Bladder and Bowel Care Specialist Nurse

• Provide expert assessment, management and advice for patients with complex bladder and bowel needs.
• Deliver clinical leadership and specialist oversight across Integrated Neighbourhood Teams.
• Support and supervise specialist nurses and wider multidisciplinary staff delivering bladder and bowel care.
• Lead training, competency development and clinical supervision programmes.
• Drive quality improvement, service development, audit and innovation.
• Work collaboratively with community, primary care, acute and care home colleagues to develop integrated pathways
• Contribute to the development of a city-wide approach to bladder and bowel care, ensuring safe, effective and equitable services for patients.

Essential

• Registered with NMC
• Post graduate education in Bladder and Bowel Care or have equivalent knowledge and experience.
• Mentoring and assessing qualification.
• Leadership and management qualification within Healthcare / relevant leadership experience
• Eligible and willing to obtain independent non-medical prescribing qualification.
• Eligible and willing to work towards Msc or equivalent

Essential

• Must have an extensive post registration experience in specialist area.
• Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to facilitate ongoing competence.
• Experience in the management of patients with bladder and bowel care related issues.
• Experience of clinical case management.
• Demonstrate experience in facilitating change in practise.

Essential

• Must be able to evidence and demonstrate good clinical assessment skills.
• Must be able to demonstrate sound personal management skills - time management, prioritising, planning.
• Must be able to demonstrate operational judgements, managing conflicting views / reconcile inter and intra professional differences of opinion.
• Must be able to demonstrate recent operational and clinical leadership experience in the subject matter.
• Must be able to contribute to supervisory process for junior staff and learners.
• Must demonstrate a high standard of written and verbal communications skills.
• Must have good awareness of recent research issues and evidence of involvement in research or audit.
• Must be able to implement the principles of Clinical Governance and Audit.
• Must be able to practice safely and competently, particularly in the assessment of risk.
• Must be able to demonstrate an ability to change theory into practice.

Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's values. (As detailed in UHCW's Values in Action document below)
• Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience