Lymphoedema Specialist Clinical Nurse

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic nurse with Lymphoedema experience to clinically lead a small and friendly team in Liverpool. The service offers expert advice, support and education across a range of community domiciliary and clinic based visits.

The primary function of the role is to provide clinical inclusive leadership, management and communication for the Lymphoedema Service within the Integrate Community Nursing service line. The expectation is to ensure the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated, and responsive high quality

specialist care to patients/clients with a multidisciplinary approach. The Specialist Clinical Nurse is underpinned by the four key pillars of specialist nursing: clinical competencies, leadership, improving quality, developing practice, and developing self and others. The post holder will be responsible for supporting clinical decisions in a specialised field providing clinical leadership and management to the identified team. Working in partnership with other health professionals and partners in care to deliver specialist

knowledge and expertise across services and across the wider economy is essential. The post holder will ensure that a consistent approach to the delivery of high-quality effective delivery of care and ensure that it is underpinned by standardised processes and protocols. As a clinical nurse specialist, the post holder will be expected to contribute to the overall success of operational services delivery in their area which meets the trusts objectives and targets whilst also supporting innovation, education and research.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kirsty Kitts Job title: Team Leader Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07768728982