Continence Nurse

NHS; Birkenhead; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health and care trust is seeking a professional for the Bladder & Bowel Service to ensure timely and appropriate care for patients. This role involves assessing and managing individual care programmes, collaborating within a multidisciplinary team, and promoting health education. The ideal candidate must be registered as a General Nurse (RGN) with excellent communication and organisational skills.

Qualifications

• Understanding of National Government initiatives impacting local services.
• Knowledge of bladder and bowel conditions.
• Understanding of presentations of multiple pathology, depression, anxiety, and frailty.

Responsibilities

• Assess bladder and bowel function and implement patient care programmes.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and agencies.
• Promote health and well-being through education.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Effective organisational skills

Ability to manage complex situations

Computer literate

Education

RGN

Current NMC Registration

Job description

Job summary: The role will be part of Bladder & Bowel Service and work with a range of professionals in order to ensure bladder and bowel care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.

The role will demonstrate their professional skills and competence in care planning / coordination, medicines management, and care and treatment delivery.

This role requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills to support patients with a wide range of conditions to understand and, where possible, take on self-management of their condition.

The role requires the ability to be flexible and adaptable whilst working in people's homes and other community settings.

A desire to promote continence and support the Continence Nurse Specialists to deliver continence care to adults and children with bladder and bowel dysfunction.

Main duties of the job

• Assess bladder and bowel function, manage, implement and evaluate individual programmes of patient care on correct application of continence aids and offer informed choices.
• Use of portable Bladder scanner to inform assessment.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate bladder and bowel pathways of patients.
• Prioritising a delegated workload and effectively managing time and working effectively within the team.
• Ability to ensure anticipatory care needs are understood and met.
• Recognising signs of deterioration and escalate.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary team or other agencies.
• Makes accurate observation and judgements on problems requiring investigation, analysis or samples taken.
• Checks, administer and disposes of drugs according to the Trust policies.
• Encouraging patient independence and self-care.
• Assess clinical and environmental risk and share with appropriate services.
• Promotes UTI improvement work and antibiotic guardianship.
• The named mentor for pre-registration student.
• Promotes the health and well- being of clients and their families / carers through health promotion activities.
• Takes part in the prevention and control of the spread of diseases.
• Undertakes joint visit with MDT.
• Order appropriate products via home delivery service.
• Provides support and assists with continence promotion projects and raising public awareness of continence issues.
• Delivers educational programmes to other practitioners in group or one-to-one settings.

About us

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by CQC (Dec 2023) with some outstanding areas.

As an aspiring outstanding Trust we have numerous policies and procedures in place which provide standard organisational ways of working, in line with organisational objectives, relevant legislation and requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential:

• RGN
• Current NMC Registration
• Evidence of further recent professional development

Desirable:

• Mentorship module or working towards
• Community nursing experience

Experience & Knowledge

Essential:

• Understanding of National Government initiatives in health and social care and how they impact on local services
• Knowledge of a broad range of bladder and bowel conditions.
• An understanding of the presentations of multiple pathology, depression and anxiety states and frailty, predominantly in older people
• Knowledge of the management of uncomplicated symptoms in those patients with bladder and bowel problems and enhanced communication skills to confidently manage uncertainty
• Understands the role of the Continence Nurse in the Community

Desirable:

• Community nursing experience

Skills & Abilities

Essential:

• Excellent communication skills written and oral
• Effective organisations skills
• Evidence of managing people and complex situations
• Ability to articulate the evidence underpinning patients' care plans and interventions.
• Computer literate
• Access to a car for work purposes