Children's Continence Nurse Advisor | Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 Per Year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2024 |
| Location: | Bedford, MK42 7PN |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Tr |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6262987/448-BCHS-6262987 |
Summary
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? Are you keen to be part of a team of professionals who are motivated to provide the highest quality care? This could be the exciting opportunity you have been waiting for!
We have a Band 6 position available to work within the Bedfordshire Children's Community Integrated Continence Service including responsibilities for the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provision within the service.
You would be supporting children, young people (CYP) and their families with toileting and product provision across Bedfordshire. You would be working alongside dynamic team members within the continence and wider community nursing teams. If you share our passion for community support, enabling child and young people to reach their full potential and have experience of working with and supporting SEND we want to hear from you.
Experience of community working would be an advantage as well as experience, knowledge and understanding of working alongside other agencies and professionals including education, health and social care and the voluntary sector.
A new exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well established community continence nursing team. You will be well supported by the Continence Specialist Nurses within the team to deliver community care.
• To be responsible for assessing the needs of individuals in the community and school settings who are experiencing bladder and or bowel dysfunction.
• To provide individualised support to children, young people, and their families with/without SEND to promote continence and guide toileting.
• To plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care and provide individualised advice to patients, families carers and healthcare professionals supporting toileting.
• To plan, implement and evaluate training programmes for staff, inclusive of education, social services, and health to promote continence.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
To provide individualised evidence based clinical assessment, review, and advice (in keeping with NICE guidance and local guidelines), offering treatment options and aged appropriate care to optimise continence for children and young people with/without Special Educational Needs and Disability.
To undertake holistic assessment in relation to continence, including requesting information such as bladder and bowel diaries from families and carers.
Support toileting workshops, devise and supply individualised toileting advice and care plans.
To give clinical advice and support to parents, carers, and education staff to help them understand childhood continence conditions to support their child/young person with advised treatments (such as managing disimpaction regimens and referring back to the prescriber if needed)
Be responsible for ensuring timely continence assessment and completion of reports / information requests to support Child in Need / Child Protection meetings and Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP) procedures.
To facilitate / participate in the programme of education to support with the promotion of early identification, treatment, and management of childhood continence issues.
To give clinical advice and support to parents, carers and education staff to help them understand childhood continence conditions to support their child/young person.
This advert closes on Monday 3 Jun 2024
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