Job summary
An exciting part-time Continence specialist nurse post at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, working across the all four sites as part of a small friendly and committed inpatient service.

This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated and enthusiastic person to utilise their clinical skills within a supportive and dedicated team.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will respond to inpatient referrals from across the trust, in person and/by phone. Working to support patients and staff in all areas of continence and catheter care. Assessing patients for, and teaching intermittent catheterisation. Education is a significant part of the role delivering bespoke and regular teaching on induction programmes university courses and also in response to requests from specific clinical areas.

About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and provide comprehensive clinical care, specialist advice, and psychosocial support to patients and their families and carers who are referred to the Continence service.
• Work as an autonomous, specialist practitioner alongside members of the multidisciplinary team as required within the Continence service.
• Service specific skills, tasks or procedures required are to:
• Communicate with patients in ways that empowers them to make informed choices about their healthcare.
• Act as an advocate for individuals and the client group.
• Provide appropriate education to healthcare professionals, patients, their families and carers, to promote health and encourage selfcare
• Maintain adequate documentation to NMC requirements for all patients seen and advice given in any practice setting and contribute to clinical activity/data collection as required.
• Be a defined point of contact for ward staff requiring advice or support with continence issues
• Accept appropriate patient referrals from clinical areas to give advice on aspects of continence, including bowel, bladder and catheter associated urinary tract infection prevention
• Role may include line management and/or supervision of junior members of staff in the continence service, if required.
• Be flexible within the Continence service to ensure appropriate specialist cover.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse (NMC) or AHP (HCPC)
• First level degree (HEI Level 5 or 6) in undergraduate base profession
• Demonstrable evidence of ability to achieve post-graduate study at Level 6 or 7 study.
• Supervision, Mentoring or Facilitating Workplace Learning Qualification

Desirable

• Leadership Course or Qualification
• Completed or completing Level 7 MSc, relevant to clinical area or speciality, or willing to undertake

Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Demonstrates knowledge or transferrable skills within speciality of the recruiting area for the role
• Excellent clinical and practical skills
• Awareness of clinical governance issues and measures of quality

Desirable

• Experience of team leadership ability or management skills
• Experience of applying research evidence to own clinical practice
• Experience of clinical governance practices, audit, service evaluation or quality improvement in clinical practice
• Existing technical clinical procedural skills relevant to clinical service

Personal Skills
Essential

• Commitment to studying for any required post-graduate training needs identified.
• Commitment to evidencing own professional development, capabilities and competency development via work-based assessments and use of a portfolio.
• Willingness to engage in clinical supervision to develop knowledge, skills and behaviours across the breadth of the four pillars of practice
• Able to organise own workload effectively
• Enthusiasm towards teaching patients, staff and others in the MDT as needed.
• Ability to recognise own limitations, working within scope of practice, acting on feedback from clinical supervisors when required.
• Flexibility to work a variety of shifts, which may include days/weekends or nights, as required to complete training and clinical supervision in practice, and dependent on service needs.
• Evidence of effective team working as part of a multi-disciplinary professional team

Desirable

• Ability to undertake clinical audits or service evaluations
• Evidence of delivering educational teaching and associated evaluations, internally and/or externally to the organisation

Behavioural Skills
Essential

• Demonstrates a clear vision of the role in developing the clinical service
• Aligned to the Trust values
• Conducts themselves in an inclusive, professional manner at all times
• Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders
• Willingness and enthusiasm towards working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in delivering care

Technical IM&T Skills
Essential

• Computer literate with experience of working with Microsoft Office packages
• Advanced keyboard skills, to ensure fluent documentation.

Desirable

• Evidence of e-portfolio use.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).