Specialist Nurse - Bladder & Bowel

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced nurse to join a friendly dynamic team to promote best practice bladder and bowel care for Trafford community.

The post holder will have responsibility to manage a designated caseload of patients providing Specialist Nurse-Led Bladder & Bowel Clinics and home visits across Trafford. This includes offering specialist male and female pelvic floor assessments, investigations and skills which includes digital rectal examination, portable bladder scanning, male and female urethral and suprapubic catheterisation and will work autonomously demonstrating and maintaining competence at a specialist level.

The post holder will have a Level One NMC Registration, ideally a V150 nurse prescribing qualification and substantial continence promotion, urology, gynaecology and/ or colorectal nursing experience. This experience will provide you with the knowledge and skills to undertake expert assessment of patient's bladder and/ or bowel symptoms either in a clinic or home setting to deliver and evaluate specialised, individual programmes of care, advising where appropriate on changes to treatment and management.

The post holder must be an excellent communicator, enthusiastic and well organised and work well under pressure. You must be able to car travel around various community locations delivering care. The service operates Monday to Friday 08.30-16.30 with no bank holiday or weekend work.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide specialist clinical advice, support, assessment, and interpretation of complex information to deliver best practice bladder and bowel care, treatment and management in line with Trust Policies and Procedures, National Guidelines, NICE and NMC Code of Conduct.

To provide high quality best practice specialist bladder and bowel care, support and advice to patients with persistent and/or complex continence problems and develop specialist care packages, working with patients, families and carers.

To promote effective management and treatment of bladder and bowel dysfunction by providing an educational and advisory service for adult patients and others caring for patients with continence problems including; the elderly, reasonable adjustments e.g., learning difficulties, mental health problems and long-term degenerative conditions.

To work within and across professional and organisational boundaries, liaising with GPs, other healthcare professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies to support the delivery of integrated, individualised and expert bladder and bowel care to a very high standard.

To prevent admission to hospital and to facilitate safe early discharge from hospital, supporting a culture of continuous quality improvement.

You will support the Bladder and Bowel Team in delivering an educational curriculum, in bladder and bowel care to all relevant healthcare professionals.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.