Are you looking for the next steps in your nursing career?
Are you passionate about making a difference to patients' lives?
If 'yes' then there couldn't be a more exciting time to join us!
Here at our Continence service no day is ever the same. As a well established Community Service, we care for patients with complex needs providing highly skilled assessments and support within their own home environment and in a clinic setting.
The role will involve working within a team of experienced Community Continence Nurses and working in partnership with multiple stakeholders and voluntary services to provide the best care to our community and shape the future of healthcare across Milton Keynes.
We are looking for nurses who can think on their feet and thrive on the challenges the working day can bring. You will be joining our team of highly motivated proactive professionals to continue our goal of developing our service beyond the traditional scope in response to the challenging health care needs that we are facing nationally.
The hours are 9am - 5pm, 5 days a week. Driving licence and use of a car is essential.
Main duties of the job
In return we can offer:
* flexible working
* Buy & Sell Annual Leave
* an attractive pension scheme (including a tax-free lump sum on retirement and family benefits for dependants ill health retirement benefits and life assurance cover of twice your annual pay).
* Employee Assistance programme: a free and confidential service to help with personal life
* Staying Well at Work service for tailored employment related support to staff with severe and long term mental health problems
* Physio Med: an education zone, advice line and treatment service for staff
* Staff Wellbeing Zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes
* The Recovery College: offers a range of health and wellbeing courses for staff
* A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) Network, Disabled Employees Network
* Lived Experience of Mental Health Staff Network
* Carers at Work Network
* Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BME)
* Discounts and savings at hundreds of retailers nationwide with My Trust Benefits.
* Salary sacrifice
About us
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
* The service sees adults with bladder and or bowel dysfunction with or without incontinence. The post holder will take a key role in the delivery of the service including assessment, development of individualised treatment plans, give advice to patients, carers, healthcare workers and care home staff, both in clinic settings and at domiciliary visits.
* Takes responsibility of new visits/assessments, workload management and allocation, dealing with referrals.
* Maintains close liaison with the District Nursing teams, GP and other members of the primary care team and wider health and social care.
* Applies current Infection Control Policy issues and universal precautions.
* Encourages patients towards self care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Level 1 Registered NMC Nurse
Desirable
* Evidence of other professional training, eg. ENB 998
* Evidence of additional continence training
Experience
Essential
* Evidence of a wide range of clinical experience
Desirable
* Post registration experience
* Experience as Community RGN
Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge and understanding of current community nursing issues
* Sound clinical knowledge relative to experience gained
* NMC Code of Conduct
* Basic infection control issues and procedures
Desirable
* Continence experience
Key skills
Essential
* Sound practical skills.
* Ability to work unsupervised.
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Ability to teach others, eg. staff, patients
* IT skills
Others
Essential
* Full driving licence and use of car for work purposes
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Hawthorn Clinic, Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes
MK3 6EN
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