Band 5 Paediatric Continence Nurse

NHS; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job description

As a Paediatric Continence Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care and services to support individuals and teams. Working within a collaborative environment, you will provide essential services tailored to meet the unique needs of those we serve.

Based at The Orbital, Swindon, you will have the flexibility to work within a model that supports both on-site and hybrid working arrangements, depending on the nature of the role. HCRG Care Group is committed to fostering an agile and adaptable workforce to best meet the needs of our organization and service users.

Main duties of the job

1. Support the Continence Team Lead with service management, development and team leadership and organisation.
2. Work with the lead clinician to develop service standards and guidelines, literature and patient information leaflets.
3. Organise, direct and complete aspects of service evaluation and development such as audit and service feedback.
4. Actively seek personal and professional development and maintain and develop knowledge and clinical skills to meet personal and professional objectives. Participate in staff development providing in service training.
5. Maintain and develop and share knowledge base including NICE, RCN, Occupational Standards and Marsden manual guidance.
6. Confidently work alone including remote working and managing clinics without supervision.
7. Liaise with suppliers and meet company representatives to update on latest products and developments to provide expert resource to others.
8. Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives and professionals across health and social services.
9. Be actively involved with managing the absorbent product service prescribing within guidelines to support budget management.
10. Be aware of the principles of safeguarding as they apply to vulnerable adults and children in relation to the worker's role, including recognising the types and signs of abuse and neglect.

About us

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.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit our website.

Job responsibilities

1. Education related to assessment, treatment and management of bladder and bowel dysfunction.
2. Gynaecology/Urology/Community experience.
3. Teaching and mentoring qualification and experience of teaching professionals, colleagues and patients/carers.
4. Evidence of ongoing professional development.
5. Experience of continence assessment and treatments.
6. Experience of continence management options including application of absorbent pad products and catheterisation.
7. Significant experience of infection prevention and control.
8. Experience of physical examinations such as rectal examinations.
9. Experience of teaching.
10. Experience of mentoring.
11. Significant experience of decision making.
12. Some experience of leadership skills and knowledge.
13. Significant skills for planning and organisation of own caseload and supporting non-registered colleagues.
14. Significant skills of working collaboratively and autonomously.
15. Significant skill of working proactively.
16. Significant evidence of excellent team working.
17. Some experience of managing a patient caseload.
18. Some experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment.
19. A good standard of written and spoken English is required to be able to undertake the relevant duties.
20. Knowledge of national continence guidelines facilitating a continence assessment.
21. Knowledge of completing a continence assessment identifying a bladder and/or bowel dysfunction.

Please see the attached Job Description for the full list.

As a Paediatric Continence Nurse, you'll be part of our valued team in Swindon.

You will feel valued as a Paediatric Continence Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of £29,970 - £36,483 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Free tea and coffee at your base location.
• 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 as career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

Person Specification

General Requirements

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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.