Job summary
An exciting opportunity has become available within our busy and expanding Children's Bladder and Bowel Service working in the community. If you are a dynamic, motivated and forward thinking Children's Nurse and want to be part of a gold standard service, then this may be just the job for you. There will be lots of opportunities for learning new skills and qualifications, including the NMP course.

The Children's Bladder and Bowel Service is a small team consisting of Nurse Specialists, Continence Support Workers and an Administration support. The team are enthusiastic, knowledgeable and extremely friendly and supportive group of people, who recognise individuality and encourage progress and change.

Our Children's Continence Team are based at Broadoaks CDC in Leyland, where you will be based, however there will be an expectation to travel across the Preston, Chorley and South Ribble patch to cover clinics.

An Enhanced DBS with lists for children is required for this post.

Interview date may have to be later than advertised.

Main duties of the job
To provide expert Children's Continence Service to Children and Young People with bladder and bowel problems at Tier/ Level 2.

To provide appropriate child and family focused nursing support to Children Young People and their families that responds to individual and local community needs. To take into account the need to prevent hospital admission. To facilitate early discharge and provide ongoing continence care for children and young people with continence needs working across the whole of the child/ young person's environment- home, school, community and hospital- to facilitate participation, inclusion and normality.

An ability to work as an autonomous practitioner is paramount to assess children holistically, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care.

You will contribute to continuous improvement of the service through teaching and support of other health care professionals and acting as a source of nursing expertise in this area.

About us
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet new people & do things you may possibly never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles, to building new skills & enhancing your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal, and something to be proud of.

Job responsibilities
Post holder to work flexibly across the Children's Bladder and Bowel service, delivering high quality, evidence-based bladder and bowel care for children and young people.

Perform and interpret complex skills in; urinalysis, bladder and bowel charting, ultrasound bladder scanning.

Draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources in their practice.

Develop and use knowledge and skills in order that professional development, bladder and bowel competencies can be maintained and keep professional portfolio up to date. To accept responsibility for own professional practice as a reflective, accountable clinical practitioner.

Escalate concerns in relation to management plans/ treatment/ safeguarding/ social issues to ensure the child's safety is paramount and in accordance with legislation.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Qualifications & Education
Essential

• Appropriate NMC Registration - Children's trained
• Mentorship qualification

Desirable

• Specialist Practitioner Degree in Children's Nursing
• Non-medical prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards

Knowledge & Experience
Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people with continence issues
• Previous experience of undertaking continence assessments
• Ability to Implement changes within nursing practice
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice
• Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures
• Experience of mentorship

Desirable

• Bladder scanning skills

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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.