Job summary
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
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
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
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.
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).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
