Job summary
Team Name: Children's Continence Service
Base: The Ridge Hill Centre
WTE: 28 hours per week
Band: 6
Type: Permanent

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Dudley Children's Continence Service to support our nurse led team in community clinics. The successful nurse will have experience working with school aged children with bladder and bowel problems involving completing holistic assessments and developing personalised plans.

The service will offer both clinical and managerial supervision in order to support the individual.

If you require more information about the role, please contact Louise Andrews, Continence Lead Nurse or Angela Nunn, Specialist Continence Nurse on 01384 324510 or bchft.continenceteam@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

• Job Purpose: To support the clinical lead in developing a paediatric community continence team in the Dudley locality
• To help children and young people achieve complete continence or to manage the condition discreetly and effectively if full control is clinically not possible
• To treat children and young people with both bladder and bowel problems
• Prevent unplanned hospitalisation for constipation and urinary infections
• Responsible for assessing, developing and implementing specialist continence care programmes in community and clinic settings for children and young people, 5-19 years, within Dudley
• Support with the promotion of continence and management of incontinence with this defined age group
• Develop and implement education and training programmes for defined age group, carers and relevant community staff - School Nurses, Health Visitors, GPs

About us
Our Trust Values are: Honest and Transparent, Empowerment, Dignity and Respect, Integrity, Compassion and Kindness
Our Trust Behaviours are:

• Be caring and demonstrate compassion
• Have the courage to take action
• Communicate effectively
• Treat everyone as an individual
• Be competent and professional

Job responsibilities

• Responsibility for Patient Care (including monitoring, diagnostics and investigations)
• Work with children who are slow to acquire faecal and urinary incontinence
• Work autonomously within continence clinics without supervision, accountable for own professional actions
• Ensure that all patient records are completed and maintained in line with Trust policy, observing patient confidentiality at all times
• Provide specialist assessment, support and treatment for children aged 0-19 years who have more complex continence needs
• Refer children and young people to other specialists and agencies as appropriate
• Refer to the Continence Lead if any issues require more specialist advice and intervention, thereby maintaining high service standards
• Deal with patient complaints in a positive and sensitive way in accordance with Trust policy
• Practice competencies developed, upholding the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• Be aware of Dudley Safeguarding/Child Protection policy and requirements
• Act as an advisor to primary health care staff on matters relating to the patients management and provide clinical, professional advice
• Support the transition of young people from paediatric to adult care, liaising with the adult Urology and Gastroenterology team
• Act as a role model of excellence in childrens continence care
• Provide professional advice, support and leadership to colleagues
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with staff supporting the needs of children with disabilities, school nurses, health visitors, occupational therapists and physiotherapists
• Contribute to service reviews and development work as appropriate to grade in collaboration with the Service manager and clinical lead
• Maintain and deliver nurse-led community childrens continence clinics
• Manage a clinical caseload ensuring effective relationships with other health, education and social care professionals
• Maintain patient records and clinical activity recordings to monitor patient contacts and clinical outcomes
• Develop audit tools to assure quality care is paramount

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Demonstrates experience for assessing, developing, implementing/reviewing specialist continence care programmes including both bladder and bowel care
• Experience of implementing education and training programmes for a defined age group, carers and relevant community staff
• Special knowledge in management of bladder and bowel conditions
• Apply relevant research to ensure evidence based practice
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Use a varied array of skills to devise continence packages for children with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, communication disabilities, complex health care
• Ability to use PC based software programmes e.g. email, word
• Ability to organise own workload and be responsible for managing time and resources effectively
• Ability to work across localities in Dudley

Desirable

• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Extensive experience working with children
• Extensive experience working in the community
• Ability to develop audits/standard setting and develop guidelines/policies
• Knowledge of children and young peoples division
• Knowledge of standards, governance systems and clinical audit

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer contact details
Louise Andrews, Childrens Continence Lead Nurse
louise.andrews5@nhs.net
01384324510

Location: The Ridge Hill Centre, Brierley Hill, DY8 5ST

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