Children and Young People's Continence Nurse

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

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking a permanent Children and Young People’s Continence Nurse to deliver a patient-centred continence service across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. The role involves community nurse clinics, home visits and collaboration with professionals to improve bladder and bowel outcomes for children.

You will assess, plan and evaluate care, provide education, support service development and participate in audits.

Qualifications

• RN child/RSCN or RGN with children's experience.
• Diploma level specialist training and short courses in continence management for children & young people.
• NMC registered.

Responsibilities

• Provide education/advisory service for patients, families and carers with continence problems.
• Deliver continence services in community nurse-led clinics, home visits and other settings with post-basic knowledge.
• Perform comprehensive assessments, plan, implement and evaluate care for children with continence needs.
• Respond to patient, family and professional telephone enquiries as required.
• Coordinate with the Administrator to organise clinic sessions and ensure year-round coverage.
• Support teaching and awareness sessions for health, education and social colleagues.
• Involve in service development and audit.

Skills

Continence care

Pediatric nursing

Assessment skills

Communication

Education

RN Child/RSCN or RGN with children's experience

Diploma level specialist training in continence management

Job description

Children and Young People's Continence Nurse

Please note that this job does not meet the salary requirements for work visa sponsorship and as such we will be unable to progress your application if you do not have the right to work in the UK.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent position within our Community Children and Young People's Continence service. We are seeking a highly motivated Nurse to join us. 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. However on occasions, there may be the need for the post holder to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service, including seeing the 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 Telford 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.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• RN child/RSCN or RGN with children's experience
• Diploma level specialist training, experience, short courses relevant to the effective management of bladder and bowel problems in children & young people
• NMC Registered

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 and Skills

• 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
• Ability to undertake critical appraisal of research

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