Continence Nurse Important Information

Wirral Community Health & Care Nhs Foundation Trustare; Ness; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a professional for the Bladder & Bowel Service. The ideal candidate will assess patient needs, implement care programs, and work within a multidisciplinary team. Excellent communication skills are essential to support patients in self-management. We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, supporting a variety of conditions.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to support patients.

Responsibilities

• Assess bladder and bowel function.
• Manage, implement and evaluate individual programmes of patient care.
• Use of portable Bladder scanner to inform assessment.
• Prioritising a delegated workload effectively.
• Recognising signs of deterioration and escalate.

Job description

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

Responsibilities include:

• 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.

The ideal candidate will have 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.

We are a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer. WCHC is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of disability, age, sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, marriage/civil partnership or transgender status.