Children's Continence Nurse

HCRG Care Group; Chippenham; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Band 6 AfC salary with NHS Pension

Mid-scale benefits & discounts

Flexible wage access

Job summary

HCRG Care Group seeks a Children’s Continence Nurse to support children and families in Chippenham and across Wiltshire. You will manage a caseload and work with a multi-disciplinary team to deliver specialist continence care.

Location involves office, home and clinic settings with occasional home/school visits. The ideal candidate is a registered children's nurse (or SCPHN) with community experience and a commitment to child-centered care.

Qualifications

• RSCN or RN Child or SCPHN qualification is required.
• Experience with children with additional needs is essential.
• Current NMC registration and knowledge of child protection procedures are required.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and to reflect on practice is essential.
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills with complex information.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of children with bladder and/or bowel needs.
• Collaborate with professionals to support child and family nursing needs.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist interventions with clear advice.
• Deliver both direct and indirect programmes of intervention.
• Promote inclusion and respect entitlements across settings.
• Assess and adjust specialist input to meet children’s needs in all settings.

Skills

RSCN/RN Child or SCPHN

Experience with children with extra/af

NMC registration

Child protection knowledge

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Self-reflection & appraisal

Organising complex information

Prioritising workload with support

Child-centred practice

Sharing skills/knowledge

Effective communication of complex/sen

Accurate record keeping

Knowledge of child development

Nursing models & practice

Legislation & guidelines

Observation & therapeutic assessments

CPD evidence

Basic IT skills

Community/primary care experience

Willingness to travel

Non-Medical Prescriber

Job description

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Are you a compassionate and motivated nurse looking to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children and young people? We are seeking a dedicated Children’s Continence Nurse to join our friendly, supportive team in Chippenham. In this rewarding role, you will work closely with children, families, and multidisciplinary professionals to deliver high-quality continence care, support early intervention, and empower young people to achieve greater independence .

This is a part-time role working 22.5 hours per week. Working week must include a Monday.

Base:

You will be based in Wiltshire at a hub closest to your home. This can include Greenways SN15 1BN, Highpost SP4 6At and Derby Court BA14 0XG.

Job Schedule:

The service hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

You will be working from the office, home and clinic space. You will also on occasions complete home visits and school visits.

Main Responsibilities:

• To manage a caseload of children who have bladder and/or bowel needs independently .
• To work with other professionals to support the child and families nursing needs.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist interventions, providing clear advice to the child, family, professionals, and care workers .
• Implement both direct and indirect and robust programmes of intervention.
• To be aware of client entitlements and rights and work within, and promote, an ethos of inclusion across all settings.
• Accurately assess and immediately adjust specialist input and support to meet the child ’s needs in all settings .

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

The ideal candidate will have:

• RSCN/RN Child or Specialist Practioner.eg SCPHN
• Experience/knowledge of working with children with additional needs
• Current registration with the NMC
• Extensive knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
• Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary interagency team.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
• Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
• Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines with the support of a senior nurse .
• Commitment to child - centred practice.
• Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.
• Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive written and verbal information.
• Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.
• Broad knowledge of normal child development.
• Working knowledge of a wide range of nursing models of practice.
• Working knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines.
• Working knowledge and evidence of observational implementation of therapeutic assessments, interventions relevant to children and young people.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Basic IT skills.
• Experience of working within the community/primary care setting.
• Ability to travel to meet the needs of the role.
• Non-Medical Prescriber

Package Description

As a Children’s Continence Nurseyou will be part of our valued team in our 0-19 Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone .

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As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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