Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1420
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chalkhill Primary Care Centre
- Town
- Wembley
- Salary
- £21.88 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 25/06/2025 14:00
Employer heading
Bank Bladder and Bowel Continence Nurse ONW
NHS AfC: Band 6
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 14 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, Kingston - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job overview
Job Purpose
To work as part of the Children’s Community Nursing Team, providing children’s bladder and bowel nursing care primarily within a child’s home, school and nursery, and clinics ensuring the delivery of evidenced based care to children and their families or carers. The Brent Children’s Continence Service will run clinics 9-5pm, Mon – Saturday.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for:
· To participate in the assessment, planning and provision of skilled nursing care in negotiation with the child and family
· Identifying, understanding and feeling confident to promote good bladder and bowel health for children
· To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with bladder and bowel care needs
· To work in a collaborative manner with other agencies to ensure a seamless delivery of care to families.
· To provide information and support to facilitate the child’s and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care around the management of bladder and bowel issues
Working for our organisation
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
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stay well
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manage their own health with the right support
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avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To lead the enhanced Tier 1 bladder and Bowel toileting advisory and drop in service
· To run T2 bladder and bowel clinics, complete assessments, ordering of products and make recommendations
· To train local staff to offer better assessment, evidenced based advice to GP practice/ school nurse and health visiting services.
· Provide knowledge of continence milestones, general advice on toilet training and bladder and bowel health, such as information on fluid intake, dietary advice and the importance of regular toileting.
· To operate the drop in service by appointment only to ensure that we manage the number of service users attending to keep everyone as safe as possible.
· The continence nurse to be able to answer questions and discuss any concerns including day and nighttime wetting; constipation and soiling and to give advice and sign posting.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Current NMC Registration for children’s nursing
- Evidence of post registration study / learning over the past two years.
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
Desirable criteria
- Teaching Qualification
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health visitor/School nurse)
- Nurse Prescribing V300
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience of at least 1 year of working as a registered children’s nurse in a community nursing role
- Experience of working with children who have bladder and bowel issues
- Recent experience within as acute/community setting
- Evidence of involvement in the management of difficult situations and conflict resolution
- Evidence of working without direct supervision and managing own workload
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of working without direct supervision and managing own workload
- Experience of managing staff within a team
- Managing a safeguarding caseload
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to support people to make informed decisions in relation to their health and well-being.
- Demonstrate ability to adapt to working within a changing environment.
- Evidence of supporting equality and valuing diversity in own practice
- Evidence of current clinical competencies relevant to community nursing.
- Empowering and working in partnership
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of assessment of health needs of the local population
- Background knowledge of current policy relating to public health and primary care
- Awareness of health needs of children and young people
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Academic ability to study independently at degree or postgraduate level.
- Numeracy and Literacy skills
- Able to willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health professionals
Desirable criteria
- Car Driver
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
- Shanelle Green
- Job title
- Bank Recruitment Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02039378322
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