Clinical Nurse Specialist - Continence Advisory Service
Band 7
Main area: Continence Advisory Service
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (0900-1700 Monday to Friday)
Job ref: 196-NM12753
Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: GSTT Community Continence Advisory Service
Town: London
Salary: £54,320 - £60,981 p.a Inc HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 30/04/2025
The continence advisory service works across Lambeth and Southwark to provide a high-quality comprehensive health service for patients with bowel and bladder continence problems. The specialist nurse-led service offers clinical interventions, support, and advice for patients with bladder and bowel problems via hospital-based clinics, community-based clinics, and home (care homes) visits. Working closely with colleagues at the Guys and St Thomas hospital sites and community-based teams, the service is in a period of transformation and looking to explore new models of service delivery and dynamic approaches to promoting continence. This post will suit an enterprising nurse with the knowledge, skills, and compassion aligned with achieving continence for our patients. The post holder will be instrumental in developing new and innovative ways of delivering our service.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will offer a high-quality nurse-led continence advice clinic, based in the community and/or the hospital, delivering either face-to-face, video, or telephone consultations, providing expertise in a range of bladder and bowel problems. The post holder will primarily be based in the Continence Advisory Service across Lambeth & Southwark but will potentially also cover and work in the in-hospital services. The service also offers an in-reach service to Care Homes.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
1. To work autonomously, managing a caseload of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the wider team, delivering individualized and personalized direct patient care.
2. Be responsible for assessing and recognizing emergencies in the specialty. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same.
3. Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient-oriented approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
* Registered General Nurse (RN)
* NMC Registration
* Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient-focused care or proven evidence of management/leadership skills and autonomous practice.
* Experience of audit, research, and evidence-based practice.
Knowledge, Skills, and Ability
* Advanced clinical, managerial, and leadership skills in specialty.
* Demonstrate an understanding of the National agenda for specialty.
* Ability to carry out audit and research.
* Undertaken clinical & nursing research.
Qualifications
* Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience, and short courses to Master's level equivalent.
* Post-registration qualification in appropriate area of specialty or equivalent post-qualification experience.
* Mentorship/teaching course.
* Leadership course.
* To have or working towards a master’s degree.
* To have or working towards a non-medical physical assessment course.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects, and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures, and practices to ensure that all employees, patients, and carers are treated equitably according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual’s personal circumstances as well as the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the onboarding process.
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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.
Our dedicated and talented staff make it their mission to provide outstanding care for our patients.
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