Clinical Nurse Specialist Children's Continence | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking a dynamic Clinical Nurse Specialist to support children with complex needs ages 2-5. The role involves developing and evaluating continence services, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and delivering education to families. Successful candidates will have strong clinical and communication skills, with a commitment to continuous improvement. This is a fixed-term position that offers substantial development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Comprehensive development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working with children with complex needs.
• Ability to deliver health promotion and education to families.
• Proven track record of working in community nursing.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and evaluate services for children needing continence support.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure holistic care.
• Contribute to clinical practice development and research.

Skills

Clinical skills

Communication skills

Continuous improvement mindset

Education

Relevant nursing qualifications

Job description

We are seeking to recruit a dynamic and innovative nurse with enthusiasm and experience to join our Complex Needs Continence Team. This fixed term role has been created to enable the existing service to transform and extend it's reach, offering complex needs children aged between 2-5 years old access to continence and toileting support. A secondment into this post will be considered for the successful applicant. If the project is evaluated successfully there is the potential for recurrent funding, creating a permanent position.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will be an integral part of a team that sits within the wider Children's community nursing service, working together to deliver this specialist service to children and families across the primary/secondary care interface. You will bring excellent communication, clinical skills and a desire to maintain and role model a culture of continuous improvement and innovation to inspire our workforce.

You will benefit from excellent support within the team from an experienced Continence Nurse Specialist and we will offer you a comprehensive range of experience and development opportunities.

If you feel you have the skills, enthusiasm and ambition deliver continence and toileting support to children and young people with complex needs in this fantastic team, we would love to hear from you.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work. We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

In partnership with members of the multidisciplinary nursing team the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service for children and young people requiring continence and toileting support within the community, ensuring that children and families receive the highest standard of holistic care. They will work alongside a lead specialist and will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the Children's Community Nursing service, providing specialist advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients.

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues. Also ensures the safety and well-being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person‑centred care principles.

This fixed term role has been created to enable the existing service to transform and extend it's reach, offering complex needs children aged between 2-5 years old access to continence and toileting support.

The successful candidate will be involved with nurse‑led clinics, training, the delivery of health promotion and toileting advice, supporting children and young people with Complex Needs, wherever possible to achieve their potential.

They will act as a resource for expert advice for other healthcare professionals and must be competent to deliver health promotion and education to parents, their families and others.

As part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Evelina London is there for children, young people and women from London to South East England and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world.

Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in our hospitals and throughout our local community, continues to grow. We support families from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. Right in the heart of vibrant London, we benefit from excellent transport links, we have staff working here from the local areas, spanning across London, and further afield into the home counties.

We strive to recruit and retain staff who are motivated to develop and learn with us as we continually strive to ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe, and focused on women, children and their families.

Here is a snippet of what our staff say about us, and working here:

"I have learnt what it means to be an outstanding nurse and I would like to contribute further alongside passionate and competent nurses."