Bank Community Continence Nurse - Merton SW

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking community healthcare organization as a Bank Community Continence Nurse. In this vital role, you will provide expert nursing care and education to patients and staff alike, ensuring the highest standards of continence management. You will work autonomously, conducting assessments and developing care plans tailored to individual needs, while also supporting the development of junior staff. This position offers the chance to make a meaningful impact in the community, promoting health and well-being among diverse populations. Embrace the opportunity to work within a supportive and inclusive environment that values your contributions and fosters professional growth.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in community nursing and continence care.
• Ability to teach and assess junior staff and students effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide continence education and support to nursing staff.
• Conduct assessments and manage care plans for patients.

Skills

Clinical Nursing Skills

Teaching and Assessing

Health Promotion

Communication Skills

IT Skills

Education

RGN

Diploma/Degree in Nursing

Post Graduate Diploma/Degree in Specialist Nursing

Non-medical Prescriber

Tools

Rio Data Systems

Job description

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Bank Community Continence Nurse - Merton SW

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Bank Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working
• Other

Bank Job ref 824-BANK-LIT1389

Site Merton Civic Centre, Town Morden Salary £21.88 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay Salary period Hourly Closing 12/03/2025 14:00

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Job overview

Job Purpose

Contribute to the control of incontinence products and prescribing expenditure by providing evidence-based continence promotion and effective communication within and outside the team.

Support and promote continence education to carers and nursing staff in care homes and monitor and authorise continence products.

Contribute to continence product budget, monitoring of spend and authorisation of continence products.

Contribute to staff and patients’ education and a culture focused on continence promotion and self-care.

Demonstrate highly developed clinical nursing skills and act as clinical advisor and educator to junior staff and have overall responsibility for clinical care in a designated area.

Accept complex referrals from community nursing team leaders in the designated area which are outside the competency of the team, or which may impact on the capacity of the team to deliver care to other patients.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for providing practical teaching support across the caseloads to improve staff’s clinical competency and support community nursing team leaders to ensure team members, pre and post registration students are knowledgeable about continence promotion.
• Conduct regular caseload profiling and contribute to community health needs assessment, agreeing health improvement priorities and the specific contribution of the community nursing service in collaboration with GP practices, caseload nursing and AHP managers. Set and monitor objectives and targets for team activities with team members.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management, quality and risk and performance of the continence service delivery.
• To support the CTL, Head of Nursing in delivering high quality care that delivers best value, and to monitor and evaluate the quality-of-care provision, identify and promote areas for service development in accordance with trust, service and team requirements.
• To work within and across professional and organisational boundaries, liaising with GP’s other professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies to deliver integrated, individualised and expert nursing care to a high standard to client, and leading communication with all stakeholders to avoid admission to hospital and to facilitate safe early discharge from hospital.

Working for our organisation

We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.

Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:

• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.

We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.

Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.

Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To work autonomously as a specialist practitioner within a locality to assess, diagnose, including differential diagnosis, to manage and agree a care plan in partnership with the patient through clinical reasoning, taking into account the risks that are associated with working in a community setting. The role focuses on patients in the community and in Nursing and Residential homes requiring continence advice and advice for correct products according to their needs.

· Undertake specialist continence assessments and re-assessments of patients affected by bladder and/or bowel conditions in line with national and local guidelines, policies, procedures and pathways.

· Interpret bladder and bowel charts accurately to identify patient problems and implement effective treatment.

· Undertake diagnostics tests such as bladder volume, ultrasonic residual urine evaluation and urinalysis.

· Undertake nursing procedures such as digital rectal examination, vaginal examination and catheterisation.

· Specialist Nurses have advisory, clinical caseload and teaching responsibilities on an equal basis in order to fulfil the role. This includes:

· Provision of expert advisory and consultative services to health care professionals across the community and primary and secondary care settings.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

• RGN
• Diploma/degree in Nursing
• Post graduate diploma/degree in specialist nursing area relevant to the post.
• Non-medical Prescriber (V100/150/200 minimum)
• Extended or Independent non-medical Prescriber (V300)
• Physical assessment course or similar.

Experience

• 1 years’ experience in specialist area
• Knowledge of, and ability to interpret and apply all relevant trust and professional policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Knowledge of processes involved in health and social policy development and of current policies and their impact on community nursing services.
• Knowledge of the physical, social, emotional, psychological, mental, cultural and societal effects of ageing, disability, and chronic ill health, and ability to assess an individual’s needs and behaviours and plan care within this broad context.
• Facilitating meetings and groups research projects or involvement within research/audit.
• Experience in community/primary care setting.

Skills and Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate highly developed clinical practice using fine motor dexterity and mental accuracy to undertake and adjust treatments.
• Teaching and assessing junior staff and post graduate students.
• Health Promotion and Health Education.
• IT skills – e-mail, basic word processing, ability to search inter and intranet. Rio data systems.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

• Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
• Race Equality Network
• Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.