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Job summary

Main area
Continence Service.
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
453-24-6369760
Employer
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Idle Medical Centre
Town
Bradford
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 Per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Continence Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.

As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.

Job overview

A great opportunity has arisen to work as a band 6 Community Continence Nurse within Bradford District Care Foundation Trusts Continence Service.  We are a well-established team delivering expert care to individuals with bladder and bowel problems across the primary care setting and care homes. We are also responsible for delivering education across the community nursing teams on continence care (bladder/bowel and catheterisation).  The mechanism for this delivery is varied and responds to ever changing needs. We pride ourselves on our multidisciplinary approach to patient care and are very proud of the service that we deliver.

We are looking for a motivated, dynamic, forward thinking nurse with a passion for improving the delivery of continence care in the Bradford, Airedale, and Craven area.

You will be responsible for undertaking complex continence assessments and providing a structured management plan and auditing outcomes.  You will provide support for community staff and service users with line management responsibilities in supporting junior staff within the service. You will have good communication skills and be confident in teaching.  You will also have the enthusiasm for service improvement and work collaboratively in achieving continence service objectives.

If you are keen to learn new skills and advance your practice and knowledge in this speciality, we would love to hear from you. 

Main duties of the job

  • To work as a senior member of the Continence service
  • To provide a high standard of care that is research/evidence based
  • To provide support, advice and education on complex bladder and bowel conditions to health and social care professionals, service users, independent organisations and other agencies across the designated health economy
  • Contribute to the ongoing development of the service

Working for our organisation

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

 

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more information about this role

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered nurse
  • Educated to degree level

Training

Essential criteria
  • Commitment to undertake relevant training/education to meet the requirements of the role

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of 2 years, current experience working in an environment dealing with continence care or urology
  • Experience of team leadership / management
  • Ability to deliver training informally and formally
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of community nursing

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Up to date, demonstrable experience and knowledge of e.g. bladder and bowel conditions and care management.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to plan and prioritise workload, use own initiative and work creatively
  • Standard IT skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveImproving working livesDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - SilverCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Stacey Knowles
Job title
Team Leader
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07739627758
Additional information

Continence Service 01274 221167.

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