Children's Continence Specialist
1 week ago
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Children's Continence Specialist to join our team at Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust. As a key member of our Continence Service, you will be responsible for providing expert clinical advice and guidance to children, young people, and their families, as well as working closely with healthcare professionals to promote continence and improve the quality of life for our patients.
Main Duties and Responsibilities- Provide individualized evidence-based clinical assessments, reviews, and advice to optimize continence for children and young people with/without Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND).
- Undertake holistic assessments in relation to continence, including requesting information such as bladder and bowel diaries from families and carers.
- Support toileting workshops, devise and supply individualized toileting advice and care plans.
- Provide clinical advice and support to parents, carers, and education staff to help them understand childhood continence conditions and support their child/young person with advised treatments.
- Be responsible for ensuring timely continence assessments and completion of reports/information requests to support Child in Need/Child Protection meetings and Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP) procedures.
- Facilitate/participate in the program of education to support the promotion of early identification, treatment, and management of childhood continence issues.
- Provide clinical advice and support to parents, carers, and education staff to help them understand childhood continence conditions.
- Plan and organize own work, including triaging referrals, clinics, administration, and meetings, prioritizing work accordingly.
- Ensure that referrals to other health and social care partners are completed in a timely manner, in conjunction with colleagues in the Continence Service and, where appropriate, the multiprofessional team.
- Assess the need for containment products, following local and national guidance, and have an awareness of the budgetary costs associated with this.
- Contribute to transition planning with adult services.
- Ability to communicate with the Child/Young person of all ages and their families/carers, utilizing a range of communication techniques and styles to promote continence.
- Work in partnership with Child/Young person and carers to enable them to make informed choices about care and treatment to promote their physical and mental health well-being.
- Complete record keeping, using an electronic patient record system, in line with Trust policy and guidelines, supporting effective record keeping.
- Record incidents in line with Trust guidance and support with learning from incidents within the service and across the wider Children and Specialist Nursing Teams.
- Ability to communicate with professionals both internal and external to the Trust to understand and consider how they might support child/young person's agreed continence care plan for a positive outcome.
- Network and maintain effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary/multi-agency professionals across primary and secondary care to ensure appropriate/individualized positive continence outcomes are achieved.
- Develop and deliver training to Children's Services staff in education, health, social care, and other identified partners as required.
- Ensure highly sensitive and complex information is communicated with empathy and understanding.
- Recognize barriers and utilize a range of resources to empower children, young people, their families, carers, and other professionals to promote continence.
- Provide clear, non-ambiguous written nursing reports and management plans with the child, young person, their families, and other carers to support Child in Need, Education, and Health Care Plans and other statutory requirements.
- Assess the need for containment products, following local and national guidance, and have an awareness of the budgetary costs associated with this (attending meetings with containment products suppliers and other relevant meetings).
- Maintain stock and equipment required for the children's continence service clinics to be safe and effective within budget and ensuring best value for money.
- Acting as a resource for staff supporting the continence caseload (registered and non-registered staff in the community nursing and specialist nursing team).
- Be responsible for facilitating supervision for continence champions in 0-19 and special school services.
- Maintain own professional development, including clinical supervision in this specialist area, and requirement to take part in appraisal.
- Audit and review processes ensuring that it is following current best practice, to adapt and develop processes as appropriate within the continence service.
- Provide a learning environment for students and colleagues through the use of evidence-based practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
- Registered Qualification - Nursing Degree
- Current professional registration with NMC
- Teaching/Practice Supervisor or Practice Assessor experience
Desirable
- Specialist Community Qualification
- Member of relevant professional continence forums
- Completion of children's specialist continence training courses
- Completion of SEND specific training
- Clinical assessment and examination skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing a caseload with demonstrable evidence of supporting children and young people with SEND needs
- Knowledge of children's continence issues
- Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people with EHCP needs, participating and completing documentation/supporting professional meetings
- Experience of working autonomously in clinical practice
- Evidence of planning and delivering training to a wide range of professionals to help understanding and support of managing a health condition
Desirable
- Experience of working across services and managing workload effectively
- Experience of participating in audit
- Experience of complaints management and reporting of incidents and issues within service delivery
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to provide Specialist clinical advice and guidance both within and across agencies.
- Literate in IT and Computer Skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Report writing skills
- Ability to work as a team and as an autonomous practitioner
Desirable
- Understands budgetary constraints and working within guidelines and protocols
Safeguarding
Essential
- Ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults
- Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues, safeguarding agenda, and responsibilities in safeguarding practices
- Demonstrates how they have promoted best practice in relation to safeguarding, has an up-to-date awareness of the safeguarding agenda
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