Bank Children and Young People's Continence Nurse

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking a Bank Children and Young People’s Continence Nurse to join our team across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. The role involves delivering continence services for children and young people, including home visits, in clinic settings and community venues.

The post requires current nursing registration with child/pediatric experience and knowledge of NICE guidelines for continence management.

Qualifications

• Qualified nurse with child/pediatric experience and ability to manage continence issues in children.
• Knowledge of NICE guidelines and medication management for paediatrics.

Responsibilities

• Promote continence education for patients, families and professionals.
• Provide a community-based continence service via clinics and home visits.
• Record assessments and implement care plans for children and young people.
• Respond to telephone enquiries and coordinate clinic sessions.

Skills

Child Nursing

Pediatric experience

Education

RN Child

Degree in Nursing

Job description

Bank Children and Young People's Continence Nurse

We are seeking a highly motivated nurse to join our Children and Young People's Continence Nursing team. The post holder will take a key role in the delivery of a wide range of bladder and bowel dysfunction services for children and young people across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.

The successful candidate will need to already possess the skills and knowledge in continence treatment and have an awareness of the medication management in line with NICE guidelines and other strategies used for children with incontinence.

Operational hours are Monday- Friday 09.00-17.00, through telephone clinics and face to face clinics being delivered at Coral House, Shrewsbury, Donnington Medical Practice and Stirchley Health Centre in Telford as well as seeing children in their own homes or other community settings.

The post holder will need to be able to meet the travel requirements of the role.

Main duties of the job

• To promote continence by providing education / advisory service for patients, professionals and others caring for patients with continence problems.
• To provide a continence service in community nurse-led clinics, home visits and other community settings and have extensive knowledge of the defined speciality using evidence of post basic study.
• To perform comprehensive assessments, plan, implement and evaluate care for children and young people with continence needs within Shropshire and Treford and Wrekin.
• To respond to patients, family and professionals telephone enquiries as required.
• To liaise with the Administrator to support the organisation of clinic sessions and ensure year round cover for the Children and Young People's Continence service.
• To support teaching and awareness raising sessions for health, education and social colleagues.
• To be involved in service development and audit.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RN child/RSCN or RGN with children's experience
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree level qualification
• Post registration diploma level specialist training, experience, short courses relevant to the effective management of bladder and bowel problems in children & young people

Experience

• Experience in undertaking comprehensive assessment of bladder and bowel function and the ability / readiness of children to be toilet trained and engage with treatments.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of child protection/safeguarding.
• Experience of decision making
• Experience in working independently and proactively

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of bladder and bowel problems and appropriate treatment / management options
• Knowledge of completing a continence assessment, identifying and manage bladder or bowel dysfunction
• Good understanding of policies, care pathways, and NICE guidelines relating to enuresis and continence

Other

• Must be able to meet travel requirements of post

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum/pro rata