As a Paediatric Continence Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care and services to support individuals and teams. Working within a collaborative environment, you will provide essential services tailored to meet the unique needs of those we serve.
Based at The Orbital, Swindon, you will have the flexibility to work within a model that supports both on-site and hybrid working arrangements, depending on the nature of the role. HCRG Care Group is committed to fostering an agile and adaptable workforce to best meet the needs of our organization and service users.
Main Responsibility
1. Support the Continence Team Lead with service management, development and team leadership and organisation.
2. Working with the lead clinician to develop service standards and guidelines, literature and patient information leaflets.
3. Organise, direct and complete aspects of service evaluation and development such as audit and service feedback.
4. Actively seek personal and professional development and maintain and develop knowledge and clinical skills to meet personal and professional objectives. Participate in staff development providing in-service training.
5. Maintain and develop and share knowledge base including Nice, RCN, Occupational Standards and Marsden manual guidance.
6. To be able to confidently work alone including remote working and managing clinics without supervision.
7. Liaise with suppliers and meet company representatives as a means of updating on latest products and developments to provide expert resource to others.
8. Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives and professionals across health and social services.
9. Be actively involved with managing the absorbent product service prescribing within guidelines to support budget management.
10. To be aware of the principles of safeguarding as they apply to vulnerable adults and children in relation to the worker’s role, which will include recognising the types and signs of abuse and neglect and ensuring that the worker’s line manager is made aware and kept fully informed of any concerns which the worker may have in relation to safeguarding adults.
11. To maintain competencies in continence assessment, the evidence-based safe use of medical devices and be aware of professional accountability.
12. Develop and provide specialist clinical advice, teaching and joint visits to primary and secondary health care teams, independent health care organisations, other health professionals, patient/carers and relatives who seek advice on the management of people with continence needs.
13. Perform comprehensive assessment of patient needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health needs.
14. Perform advanced evidence-based clinical skills in assessment, diagnosis and treatment, including performing and interpreting complex ultrasound bladder scans; pelvic floor examination; digital rectal examination and urinary catheterisation.
15. Assess and provide care in clinic, patients own home and care home environment for assessments and catheter clinic.
16. Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient documentation.
17. To ensure that all equipment used is maintained and fit for purpose including responsibility for the safe use of equipment such as bladder scanners.
18. The role may involve working outside core hours to provide clinic appointments and support community nurses at weekends.
The Ideal Candidate
1. Registered nurse.
2. Education related to assessment, treatment and management of bladder and bowel dysfunction.
3. Gynaecology/Urology/Community experience.
4. Teaching and mentoring qualification and experience of teaching professionals, colleagues and patients/carers.
5. Evidence of ongoing professional development.
6. Experience of continence assessment and treatments.
7. Experience of continence management options including application of absorbent pad products and catheterisation.
8. Significant experience of infection prevention and control.
9. Experience of physical examinations such as rectal examinations.
10. Experience of teaching.
11. Experience of mentoring.
12. Significant experience of decision making.
13. Some experience of leadership skills and knowledge.
14. Significant skills for planning and organisation own caseload and supporting non-registered colleagues.
15. Significant skills of working collaboratively and autonomously.
16. Significant skill of working proactively.
17. Significant evidence of excellent team working.
18. Some experience of managing a patient caseload.
19. Some experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment.
20. A good standard of written and spoken English is required to be able to undertake the relevant duties.
21. Knowledge of national continence guidelines facilitating a continence assessment.
22. Knowledge of completing a continence assessment identifying a bladder and or bowel dysfunction.
Package Description
As a Paediatric Continence Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in Swindon.
You will feel valued as a Paediatric Continence Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* Salary of £29,970 - £36,483 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
* Free tea and coffee at your base location.
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
* Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
* An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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* Salary £29,970 - £36,483 + AFC terms and NHS Pension
* Frequency Annual
* Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/111228/14774
* Contract Type Permanent - Full Time
* Closing Date 26 April, 2025
* Job Category HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery Registered
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