Lymphoedema Team Leader
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
The Derby Lymphovascular Medicine Service is seeking a passionate and enthusiastic Lymphoedema Team Leader for their Kings Mill Hospital Clinic. This multidisciplinary role involves providing day-to-day leadership and management to the team, offering expert opinion, and managing clinical members. The successful applicant will also undertake their own clinical caseload, assessing patients, planning and delivering treatment, and evaluating care plans. They will work with the senior leadership team to develop and deliver initiatives within the clinics.
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a lymphoedema service
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leadership/staff management
- Registered HCP - Nurse, physio, OT or podiatrist
- Understanding
- Knowledge and understanding of lymphoedema management
- Experience of working in a lymphoedema service
- Experience of leadership/staff management
- Registered HCP - Nurse, physio, OT or podiatrist
- Understanding
- Knowledge and understanding of lymphoedema management
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Lymphoedema Team Leader
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
The Derby Lymphovascular Medicine Service is seeking to recruit a passionate and enthusiastic new team leader at our Kings Mill Hospital Clinic.
The service provides clinics in Derby, Long Eaton Health Centre (Nottingham) and Kings Mill Hospital (Mansfield). The successful applicant will be based at our Kings Mill Hospital site, however cross site cover may be required.
This is a multidisciplinary service and the new team leader can be a Registered Nurse, Podiatrist, Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist. Our team currently consists of a Medical Team, Band 8 Advanced Nurse Practitioner with a Band 7 Team Leader, Band 6 Clinical Specialist Lymphoedema Therapists, Clinical Support Workers, and Administrators working in each of the clinics.
The clinics operate Monday to Friday. The service offers outpatient appointments to adults and children with lymphoedema of varying causes, including primary lymphoedema and secondary lymphoedema. The service also sees patients with vascular and lymphatic malformations, segmental overgrowth and lipoedema.
Previous experience in treating lymphoedema is essential. A good understanding of compression garments, indications of use and the ability to apply compression bandaging is also advantageous.
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