Community Continence Sister

An exciting opportunity has risen to join the compassionate Community Continence service within the Out of Hospital Service, covering the City of Coventry and surrounding areas. Our service is based at Paybody Building near the city centre. You will be working alongside a highly skilled workforce including a Continence Clinical Nurse Specialist, fellow Continence Sisters, and other experienced Registered Nurses and Health Care Assistants.

Are you looking for an opportunity to significantly improve the quality of life of our patient group, supporting them by specialist continence assessment, treatment and continence management? We are looking for an experienced Nurse who has a passion for caring for patient with bladder, bowel and pelvic floor dysfunction. Our service provides a range of Clinic, video, telephone and home patient contacts.

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The role involves supporting the Out of Hospital staff with education around bladder and bowels dysfunction aiming to improve quality of care delivered by the wide multi-disciplinary team. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to support us with ongoing service improvement and development.

As a valued team member your development will be supported through a robust induction programme, a value based appraisal, one to one meetings, regular in-service training and clinical and managerial supervision. You will be work out of a multi professional base so there is opportunity for joint working and collaborative learning across a range of Health Professionals who are supporting and delivering high standards of clinical care. Training opportunities are supported by our Clinical Nurse Specialist, Practice Based Facilitators and Talent for Care team and is actively encouraged by Team Leads.

Our team is part of the Out of hospital service which provides a 7 day service to the city of Coventry

Our working hours are usually Monday - Friday between the hours of 0800-1800 on a flexible basis to meet the needs of the service. You may be required to work outside of these hours. Applications for flexible hours will be considered on an individual basis. Car owner/driver is essential.

Ifyouare a compassionate, dedicated team player who works well with others and is motivated by meaningful, holistic patient care; then please get in touch and help us make a real difference.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

At CWPT we put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others. We have an extensive wellbeing package to support our staff both in and out of work and we offer generous annual leave entitlement. With excellent training and development opportunities, we believe in growing our talent to be the best they can be and strive to promote from within the organisation. We listen to the feedback of our staff and service users, to ensure everyone has a voice and is recognised and valued for their contribution.

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.

JOB SUMMARY

To work within the Specialist Continence Team and be an integral part of Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust Out of Hospital Service.

To work in collaboration with all ‘Place based community nursing teams’, the acute services, social services, and Allied Health professionals with an interest or involvement in Continence management, to ensure quality service delivery, using local and national guidelines. Working together to develop a comprehensive and integrated Continence service for the patients in Coventry

To work within the Specialist Continence team, contributing to service delivery and the development of innovative practice. To be involved in identifying and disseminating new developments in continence care as appropriate. Effecting change within own sphere of practice as indicated, making recommendations for service improvement whilst influencing, motivating, supporting and enabling others in continence care

To perform advanced continence assessments for clients with bladder and/or bowel symptoms in a range of community and clinic settings. To use advanced clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to provide an accurate dia