Job summary
- Main area
- Continence
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8am-4pm Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 310-OPAC-6620820
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Histon Police Station
- Town
- Cambridge Impington
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Continence Specialist Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an exceptional Band 6 Continence Specialist Nurse to join our talented and committed integrated community team covering the Peterborough area.
The post will be 37.5 hours a week and you will be required to travel county wide.
The role includes assessing complex patients in their home or in a nurse led clinic setting, participating in teaching and mentoring of other professionals, engaging in clinical trials and research and have an in-depth knowledge of continence formularies. You will be required to work closely with other stakeholders.
If you are highly motivated, enthusiastic and feel you have Continence expertise we would like to hear from you.
The post holder will undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and will be supported by senior colleagues, they will participate in evidence-based audits and research projects.
Main duties of the job
To provide an advanced standard of clinical assessment evidence-based advice and education to individuals with bladder and bowel problems.
To plan, implement and evaluate specialist packages of care for individuals with bladder and bowel problems.
To work as part of the multidisciplinary team with the aim of preventing admission,
supporting early discharge and providing ongoing or shared care for patients with
continence problems.
To provide advice and education to the general public and other healthcare
professionals.
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner with access to advice and support from senior colleagues.
To participate in evidence-based audit and research projects.
To provide advice and education to the public and other healthcare professionals
They will be able to work as part of the multidisciplinary team with the aim of preventing admission, supporting early discharge and provide ongoing and shared care for patients with continence problems.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To plan, implement and evaluate individualised specialist patient care programmes based on evidence-based practice and the application of clinical reasoning skills.
- To provide supervision to health care professionals in relation to all aspects of managing incontinence.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own work including management of patients in your care.
- To organise the job role effectively with regards to clinical priorities and use of time.
- Act as a patient advocate through the application of critical and professional knowledge and skills.
- The post holder will require a high degree of communication skills in communicating highly sensitive information regarding individual’s medical conditions.
- To ensure effective communication with the wider community and Healthcare professionals, to persuade change, influence and improve practice.
- Empathy, reassurance and negotiating skills are required to encourage patient compliance to treatment/management strategies, where there may be significant barriers to understanding in some patient groups e.g. learning disabilities, mental health.
- Provide advice to palliative care services in the management of incontinence as appropriate.
- Ensure personal clinical skills are regularly updated as required by Lead Clinician to a specialist level.
- Participate in research and clinical trials in accordance with Clinical Governance and Trust policy.
- Involvement of the service user, carers and other professional including clinical management plans where required.
*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered nurse
- • Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- • Willing to undertake BSc Nursing
- • Wiling to undertake Continence Modules
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Level of experience of tissue viability/Continence within the present job
- • Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of participating to audit
- • Development of clinical guidelines
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- • Excellent verbal skills with awareness of the need for confidentiality at all times
- • Good record keeping skill
- • Ability to use tact, diplomacy, persuasion in implementing change
- • Skilled in teaching trained an untrained staff, carers and patients
- • Effectively prioritises and coordinates own work
- • Can demonstrate leadership skills and initiative
- • Ability to deal with those with life limiting conditions
- • Motivated to work collaboratively and enthusiastically as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- • Ability to remain calm and work effectively in pressure situations
- • Able to be courteous at all times and to respect individuals’ dignity, integrity, cultural and religious beliefs
Desirable criteria
- • Standard keyboard skills and competent with various IT packages, Word, Outlook, Excel
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jackie Robinson
- Job title
- Bladder and Bowel Service Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07564 044644
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