Children's Community Continence Nurse Specialist

1 week ago


Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available within our busy and expanding Children's Bladder and Bowel Service working in the community. If you are a dynamic, motivated and forward thinking Children's Nurse and want to be part of a gold standard service, then this may be just the job for you. There will be lots of opportunities for learning new skills and qualifications, for NMP course.

The Children's Bladder and Bowel Service is a small team consisting of Nurse Specialists, Health Care Assistant support and Administration support. The team are enthusiastic, knowledgeable and extremely friendly and supportive group of people, who recognise individuality and encourage progress and change.

Our Children's Continence Team are based at Broadoaks CDC in Leyland, where you will be based and expected to travel across Preston, Chorley and South Ribble patch.

An Enhanced DBS with lists for children is required for this post.

Interview date to be confirmed.

Main duties of the job

To provide expert Children's Continence Service to Children and Young People with bladder and bowel problems at Tier/ Level 2.

To provide appropriate child and family focused nursing support to Children Young People and their families that responds to individual and local community needs. To take into account the need to prevent hospital admission. To facilitate early discharge and provide ongoing continence care for children and young people with continence needs working across the whole of the child/ young person's environment- home, school, community and hospital- to facilitate participation, inclusion and normality.

An ability to work as an autonomous practitioner is paramount to assess children holistically, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care.

You will contribute to continuous improvement of the service through teaching and support of other health care professionals and acting as a source of nursing expertise in this area.

About us

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Post holder to work flexibly across the Children's Bladder and Bowel service, delivering high quality, evidence-based bladder and bowel care for children and young people.

Perform and interpret complex skills in; urinalysis, bladder and bowel charting, ultrasound bladder scanning.

Draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources in their practice.

Develop and use knowledge and skills in order that professional development, bladder and bowel competencies can be maintained and keep professional portfolio up to date. To accept responsibility for own professional practice as a reflective, accountable clinical practitioner.

Escalate concerns in relation to management plans/ treatment/ safeguarding/ social issues to ensure the child's safety is paramount and in accordance with legislation.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

Appropriate NMC Registration - Children's trained Mentorship qualification

Desirable

Specialist Practitioner Degree in Children's Nursing Non-medical prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Experience of working with children and young people with continence issues Previous experience of undertaking continence assessments Ability to Implement changes within nursing practice Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures Experience of mentorship

Desirable

Bladder scanning skills

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