Bladder and Bowel Team Lead | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 March 2026 |
| Location: | southport, PR8 6LP |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7791667/350-CC7791667 |
Summary
12 month fixed term/ Internal applicants will be offered secondment
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Bladder and Bowel Team Leaderto join theBladder and Bowel Service, providing strong operational leadership and day‑to‑day support to staff.
The post holder will provide visible, compassionate leadership, consistently role‑modellingMersey Care valuesand fostering a positive, inclusive, and high‑performing team culture. This role plays a key part in ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of bladder and bowel services.
While previous experience or knowledge of bladder and bowel care would be advantageous, it isnot essential. The primary focus of the role is on delivering effective operational leadership, supporting clinical colleagues, and maintaining high standards of service delivery.
Training and development will be providedto support the successful candidate in developing the relevant clinical knowledge, understanding, and confidence required for the role.
An exciting opportunity for either a secondment/ fixed term opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Bladder and Bowel Team Lead within the Sefton Diabetes Service, for a period of 12 months.
The successful candidate will work across Sefton, providing leadership and oversight to services delivering care to patients in Southport, Formby, and South Sefton.
This role requires proven leadership and management experience. The post holder will be expected to demonstrate strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills, with the ability to take initiative and work autonomously to effectively guide, support, and develop the team, while ensuring high‑quality patient care.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to gain further leadership experience, contribute to service improvement, and support the continued development of the Sefton Bladder and Bowel Service.
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.
. To promote the attainment and maintenance of optimum health of patients who have long term conditions and acute disease management through predictive and proactive case management of an identified caseload of patients.
To formulate care plans that address the expressed health, social and cultural needs of the patient as an individual through working in partnership with the patient, the GP, specialist nurses and other stakeholder providers
To promote patient centred care by integrating and co-ordinating the activities of the patient, relatives and carers, the individual practitioners, and teams in the provision of an efficacious management strategy for managing an individual’s long-term condition
To ensure that appropriate information regarding the condition of the patient is known to the GP and other appropriate stakeholder providers, by the development and maintenance of effective systems of inter-agency, inter-disciplinary communications
In liaison with Integrated Community Nursing Teams, Social Services and GPs, provide clinical leadership to nursing teams to enable them to develop approaches that address the needs of patients with complex long-term conditions and acute disease.
Support pathways for smooth transition between primary, secondary, and tertiary care for patients, particularly those who are newly diagnosed or whose symptoms are poorly controlled, by liaison with specialists within primary and secondary care. Making direct
referral of patients for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures using the care pathways approach.
Inform the development of policies and procedures relevant to the care of people with long term conditions and acute diseases by co-operating and assisting in research programmes relating to the client group. Valuing the contributions that users of the service can make in reshaping services by developing systems and processes that engage those users meaningfully to ensure services are designed to meet expressed need.
Ensure services are delivered and sustained in line with NICE guidelines/local targets and understand principles of disease management by leading, motivating, educating, and developing colleagues and others.
Promote admission avoidance and early discharge by effective liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Feb 2026