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KEY DUTIES

• Post holder to work flexibly across the Children’s Paediatric Continence service, delivering high quality, evidence-based bladder and bowel care for children and young people preventing hospital admission and facilitating early discharge from hospital.
• Develop and use knowledge and skills in order that professional development, bladder and bowel competencies can be maintained and keep professional portfolio up to date.
• To manage own caseload including complex patients with long term or life limiting conditions or illnesses
• Draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources in their practice.
• To support the Team Leader and Nurse Specialist in the effective daily management of the patient care.
• Support with training and packages of care to meet the needs of the child.
• Ensure effective line management of staff.
• To accept responsibility for own professional practice as a reflective, accountable clinical practitioner

CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain Professional Registration and adhere to relevant Code of Practice of Professional body.
• Perform clinical skills in assessment, diagnosis and management, treatment of treatment.
• Performing and interpret complex skills in; urinalysis, bladder and bowel charting/interpretation, ultrasound bladder scanning and result consideration once competent.
• Perform more complex and difficult skills of performing and translating uroflowmetry results with support.
• Provide professional advice/ support / supervision / direction to junior members of the team.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and cares/relatives and professionals across health and social care services.
• Provide specialist clinical knowledge to primary health care teams and other health professionals, parents/carers and relatives seeking advice on the management of the child with continence issues and management.
• Provide specialist clinical knowledge and skills to deliver high quality evidence based care to patients with bladder and bowel dysfunction.
• Provide a package of care around the child to meet their varying needs in relation to bladder and bowel management acting and advising appropriately to ensure they are supported within the community setting.
• Provide accurate and regular reviews of the child’s physical, emotional and spiritual needs and on the progress of their condition/diagnosis.
• Deliver high quality care and training, by ensuring both clinical practice and all verbal and written information is evidence based.
• Liaise directly with health professionals in primary care and act as an advocate for patients to ensure they are given the optimum opportunity to explore the continence care options available to suit their individual needs.
• Escalate concerns in relation to management plans / treatment / safeguarding / social issues to ensure the child safety is paramount in accordance with legislation.
• Actively participate within Audit and Paediatric Benchmarking
• Ensure knowledge, skills and competency are updated and maintained through appropriate CPD, training and development opportunities to enable effective care to be delivered in line with current research-based evidence and practice.
• Ensure that verbal communications and written documentation are maintained and are clear, relevant and concise, in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) Standards of Records and Record Keeping and Trust policy.

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous and accurate clinical records recording all patient related activity on clinical systems as directed by NMC code of conduct, legal obligation and local and national policies.
• Keep patient records up to date on a regular basis and update IT systems as necessary to ensure records and information are accurate and concise.
• Complete KPIs ensuring KPIS are met by the team and report back to the service manager.
• Complete appropriate written or typed referrals to other service where a need is identified to meet the needs of the patient holistically.
• Complete and submit safeguarding reports as requested.
• Complete and contribute to any necessary a reports and quality assure those of other staff as required for submission to the Special Educational Needs panel.

TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES

• Embrace training opportunities provided by others formally or informally in order to improve practice and patient care outcomes.
• Participate in education programmes, seminars and in-service training days.
• Develop effective education programmes to ensure children, families and carers are fully informed about the health needs of the child and competent in their care.
• Act as a mentor to new staff members and students ensuring their individual learning needs are identified and programmes implemented to meet those needs.
• Be responsible for identifying your own training and developmental needs ensuring they are met.
• Keep up to date with and critically appraise current research and evidence-based care as well as contemporary issues relating to the development of children’s services.
• Facilitate the acquisition of new skills and knowledge in order to meet the needs of individual children, service needs and statutory requirements.

LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Represent the children’s nursing service in the absence of the Nurse specialist.
• Support the clinical leadership of junior staff members including, supervision, annual       appraisal, setting individual performance plans and training.
• Organise clinics on a monthly basis and in the absence of a member of staff.

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES

To be competent at safeguarding children and implementing the Child in Need and Child Protection procedures as appropriate includes the following skills, competencies and knowledge:-

• Be able to recognise child abuse.
• Be able to document accurately child protection concerns according to Laming recommendations, differentiating fact from opinion.
• Know who to contact / inform / seek advice from; know how to contact them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, know when to contact them according to Trust and Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards policies and procedures.
• Have understanding of own (and others’) professional roles and boundaries, including the Named professionals, trust managers and social workers.
• Knowledge of the implications of key national document/reports.
• Understand multi-agency frameworks, investigations, working and child protection assessment processes including the use of the Common Assessment Framework / investigation/working.
• Be able to present child protection concerns in a child protection conference with support.
• Demonstrate ability to work with families where there are child protection concerns
• Be able to advise other agencies regarding the health management of child protection concerns.
• Ability to contribute to serious case reviews or individual management reviews.
• Understand child protection investigation and the basics of forensic procedures.
• Aware of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and it’s remit.