Job Overview
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? Are you keen to be part of a team of professionals who are motivated to provide the highest quality care? An exciting new role has been commissioned to develop a Children's Containment Products Service in the Dudley locality. The successful nurse will help to shape the service by identifying children at a young age who need additional support with their continence needs.
Main Duties of the Job
* Assessing and reviewing children who require containment products where their long-term conditions may prevent full continence from being achieved.
* Reviewing children that already receive products in order to evidence a medical need for usage and offer continence advice where appropriate.
* Offering support and guidance to health professionals and school staff in the form of training or group work.
Working for Our Organisation
The service will sit under the Children's Continence Team, where the successful applicant will receive both clinical and managerial supervision.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
* Support children and their families where it is anticipated there may be difficulties in toilet training (from 4 years).
* Offer a comprehensive containment products assessment with planned review dates.
* Support families already accessing products to review their needs.
* Support and train other health professionals in promoting continence needs for children and young people.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
* Registered Nurse.
* Demonstrates experience for assessing, developing, implementing/reviewing specialist continence care programmes including both bladder and bowel care.
* Experience of implementing education and training programmes for a defined age group, carers, and relevant community staff.
* Special knowledge in management of bladder and bowel conditions.
* Ability to apply relevant research to ensure evidence-based practice.
* Effective written and oral communication skills.
* Ability to use a varied array of skills to devise continence packages for children with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, communication disabilities, complex health care.
* Ability to use PC-based software programmes e.g. email, word.
* Ability to organise own workload and be responsible for managing time and resources effectively.
* Ability to plan and document care on an individual basis.
Desirable Criteria
* Evidence of ongoing professional development.
* Bladder and bowel related qualification.
* Extensive experience working with children.
* Extensive experience working in the community.
* Ability to develop audits/standard setting and develop guidelines/policies.
* Knowledge of children and young peoples division.
* Knowledge of standards, governance systems and clinical audit.
* Sound clinical knowledge of current issues affecting children with urology/gastroenterology conditions.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £33,338.00-£44,936.00 per year
Benefits:
* Additional leave.
* Bereavement leave.
* Canteen.
* Company car.
* Company events.
* Company pension.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Discounted or free food.
* Employee discount.
* Employee mentoring programme.
* Enhanced maternity leave.
* Enhanced paternity leave.
* Free flu jabs.
* Free or subsidised travel.
* Health & wellbeing programme.
* On-site parking.
* Referral programme.
* Relocation assistance.
* Sabbatical.
* Sick pay.
* Store discount.
* Transport links.
* UK visa sponsorship.
Schedule:
* Day shift.
* Flexitime.
* Monday to Friday.
* No weekends.
Ability to Commute/Relocate:
* Brierley Hill, West Midlands: reliably commute or be willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (preferred).
Experience:
* Bowel and bladder conditions: 1 year (preferred).
* Working with children: 1 year (preferred).
* Gastro or urology: 1 year (preferred).
Licence/Certification:
* NMC with active PIN (required).
* Continence experience ideally with children (preferred).
Work Authorisation:
* United Kingdom (required).
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 285-5922-CYPF
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