Clinical Nurse Specialist - Continence advisory service.

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Continence Advisory Service

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The continence advisory service works across Lambeth and Southwark to provide a high-quality comprehensive health service for patients with bowel and bladder continence problems. The specialist nurse lead service offers clinical interventions, support, and advice for patients with bladder and bowel problems via hospital-based clinics, community-based clinics, and home (care homes) visits. Working closely with colleagues at the Guys and St Thomas hospital sites and community-based teams, the service is in a period of transformation and looking to explore new models of service delivery and dynamic approaches to promoting continence. This post will suit an enterprising nurse with the knowledge, skills, and compassion aligned with achieving continence for our patients. The post holder will be instrumental in developing new and innovative ways of delivering our service.

Main Duties of the Job

The post holder will offer a high-quality nurse-led continence advice clinic, based in the community and/or the hospital, delivering either face-to-face, video, or telephone consultations, providing expertise in a range of bladder and bowel problems. The post holder will primarily be based in the Continence Advisory Service across Lambeth & Southwark but will potentially also cover and work in the in-hospital services. The service also offers an in-reach service to Care Homes.

Job Responsibilities

1. To work autonomously, managing a caseload of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the wider team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
2. Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the specialty. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same.
3. Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient-oriented approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.

Person Specification

Professional Registration

• Registered General Nurse (RN)
• NMC Registration
• Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient-focused care or proven evidence of management/leadership skills and autonomous practice.
• Experience of audit, research, and evidence-based practice.

Knowledge, Skills, and Ability

• Advanced clinical, managerial, and leadership skills in specialty.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the National agenda for specialty.
• Ability to carry out audit and research.
• Undertaken clinical & nursing research.

Qualifications

• Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience, and short courses to Master's level equivalent.
• Post-registration qualification in appropriate area of specialty or equivalent post-qualification experience.
• Mentorship/teaching course.
• Leadership course.
• To have or working towards a master's degree.
• To have or working towards a non-medical physical assessment course.

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.

Address

GSTT Community Continence Advisory Service