Job summary
As a Childrens Continence Nurse, youll benefit from being part of a valued team, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: £32,073.00 - £39,043.00 FTE Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions + 5% Fringe Allowance. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you. Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates. Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling. Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development.

Main duties of the job
Join our Children's Continence Service and play a vital role in improving the health, wellbeing and independence of children and young people aged 0-19 years experiencing bladder and bowel difficulties. In this rewarding position, you will provide specialist assessment, care and support, developing and delivering evidence-based interventions tailored to individual needs. Working closely with families, schools, primary care services, and multidisciplinary teams, you will help improve well-being, build confidence, and enhance the quality of life. As a key member of a compassionate and dedicated team, you will contribute to delivering a safe, effective, and responsive service, helping to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Main Responsibilities

• Conduct continence assessments for children and young people with bladder and bowel difficulties, including nocturnal enuresis, day wetting, constipation, soiling, and toilet training needs.
• Develop, implement and review personalised treatment plans, adapting interventions as required.
• Deliver nurse-led clinics and provide home or school visits where appropriate.
• Offer advice on continence products and support access to specialist equipment.
• Build positive relationships with children, young people and families, providing education and support using age-appropriate approaches.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including GPs, paediatricians, school nurses, therapists, education providers and social care professionals.
• Recognise and escalate complex clinical needs appropriately.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and ensure practice aligns with local and national guidelines.
• Promote safeguarding, wellbeing and positive outcomes for children and young people.

Essential

• RGN and/or RSCN with current NMC registration and relevant child health and/or learning disability experience.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Knowledge of children's bladder and bowel health, safeguarding, infection prevention, consent and clinical record keeping.
• Strong communication, organisational and time-management skills.
• Ability to build positive relationships with children, young people and families.
• Able to work independently, manage priorities and contribute effectively within a team.
• IT literate with experience of electronic patient records.
• Understanding of community health services and child protection procedures.

Desirable

• Knowledge of NICE guidance relating to childhood constipation and enuresis.
• Experience of continence products and prescribing pathways.

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

The company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. For more on how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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.

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

Contact
If you require any further information please contact Charlie on 07393785609 or charlie.taylor@hcrgcaregroup.com.