoedema experience as we are committed to supporting your development. We are seeking to recruit a full time Band 5 trainee Lymphoedema practitioner (Registered Nurse or Allied Health Care Professional) working towards the role becoming a Band 6 on completion of competencies.

You will be working under the supervision the experienced and highly skilled Lymphoedema and Red Legs Specialist team and you will receive support and supervision.The successful candidate will act as an expert resource to Hospital, Community and Social care staff. The applicant will develop the ability and willingness to participate in Lymphoedema education programmes with other team members.Your main role will be providing support and Lymphoedema management to people living with this complex, distressing chronic condition.

You will be expected to maintain clinical skills and competence, you will have the ability to work unsupervised, be able to prioritise your workload, have excellent communication skills and the interest and enthusiasm to promote best practice in Lymphoedema. As a team player, you'll be able to prioritise your work to meet deadlines and have a customer focused approach.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.