Stoma Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	15 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	14 August 2025
Location:	Southport, PR8 6PL
Company:	Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7331337/350-CC7331337

Summary

We are seeking a compassionate, motivated, and experienced Band 6 Community Stoma Nurse to join our dynamic and supportive community nursing team. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high-quality, person-centred care to patients with stoma needs across the community setting.

You will work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide specialist stoma care, education, and support to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals. The role involves both planned and responsive care, supporting early discharge, preventing hospital admissions, and promoting independence and self-management.

This post is ideal for a nurse with a strong interest in stoma care who is looking to develop their clinical expertise and leadership skills in a community setting.

Provide expert assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care for patients with a stoma.

Deliver specialist advice and support to patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals regarding stoma management and related issues.

Undertake home visits and clinics across the locality, ensuring timely and effective care delivery.

Support patients pre- and post-operatively, including stoma siting, education, and psychological support.

Work collaboratively with acute and community teams to ensure seamless care pathways and effective discharge planning.

Participate in the development and delivery of training and education for staff, patients, and carers.

Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives within the stoma care service.

Maintain accurate and timely clinical records in line with Trust policies and NMC standards.

Act as a clinical resource and role model, supporting junior staff and students.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined specialist nursing caseload.

Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.

Undertake holistic assessments of need for the patient and family, which may be highly complex, using the appropriate model of care and evidence based practice.

Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.

Provide advice to patients, clients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, life style advice and health care.

Ensure that the team provides a high quality clinical service to its clients by participation in caseload and clinical supervision.

In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.

Develop partnerships and joint working within other agencies as appropriate

Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.

Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team.

Support the team leader in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.

Acts as an advocate and champion for patients and/or clients.

Act as a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care possible.

Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.

Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.

Provide information to the team leader on staff and patient/client activity as requested, to enable the effective management of the team.

Support the team leader in the implementation of practice development, improvement and service modernisation initiatives.

Support the team leader by monitoring and recording sickness and absence, capability and other issues within the team, reporting them as soon as possible.

In conjunction with other caseload holders, provide day-to-day supervision and support for the team.

Support the team leader in providing induction to the local working environment, clinical services and policies for new team members and students.

Undertake personal development plans with other members of the team, as delegated by the team leader.

Communicate with the multi-disciplinary team to provide best outcomes for patients/clients; this may include organising case conferences related to highly complex cases.

Participate in individual and group supervision.

Monitor record keeping within the team and inform the team leader of any issues.

This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency. Support the implementation of any initiatives to improve quality within the clinical governance framework.

Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.

Work with the team leader to ensure achievement of your own personal development plan.

Maintain up to date knowledge and competence in line with professional and service requirements and demonstrate critical thinking, decision-making and reflective skills to ensure own professional development.

Support the Team Leader in creating an environment in which learning and practice development is fostered, evaluated and disseminated.
Facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.

Facilitate pre and post registration student placements within the team.
Mentor and assess pre-registration students.

Participation in clinical audits and research, as required.

The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.


This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Jul 2025