Job summary
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The post holder provides expert, evidence-based continence care across Bexley, linking acute, primary, community, social and voluntary services. Responsibilities include assessing and case-managing complex bladder and bowel needs, developing personalised care plans, performing catheterisation and bladder scanning, maintaining accurate RIO records, and supporting vulnerable patients and carers.

The role provides specialist advice, education and mentorship, contributes to multidisciplinary discharge planning, service development, audit, commissioning and budget management, and supervises junior nurses and administrative staff. It requires effective communication, autonomous decision-making, lone working, regular travel, safe patient handling, and managing clinical, emotional and behavioural risks professionally within relevant guidance and standards.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver evidence-based specialist continence care within community services.
• Provide specialist advice, education and support to patients, the public and healthcare professionals across Bexley.
• Collaborate across primary, secondary and community care to improve continence services through integrated multidisciplinary working.
• Deputise for the Band 7 Team Lead when required.

About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities
The post holder provides expert, evidence-based continence care across Bexley, linking acute, primary, community, social and voluntary services. Responsibilities include assessing and case-managing complex bladder and bowel needs, developing personalised care plans, performing catheterisation and bladder scanning, maintaining accurate RIO records, and supporting vulnerable patients and carers. The role provides specialist advice, education and mentorship, contributes to multidisciplinary discharge planning, service development, audit, commissioning and budget management, and supervises junior nurses and administrative staff. It requires effective communication, autonomous decision-making, lone working, regular travel, safe patient handling, and managing clinical, emotional and behavioural risks professionally within relevant guidance and standards.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.

Person Specification
Shortlist
Essential

• Registered Nurse - Adult
• Experience in assessing and managing patients with bladder, bowel catheter related or complex continence needs.
• Car driver with own car

Desirable

• Continence course at level 6
• Experience working in the community
• experience of clinical audit, quality improvement

Experience and management
Essential

• Practice assessor or practice supervisor

Desirable

• Previous clinical team management experience

skills/abilities/ knowledge
Essential

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and interpersonal skills.

Desirable

• Ability to identify best practice and implement action plans to resolve weakness in care provision

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).