Job summary
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare is seeking two Bladder and Bowel Nurses to join our specialist team. We have opportunities within our Mid and North Hampshire Bladder and Bowel Teams. Successful candidates will become part of both their local multidisciplinary community team, which forms an integral part of the Hampshire wide Community Bladder and Bowel Service.
We are looking for candidates who either hold additional qualifications in continence care or who have a strong interest in developing their skills in this field. Training and upskilling will be provided as part of the role.
As a Bladder and Bowel Nurse, you will provide holistic support to patients across a variety of settings, including clinics, patients homes, and care homes. The primary aim of the service is to understand each patient's individual needs through specialist assessment and then to develop a conservative treatment and management plan that will support and promote their independence.
You will also work closely with and support the development of unregistered and junior staff within the service. You will also be required to work closely and collaboratively with other relevant clinicians and services across the local healthcare system to promote both seamless pathways and joined up care for our patients.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist holistic assessment of patients who are referred into the service with bladder and bowel symptoms.
To work with patients to develop conservative treatment and management plans that meet their needs.
To support with triage of referrals coming into the service.
To appropriately refer patients on to other services as required.
To work within their locality to build strong relationships with other local healthcare services that may be involved in a patients care.
To support and line manage junior and unregistered members of the team.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse
- (Must be willing to undertake the continence course, which if passed will lead to a specialist post).
Desirable
- Post reg training in continence
Experience
Essential
- Experience and understanding of continence
- Holistic and patient centred approach to care
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Parklands House
London Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 4AP
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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