Clinical Lead Lymphoedema

Specialist nursing and therapy roles are critical to the successful delivery of care within Accelerate.

The expectation is that the Clinical Lead for Lymphoedema will lever their passion for their speciality andtheir expert skills in the care and management of complex patients for the delivery of excellent outcomes for their patients and commissioners. It is also anticipated that the post holder will bring better understanding to the principles of patient flow, clinical systems and their organisation and staff effectiveness and efficiency.

Being an inspirational leader for a team is critical to the success of a service. You will bring creative thinking and innovation to complex issues, utilising expert skills, risk management and insight in order to effectively manage a variety of situations borne out ofcomplex psychosocial, medical or organisational need. Knowledge about thehealth of your population and inherent inequalities should assist your contribution to the development of your service and the mission of Accelerate.

The abilityto grasp the principles of clinical leadership, understand partnership working across a health economy and demonstrate a solution driven mentality are essentials of this role.

The Clinical Lead is considered the expert and will take ownership for the operational delivery of the clinical service in the Centre of Excellence and Innovation; with an ability to take apopulation health view rather than a pure individual focus. The post holder will lead their team to deliver excellent clinical care alongside the management of risk and successful deployment of the teams resources. This roleis designed to enable the post holder to take full end to end responsibility for the delivery of the outcomes and indicators for a defined contractual business area.

Clinical and operational delivery remains core to this role; thepost holder is accountable to the Director of Clinical services for the management of the key performance targets.

Working collaboratively with the Director of Clinical Services for Lymphoedema to maintain high quality woundcare with a focus on extending reach to our patient cohort outside of our current geographical boundaries.

Accelerate is an award-winning healthcare social enterprise that works within the NHS to transform the lives of patients with chronic wounds and lymphoedema. Were passionate about delivering exceptional patient care. We listen, we consult, we analyse and we care deeply about the people weare responsible for.

We work at all stages of need from early identification to the most complex of case and in partnership with others. Wework in London and further afield and its in the realisation of this expansion that your experience could be invaluable.

We have made remarkable strides in our short history and weare deeply committed to upholding our values and uncompromising standards. We understand our responsibilities and we take enormous pride in the positive differences we are making to our patients lives. We have shown that we canmake those lives better when all else has failed.

Accelerate is an exciting place to work and develop. We provide exceptional care to our patients which makes a great environment for staff development.

• The Clinical Lead for the Lymphoedema Team will manage all aspects of clinical delivery in the local health populations. Providing the delivery and the ongoing development for the lymphoedema services and the population it serves.
  
  Specifically, this requires focus on:
• The continual improvement of the patient pathway
• Delivery of apopulation based lymphoedema service; whilst this may primarily focus on lowerlimb lymphoedema/chronic oedema, this expertise and prompt management toinclude all aetiologies of lymphoedema and lipoedema
• Identification of and proactive clinical management for all Lymphoedema and specifically thosethat present with complexity and risk
• Proactive surveillance of outcomes in relation to timelines to care, prioritisation activity and clinical performance within contract parameters.
• Interface withprogramme manager to ensure efficient and effective use of the local dressing optimisation scheme and compression garment spend within the services
• Development and mentoring of the Lymphoedema team
• Optimising service resources in conjunction with the Clinical Lead for Wound Care in relation to lower limb management

Additional responsibilities focus on:

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• Analysis of footfall of patients within the lymphoedema team in order to stratify and identify effective use of resources in line with the aligned contract
• Deliver analysis of clinical outcomes in relation to lymphoedema
• Proactive engagement with service partners to continually improve the patient pathway
• Support the lymphoedema-related education programme collaboratively with the Clinical Lead for Wound Care

• Professional behaviour with good customer service skills
• Evidence of being a reflective practitioner that delivers both…