Nursery Nurse Continence Service

Northumbria Group.; North Shields; Remote; GBP 28,000 - 31,000; Part time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare is seeking a Nursery Nurse to join the Children's Continence Service in North Tyneside. The role supports children and families with bladder and bowel health, working with Specialist Continence Nurses to provide clinics and outreach support.

The post requires experience in toilet training and supporting children with additional needs, strong communication skills, and the ability to build relationships with schools, families and professionals.

Qualifications

• Experience of supporting children with toilet training.
• Experience in supporting children/young people with additional and complex needs.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of continence care across North Tyneside.
• Provide toilet training advice and support to children, families, schools and nurseries.
• Assist Specialist Continence Nurses during clinics and follow-up care.
• Deliver health promotion and education on healthy bladder and bowel habits.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to service data collection.

Job description

Main area Community paediatric continence service, Grade NHS AfC: Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

22.5 hours per week (the service works Monday to Friday, the hours will be completed over 3 full days) Job ref 319-8388774IO

Site Victoria Therapy Centre Town North Shields Salary £28,392 - £31,157 Pro rata, Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/11/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

Are you passionate about supporting children, young people and families to achieve their full potential?

We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic and motivated Nursery Nurse to join our friendly and innovative Children's Continence Service covering the North Tyneside area.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a specialist nursing team supporting children and young people with bladder and bowel health needs. You will play an important role in delivering evidence-based advice, supporting clinics, and working closely with families, schools and healthcare professionals to help improve health outcomes and quality of life.

The successful candidate will have experience of supporting children withtoilet training and will have had previous involvement in supporting children/ young people with additional and complex needs. You will be passionate about improving outcomes for children and families, have excellent communication skills, and be able to build positive relationships with children, parents, carers, schools and multidisciplinary professionals.

Main duties of the job

As a Nursery Nurse within the Children's Continence Service, you will play a key role in supporting children, young people and their families to achieve positive bladder and bowel health outcomes. Working alongside Specialist Continence Nurses, your duties will include:

• Supporting the delivery of continence care across North Tyneside.
• Undertaking continence product reviews and monitoring ongoing product provision in line with individual needs.
• Providing practical toilet training advice and support to children, families, schools and nursery settings.
• Assisting Specialist Nurses in continence clinics.
• Delivering health promotion and education to encourage healthy toileting habits and independence.
• Maintaining accurate clinical records and contributing to service data collection and audits.

Assisting with the continence product home delivery service by updating patient records, activating orders and ensuring accurate information is maintained.

Supporting nursing staff to resolve continence product-related issues, including complex product fitting and sizing concerns.

• Liaising with a range of professionals including schools, health visitors, community staff and other healthcare teams to ensure coordinated care.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will support the Children's Continence Service in delivering high-quality care to children, young people and their families.

Key responsibilities include:

• Undertaking continence product reviews and monitoring ongoing product provision to meet individual needs.
• Providing practical toilet training advice and support to children, families, schools and nursery settings.
• Assisting Specialist Continence Nurses during clinics and follow-up care.
• Delivering health promotion and education to encourage healthy bladder and bowel habits and independence.
• Supporting the continence product home delivery service by updating records and activating orders.
• Assisting nursing staff to resolve continence product issues, including complex fitting and sizing concerns.
• Maintaining accurate clinical records and contributing to service audits and data collection.
• Working in accordance with safeguarding, confidentiality and organisational policies.

The post holder will work closely with:

• Children, young people and their families/carers.
• Specialist Continence Nurses and wider Children's Community Services.
• School Nursing and Health Visiting teams.
• Schools, nurseries and educational settings.
• GPs, Allied Health Professionals and Social Care colleagues.
• Continence product suppliers and home delivery providers.