Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Children's Community Continence Nurse Specialist.
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Exciting Opportunity in Children's Bladder and Bowel Service
An exciting opportunity has become available within our busy and expanding Children's Bladder and Bowel Service working in the community. If you are a dynamic, motivated and forward-thinking Children's Nurse and want to be part of a gold standard service, then this may be just the job for you. There will be lots of opportunities for learning new skills and qualifications, including the NMP course.
About the Team
The Children's Bladder and Bowel Service is a small team consisting of Nurse Specialists, Continence Support Workers, and an Administration support. The team are enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and extremely friendly and supportive, who recognise individuality and encourage progress and change.
Location and Travel
Our Children's Continence Team are based at Broadoaks CDC in Leyland, where you will be based, however there will be an expectation to travel across the Preston, Chorley, and South Ribble patch to cover clinics.
Requirements
- An Enhanced DBS with lists for children is required for this post.
- Interview date may have to be later than advertised.
Role Responsibilities
Primary Duties
- To provide expert Children's Continence Service to Children and Young People with bladder and bowel problems at Tier/ Level 2.
- To provide appropriate child and family-focused nursing support to Children, Young People, and their families that responds to individual and local community needs.
- To take into account the need to prevent hospital admission.
- To facilitate early discharge and provide ongoing continence care for children and young people with continence needs working across the whole of the child/young person's environment—home, school, community, and hospital—to facilitate participation, inclusion, and normality.
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Skills and Abilities
- An ability to work as an autonomous practitioner is paramount to assess children holistically, plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based care.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of the service through teaching and support of other healthcare professionals and acting as a source of nursing expertise in this area.
Benefits and Company Information
- We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and Cumbria.
- Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference to support our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
- You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet new people, and do things you may possibly never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles, to building new skills and enhancing your career path.
- You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold, and help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal, and something to be proud of.
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Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Kate Catmore
- Job Title: Clinical Nurse Lead
- Email Address: kate.catmore@lthtr.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 01772 520711
Please do feel free to reach out to either myself—Kate Catmore, or the Nursing Team for further information about the job role.
Telephone: 01772 520711.
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