Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing/Bladder and Bowel
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 813-200-0224-LB-C
- Employer
- Medway Community Healthcare CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ambley Green
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum (dependent on NHS experience)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community bladder and bowel nurse advisor
Band 6
Do you want to be part of an award winning and dynamic social enterprise that:
- is renowned for providing high quality care and is ranked ‘Good’ by the CQC;
- is a for-better-profit organisation, reinvesting any surplus back into our health and care services and our local community;
- is friendly, ambitious, welcomes innovation and rewards excellence;
- offers superior benefits; everything you get in the NHS and more;
- and whose achievements reflect the passion, dedication and commitment demonstrated by our staff across all services?
Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, community interest company that benefits the communities we serve. So if you want be a part of this, we would love to hear from you.
Job overview
- Are you a first level registered nurse?
- Are you an autonomous practitioner, spealislising in bladder and bowel care management?
If so, then we have the perfect job for you!
Main duties of the job
To work as an autonomous practitioner within the Bladder and Bowel team, working in partnership with community nursing.
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of individual patients and the local population with bladder and bowel dysfunction.
To line manage the Bladder and Bowel team with support from the appropriate clinical nurse manager, including responsibility for practice development and clinical governance.
The community nursing service provides nursing care over a 24-hour period, 365 days/year so may require occasional training and supervision outside of office hours depending upon the service needs.
Working for our organisation
So what else?
- This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you’ll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
- We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
- We’ll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
- You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
The small print
- Informal visits can be arranged on request.
- We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
- MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.
At this time, MCH cannot fund or support any further nurses who require the OSCE training. Please do not apply if you require this training.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The community Bladder and Bowel nurse advisor has the following key elements in their role:
- An advisor for patients, residents and staff within the locality / MCH, including: Darland House, Wisdom Hospice & Harmony House with regard to bladder and bowel care.
- A professional responsibility in promoting a positive image of bladder and bowel
- Responsible for providing continence assessments, treatment and advice in the patient’s own home, residential homes and clinics to enable effective care of patients with bladder and bowel dysfunction, liaising with other health and social care professionals when necessary.
- As an autonomous practitioner provide specialised care by initiating, interpreting and acting upon information from holistic assessment, bladder and bowel diaries, symptom profiles, portable ultrasound, digital rectal examination, vaginal examination and urinalysis in the assessment of complex
- Provide an educational role for patients, carers and other health and social care professionals concerning continence
- Offer a range of interventions to include health promotion and prevention
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st level registered nurse
- Evidence of further study in bladder and bowel/continence care
- At least 2 years post qualification experience
- Evidence of appropriate clinical/professional competence and on-going professional development, in particular continence care.
Desirable criteria
- Community nursing experience/or degree in community pathway.
- Nurse prescriber or willingness to undertake training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working in the community and acute
- Working in a team
- Able to work under own initiative
- Bladder and bowel care management
- Teaching and mentoring skills
Desirable criteria
- Team management
- Change management
MCH values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates behaviours in line with all three MCH values
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Rowena Woods
- Job title
- Bladder and Bowel Clinical Nurse Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634 382277
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
MCH House
Bailey Drive
Gillingham Business Park
Gillingham
ME8 0PZ
- Telephone
- 07796182085
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