Bank Community Continence Nurse - Merton SW Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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Job Purpose:
Contribute to the control of incontinence products and prescribing expenditure by providing evidence-based continence promotion and effective communication within and outside the team.
1. Support and promote continence education to carers and nursing staff in care homes and monitor and authorise continence products.
2. Contribute to continence product budget, monitoring of spend and authorisation of continence products.
3. Contribute to staff and patients education and a culture focused on continence promotion and self-care.
4. Demonstrate highly developed clinical nursing skills and act as clinical advisor and educator to junior staff.
5. Accept complex referrals from community nursing team leaders in the designated area.
6. Provide practical teaching support across caseloads to improve staff clinical competency.
7. Conduct regular caseload profiling and contribute to community health needs assessment.
8. Responsible for the day-to-day management, quality and risk and performance of the continence service delivery.
9. Support the CTL, Head of Nursing in delivering high quality care that delivers best value.
10. Work within and across professional and organisational boundaries.
11. To work autonomously as a specialist practitioner within a locality.
12. Undertake specialist continence assessments and re-assessments of patients.
13. Interpret bladder and bowel charts accurately to identify patient problems.
14. Undertake diagnostics tests and nursing procedures.
Responsibilities:
Specialist Nurses have advisory, clinical caseload and teaching responsibilities on an equal basis in order to fulfil the role. This includes:
Provision of expert advisory and consultative services to health care professionals across the community and primary and secondary care settings.
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Mar 2025.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Finance and Sales
Industries
Hospitals
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