Clinical Nurse Lead - Children's Bladder and Bowel Service
- 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 Clinical Nurse Lead for the Children’s Bladder and Bowel Service, you will be working within and leading the team, supporting children who require assessment, care planning, and intervention following referral into the service.
✨ This is a rare opportunity to lead 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 ?.
Main duties of the job- In having overall responsibility for the provision of excellent care with compassion for children and young people who are known to the service, and their families/carers upon referral, you will ensure that patients and their carers experience a high-quality, patient-centred service. This means ensuring care is accessible, effective, and delivered at a time and place ?⏳ according to clinical need.
- Within this role, you will plan, deliver, and evaluate community nursing interventions, working in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies.
This will help children and young people achieve their optimum health, independence, and psychological/social well-being ??.
- Clinical skills and experience in working with children who have health-related continence needs are required.
- This post is expected to be split 80% leadership / 20% clinical in terms of responsibilities.
- Being based at our Children's Community Setting brings a natural wealth of Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) working and liaison opportunities. ??
?️ Our Community site, Broadoaks, is undergoing its own transformation—fitting with the journey this service has been on. From being a newly commissioned service in 2021 to achieving gold standard accreditation ? and national recognition ? for service development, we are excited to see where your leadership might take it next.
- This team may be small in workforce, but it is big in passion ❤️—dedicated to making a real difference to the users of our service.
- We warmly welcome you to reach out and arrange a visit ? to meet some of the team and gain your own feel for who we are and what we can offer you.
- Please refer to the attached job description for a wider description of core duties and note this is not exhaustive.
- To lead the co-ordination of a holistic case management model for a caseload of children with identified healthcare needs in the community, who are at risk of repeat admission to hospital. To manage and oversee the provision of evidence-based nursing care for children with bladder and bowel-related nursing needs.
- Is responsible for the provision of Excellent Care with Compassion.
- Lead service improvement and the delivery of excellent assessment and care.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria- Appropriate NMC Registration
- Evidence of continued professional development
- NMC recognised Mentorship qualification, proactive involvement in development of nurses and nursing practice.
- Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through CPD.
- Community Specialist Practitioner qualification- children’s community nursing
- Relevant courses/qualification in relation to Children’s Continence, health promotion strategies, implementations and improving health outcomes for Children
- Independent prescriber (or willingness to undertake
- Management or leadership qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria- Substantial documented experience of working in the community at a senior level/previous band 6
- Specialist knowledge of current issues, legislation and policy affecting community children’s health services
- Evidence of advanced or specialist nursing skills and knowledge relevant to service provision
- Experience of implementing evidence-based practice
- Line management, team leadership and staff supervision skills
- Service development experience
- Significant experience of multi-professional working
- Ability to lead and influence change
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance and the relevance to practice
- Leadership and management experience
- Previous experience of research, audit and quality improvement
- Evidence of service transformation and measuring patient outcomes
- Experience of handling clinical incidents and complaints
- Experience of undertaking research and or clinical audit
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