Are you looking for an exciting new challenge?

Are you keen to be part of a team of professionals who are motivated to provide the highest quality care?

An exciting new role has been commissioned to develop a Childrens Containment Products Service in the Dudley locality. The successful nurse will help to shape the service by identifying children at a young age who need additional support with their continence needs.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve assessing and reviewing children who require containment products where their long term conditions may prevent full continence from being achieved.

Reviewing children that already receive products in order to evidence a medical need for usage and offer continence advice where appropriate.

To offer support and guidance to health professionals and school staff in the form of training or group work.

About us

The service will sit under the Childrens Continence Team, where the successful applicant will receive both clinical and managerial supervision.

Job description
Job responsibilities

To support to children and their families where it is anticipated there may be difficulties in toilet training (from 4 years)

To offer a comprehensive containment products assessment with planned review dates

To support families already accessing products to review their needs

To support and train other health professionals in promoting continence needs for children and young people

Person Specification
Interview
Essential

• oRegistered Nurse
• oDemonstrates experience for assessing, developing, implementing/reviewing specialist continence care programmes including both bladder and bowel care
• oExperience of implementing education and training programmes for a defined age group, carers and relevant community staff
• oSpecial knowledge in management of bladder and bowel conditions
• oApply relevant research to ensure evidence based practice
• oEffective written and oral communication skills
• oUse a varied array of skills to devise continence packages for children with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, communication disabilities, complex health care
• oAbility to use PC based software programmes e.g. email, word
• oAbility to organise own workload and be responsible for managing time and resources effectively
• oAbility to plan and document care on an individual basis

Desirable

• oEvidence of ongoing professional development
• oBladder and bowel related qualification
• oExtensive experience working with children
• oExtensive experience working in the community
• oAbility to develop audits/standard setting and develop guidelines/policies
• oKnowledge of children and young peoples division
• oKnowledge of standards, governance systems and clinical audit
• oSound clinical knowledge of current issues affecting children with urology/gastroenterology conditions

Employer details
Employer name

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Ridge Hill Centre

Brierley Hil

DY8 5ST

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285-5922-CYPF