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CRH offers a wide range of exciting and rewarding opportunities for people who are passionate about providing exceptional patient care. With more than 350 different careers on offer, there is a job for you no matter what your interests, skills, or qualifications.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the North Derbyshire Children’s Community Continence Service for three days a week (22.5hrs). We are a small friendly team which is the lead provider for the Countywide Continence Service who supports children and young people aged 4-19 years in the community to achieve their continence potential.
We are looking for a Children’s Community Continence Nurse to support and make a difference to children and young people’s incontinence needs. The successful candidate will be a registered nurse who has a passion for continence and working in the community with children and young people and their families. An important element of the role is to independently undertake continence clinics across North Derbyshire. Applicants need to possess excellent interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills and work independently and as part of a team.
Full training and supervision from Specialist Nurses will be provided, although a background in continence would be advantageous.
Main duties of the job
The main emphasis of this role is to provide specialist clinical practice within a defined clinical area/caseload. This will involve working independently with support/guidance from a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) as required.
Duties will include, for example, provision of specialist knowledge and key experience in the care and management of children and young people with continence care needs, and working collaboratively with all agencies to promote health, education, and well-being of children with continence care needs.
Working for our organisation
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well-performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak, and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated “Good” by the CQC.
We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long-term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high-quality services and excellent patient care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* 1st level Registered Nurse
* Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience in related work area
* Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching, and assessing of students
* Advanced communication course
* Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
* Leadership training/qualification/experience
* Non-medical prescribing
Experience
* Significant, relevant (post registration) experience with two years or more in specialty area
* Ability to conduct Nurse led clinics
* Facilitate and support learning
* Awareness of Quality Assurance/peer review process
* Management of leadership experience
* Evidence of leading a change project
* Experience of Quality Assurance/peer review process
Skills and Knowledge
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Audit experience and subsequent quality improvement
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Sound IT skills
* Awareness of local and national guidelines
* Evidence of developing clinical skills
* Advanced communication course
* Deputising for senior Sister/Charge Nurse/Clinical Nurse Specialist
* Research experience
* Leadership course
Personal Attributes
* Able to use own initiative and work autonomously
* Positive attitude, self-motivated
* Able to manage and organise own workload with conflicting priorities
* Able to work under pressure
* Recognise own limitations
* Work effectively with the MDT
* Proactive in the continued development of the service
* Adaptable to meet service needs
* Full driving licence or alternative
Demonstrates Trust Values
* Demonstrates Proud to CARE (Compassion, Achievement, Relationships, Environment)
Flexible Working
If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Communications
Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.
If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.
This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield, there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Clare Faulkner Job title: Acting Senior Matron, Community Services Email address: Clare.Faulkner4@nhs.net Telephone number: 01246 513837
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