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.
Support and promote continence education to carers and nursing staff in care homes and monitor and authorise continence products.
Contribute to continence product budget, monitoring of spend and authorisation of continence products
Contribute to staff and patients’ education and a culture focused on continence promotion and self-care.
Demonstrate highly developed clinical nursing skills and act as clinical advisor and educator to junior staff and have overall responsibility for clinical care in a designated area.
Accept complex referrals from community nursing team leaders in the designated area which are outside the competency of the team, or which may impact on the capacity of the team to deliver care to other patients.
• To be responsible for providing practical teaching support across the caseloads to improve staff’s clinical competency and support community nursing team leaders to ensure team members, pre and post registration students are knowledgeable about continence promotion
• Conduct regular caseload profiling and contribute to community health needs assessment, agreeing health improvement priorities and the specific contribution of the community nursing service in collaboration with GP practices, caseload nursing and AHP managers. Set and monitor objectives and targets for team activities with team members.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management, quality and risk and performance of the continence service delivery.
• To support the CTL, Head of Nursing in delivering high quality care that delivers best value, and to monitor and evaluate the quality-of-care provision, identify and promote areas for service development in accordance with trust, service and team requirements.
• To work within and across professional and organisational boundaries, liaising with GP’s other professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies to deliver integrated, individualised and expert nursing care to a high standard to client, and leading communication with all stakeholders to avoid admission to hospital and to facilitate safe early discharge from hospital.
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We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
· To work autonomously as a specialist practitioner within a locality to assess, diagnose, including differential diagnosis, to manage and agree a care plan in partnership with the patient through clinical reasoning, taking into account the risks that are associated with working in a community setting. The role focuses on patients in the community and in Nursing and Residential homes requiring continence advice and advice for correct products according to their needs
· Undertake specialist continence assessments and re-assessments of patients affected by bladder and/or bowel conditions in line with national and local guidelines, policies, procedures and pathways.
· Interpret bladder and bowel charts accurately to identify patient problems and implement effective treatment.
· Undertake diagnostics tests such as bladder volume, ultrasonic residual urine evaluation and urinalysis
· Undertake nursing procedures such as digital rectal examination, vaginal examination and catheterisation.
· 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