Children's Continence Nurse Advisor

3 months ago

Bedford, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge?

Are you keen to be part of a team of professionals who are motivated to provide the highest quality care?

This could be the exciting opportunity you have been waiting for

We have a Band 6 position available to work within the Bedfordshire Children's Community Integrated Continence Service including responsibilities for the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provision within the service.

You would be supporting children, young people (CYP) and their families with toileting and product provision across Bedfordshire. You would be working alongside dynamic team members within the continence and wider community nursing teams.

If you share our passion for community support, enabling child and young people to reach their full potential and have experience of working with and supporting SEND we want to hear from you.

Experience of community working would be an advantage as well as experience, knowledge and understanding of working alongside other agencies and professionals including education, health and social care and the voluntary sector.

(Please note that should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised).

Main duties of the job

A new exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well established community continence nursing team. You will be well supported by the Continence Specialist Nurses within the team to deliver community care.

To be responsible for assessing the needs of individuals in the community and school settings who are experiencing bladder and or bowel dysfunction.

To provide individualised support to children, young people, and their families with/without SEND to promote continence and guide toileting.

To plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care and provide individualised advice to patients, families carers and healthcare professionals supporting toileting.

To plan, implement and evaluate training programmes for staff, inclusive of education, social services, and health to promote continence.

About us

Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

To provide individualised evidence based clinical assessment, review, and advice (in keeping with NICE guidance and local guidelines), offering treatment options and aged appropriate care to optimise continence for children and young people with/without Special Educational Needs and Disability. To undertake holistic assessment in relation to continence, including requesting information such as bladder and bowel diaries from families and carers. Support toileting workshops, devise and supply individualised toileting advice and care plans. To give clinical advice and support to parents, carers, and education staff to help them understand childhood continence conditions to support their child/young person with advised treatments (such as managing disimpaction regimens and referring back to the prescriber if needed) Be responsible for ensuring timely continence assessment and completion of reports / information requests to support Child in Need / Child Protection meetings and Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP) procedures. To facilitate / participate in the programme of education to support with the promotion of early identification, treatment, and management of childhood continence issues. To give clinical advice and support to parents, carers and education staff to help them understand childhood continence conditions to support their child/young person. Plans and organises own work including triaging referrals, clinics, administration, linemanagement (if appropriate) and meetings, prioritising work accordingly. Ensure that referrals to other health and social care partners are completed in a timely manner inconjunction with colleagues in the Continence Service and, where appropriate, the multiprofessional team. To assess the need for containment products, following local and national guidance, and have anawareness of the budgetary costs associated with this. Contribute to transition planning with the adult services Communication Ability to communicate with the Child/Young person of all ages and their families/ carers, utilisinga range of communication techniques and styles to promote continence. Work in partnership with Child/Young person and carers to enable them to make informed choicesabout 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 andguidelines supporting effective record keeping. Record incidents in line with Trust guidance and support with learning from incidents within theservice and across the wider Children and Specialist Nursing Teams. Ability to communicate with professionals both internal and external to the Trust to understandand consider how they might support childs / young persons agreed continence care plan for apositive outcome. Network and maintain effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary / multi-agencyprofessionals across primary and secondary care to ensure appropriate / individualised positivecontinence outcomes are achieved. Develop and deliver training to Childrens Services staff in education, health, social care and otheridentified partners as required. Ensures highly sensitive and complex information is communicated with empathy andunderstanding. Recognises barriers and utilises a range of resources to empower children, young people, theirfamilies, carers, and other professionals to promote continence. Provides 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 HealthCare Plans and other statutory requirements Budgetary Responsibility To assess the need for containment products, following local and national guidance, and have anawareness of the budgetary costs associated with this (attending meetings with containmentproducts suppliers and other relevant meetings) Maintain stock and equipment required for the childrens continence service clinics to be safe andeffective within budget and ensuring best value for money. People Management Acting as resource for staff supporting the continence caseload (registered and non-registered staff in the community nursing and specialist nursing team) example of supporting staff within the special school nursing team with implementation of toileting plans. To be responsible for facilitating supervision for continence champions in 0-19 and special school services. Maintaining own professional development including clinical supervision in this specialist areaand requirement to take part in appraisal. Development Activity To audit and review processes ensuring that it is following current best practice, to adapt anddevelop processes as appropriate within the continence service. To provide learning environment for students and colleagues through the use of evidence basedpractice Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

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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