Childrens Continence Nurse

Job overview

Team Name: Children’s Continence Service

Base: The Ridge Hill Centre

WTE: 28 hours per week

Band: 6

Type: Permanent

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Dudley Children’s Continence Service to support our nurse led team in community clinics. The successful nurse will have experience working with school aged children with bladder and bowel problems involving completing holistic assessments and developing personalised plans.

The service will offer both clinical and managerial supervision in order to support the individual.

If you require more information about the role, please contact Louise Andrews, Continence Lead Nurse or Angela Nunn, Specialist Continence Nurse on 01384 324510 or bchft.continenceteam@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose

• To support the clinical lead in developing a paediatric community continence team in the Dudley locality
• To help children and young people achieve complete continence or to manage the condition discreetly and effectively if full control is clinically not possible.
• To treat children and young people with both bladder and bowel problems.
• Prevent unplanned hospitalisation for constipation and urinary infections.
• Responsible for assessing, developing and implementing specialist continence care programmes in community and clinic settings for children and young people,
• 5-19 years, within Dudley Support with the promotion of continence and management of incontinence with this defined age group
• Develop and implement education and training programmes for defined age group, carers and relevant community staff – School Nurses, Health Visitors, gps

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Responsibility for Patient Care (including monitoring, diagnostics + investigations) 2. To work with children who are slow to acquire faecal and urinary incontinence 3. Have a moderate degree of global delay 4. Have a physical condition which hinders continence 5. Work autonomously within continence clinics without supervision, accountable for own professional actions 6. Have secondary enuresis or encopresis as a behavioural response to emotional difficulties 7. Ensure that all patient records are completed and maintained in line with Trust policy, observing patient confidentiality at all times 8. Provide specialist assessment, support and treatment for children aged 0 -19 years who have more complex continence needs 9. Enhance quality of life for people with long term conditions 10. Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care 11. Understanding of child anatomy and physiology 12. Clear understanding of bowel conditions and faecal impaction 13. Use a varied array of skills to devise continence packages for children with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, communication difficulties, complex health care. 14. Refer children and young people to other specialists and agencies as appropriate 15. Refer to the Continence Lead if any issues require more specialist advice and intervention, thereby maintaining high service standards 16. Deal with patient complaints in a positive and sensitive way in accordance with Trust policy 17. Uphold a professional approach and maintain professional integrity at all times 18. Practice competencies developed, upholding the NMC Code of Professional Conduct 19. Be aware of Dudley Safeguarding/Child Protection policy and requirements 20. Gather information to provide specialist advice to assist child protection investigations 21. To promote a patient focused approach to care in collaboration with all relevant health professionals 22. To act as an advisor to primary health care staff on matters relating to the patient’s management and to provide clinical, professional advice. Promote the development of clinically effective care that is seamless between primary and secondary care settings. 23. Demonstrate and utilise specialist skills and knowledge to provide innovative practice in paediatric continence 24. To support the transition of young people from paediatric to adult care, liaising with the adult Urology and Gastroenterology team and in-reach to adult wards as appropriate, for young people in the process of transition 25. Deal expertly and confidently with distressing and emotional issues in the knowledge that other support services are available to assist To undertake any other duties of a similar nature consistent with the responsibilities of this post in order to provide a quality (insert) service. 26. Act as a role model of excellence in children’s continence care 27. Provide professional advice, support and leadership to colleagues 28. Attend, as appropriate, regional and national events to enable Black Country Partnership to be identified as a service provider of children’s continence best practice 29. Develop and maintain good working relationships with staff supporting the needs of children with disabilities, school nurses, health visitors, occupational therapists and physiotherapists 30. Provide clinical advice in relation to home delivery service enquiries 31. To liaise with continence service (continence products) 32. Work with other services for peer support and good practice 33. Policy and Service Development 34. Support the implementation of an integrated continence strategy in line with Department of Health guidance and National Service Framework for Children 35. Support assessors of children and young people with bowel/bladder problems to be aware of, and comply with, related service guidelines and protocols 36. Contribute to the development of service guidelines and protocols 37. Contribute to service reviews and development work as appropriate to grade in collaboration with the Service manager and clinical lead 38. Ensure that clients’ and service users’ views are central to the development of the service 39. To ensure evidence based service through regular review and updating Trust guidelines in conjunction with the Lead Urology Nurse Specialist 40. Planning and organising 41. Maintain and deliver nurse-led community children’s continence clinics 42. Manage a clinical caseload ensuring effective relationships with other health, education and social care professionals 43. Assume an active role in self-development by undertaking training and updating programmes/courses 44. Maintain awareness of current development in nursing and medical practice by attending lectures, conferences and seminars as appropriate and by reading available literature 45. Attend professional meetings as requested by the Team Leader 46. Analysis and data management 47. Maintain patient records and clinical activity recordings to monitor patient contacts and clinical outcomes 48. Liaise with the service manager to maintain and accurately update information on the disability database regarding the service 49. Develop audit tools to assure quality care is paramount

Applicant requirements

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.