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An exciting opportunity has arisen to be at the forefront of our continued transformation journey within our Children's Community and Specialist Services here at LTHTR.
Our Children's Bladder and Bowel Service provides expert nursing assessment and interventions to prevent and manage incontinence 🩺, as well as support children and young people with chronic continence conditions across Greater Preston, Chorley, and South Ribble.
The team is based at Broadoaks Child Development Centre, our main Community site for Paediatric Services. This naturally provides great networking opportunities to collaborate with other teams based here.
As the Community Health Care Assistant for our Children’s Bladder and Bowel Service, you will be working within the team, supporting children who require assessment, care planning, and intervention following referral into the service.
This is a rare opportunity to be integral within a nurse-led service where you can make a real difference and have a meaningful impact on how specialised care is delivered closer to home.
You will have the opportunity to utilise your skill set by applying your skills in motivating children, their parents and support staff when empowering and engaging them in their assessment and toilet training program.
You will be instrumental within the service's triaging process and have a real steer on independently developing, implementing and evaluating individualised structured toileting programs and initiate care plans using evidence based advice and information, for children who have been referred for problematic toilet training.
You will also have the opportunity to continue to develop your own and other's development through working collaborate with colleagues from other professional groups in order to provide holistic package of care for children with complex and neurodiversity needs.
In doing this, you will need to prioritise and manage own workload, seeking advice and support from colleagues, where required to do so.
Please refer to the main job description for further details re expectations and opportunities to develop whilst in this role.