Job summary
We are seeking a compassionate, motivated, and experiencedBand 6 Community Stoma Nurseto join our dynamic and supportive community nursing team. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high-quality, person-centred care to patients with stoma needs across the community setting.
You will work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide specialist stoma care, education, and support to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals. The role involves both planned and responsive care, supporting early discharge, preventing hospital admissions, and promoting independence and self-management.
This post is ideal for a nurse with a strong interest in stoma care who is looking to develop their clinical expertise and leadership skills in a community setting.
Main duties of the job
Provide expert assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care for patients with a stoma.
Deliver specialist advice and support to patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals regarding stoma management and related issues.
Undertake home visits and clinics across the locality, ensuring timely and effective care delivery.
Support patients pre- and post-operatively, including stoma siting, education, and psychological support.
Work collaboratively with acute and community teams to ensure seamless care pathways and effective discharge planning.
Participate in the development and delivery of training and education for staff, patients, and carers.
Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives within the stoma care service.
Maintain accurate and timely clinical records in line with Trust policies and NMC standards.
Act as a clinical resource and role model, supporting junior staff and students.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined specialist nursing caseload.
Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.
Undertake holistic assessments of need for the patient and family, which may be highly complex, using the appropriate model of care and evidence based practice.
Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
Provide advice to patients, clients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, life style advice and health care.
Ensure that the team provides a high quality clinical service to its clients by participation in caseload and clinical supervision.
In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Develop partnerships and joint working within other agencies as appropriate
Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team.
Support the team leader in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Acts as an advocate and champion for patients and/or clients.
Act as a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care possible.
Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.
Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.
Provide information to the team leader on staff and patient/client activity as requested, to enable the effective management of the team.
Support the team leader in the implementation of practice development, improvement and service modernisation initiatives.
Support the team leader by monitoring and recording sickness and absence, capability and other issues within the team, reporting them as soon as possible.
In conjunction with other caseload holders, provide day-to-day supervision and support for the team.
Support the team leader in providing induction to the local working environment, clinical services and policies for new team members and students.
Undertake personal development plans with other members of the team, as delegated by the team leader.
Communicate with the multi-disciplinary team to provide best outcomes for patients/clients; this may include organising case conferences related to highly complex cases.
Participate in individual and group supervision.
Monitor record keeping within the team and inform the team leader of any issues.
This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency. Support the implementation of any initiatives to improve quality within the clinical governance framework.
Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
Work with the team leader to ensure achievement of your own personal development plan.
Maintain up to date knowledge and competence in line with professional and service requirements and demonstrate critical thinking, decision-making and reflective skills to ensure own professional development.
Support the Team Leader in creating an environment in which learning and practice development is fostered, evaluated and disseminated.Facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.
Facilitate pre and post registration student placements within the team.Mentor and assess pre-registration students.
Participation in clinical audits and research, as required.
The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined specialist nursing caseload.
Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.
Undertake holistic assessments of need for the patient and family, which may be highly complex, using the appropriate model of care and evidence based practice.
Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
Provide advice to patients, clients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, life style advice and health care.
Ensure that the team provides a high quality clinical service to its clients by participation in caseload and clinical supervision.
In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Develop partnerships and joint working within other agencies as appropriate
Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team.
Support the team leader in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Acts as an advocate and champion for patients and/or clients.
Act as a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care possible.
Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.
Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.
Provide information to the team leader on staff and patient/client activity as requested, to enable the effective management of the team.
Support the team leader in the implementation of practice development, improvement and service modernisation initiatives.
Support the team leader by monitoring and recording sickness and absence, capability and other issues within the team, reporting them as soon as possible.
In conjunction with other caseload holders, provide day-to-day supervision and support for the team.
Support the team leader in providing induction to the local working environment, clinical services and policies for new team members and students.
Undertake personal development plans with other members of the team, as delegated by the team leader.
Communicate with the multi-disciplinary team to provide best outcomes for patients/clients; this may include organising case conferences related to highly complex cases.
Participate in individual and group supervision.
Monitor record keeping within the team and inform the team leader of any issues.
This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency. Support the implementation of any initiatives to improve quality within the clinical governance framework.
Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
Work with the team leader to ensure achievement of your own personal development plan.
Maintain up to date knowledge and competence in line with professional and service requirements and demonstrate critical thinking, decision-making and reflective skills to ensure own professional development.
Support the Team Leader in creating an environment in which learning and practice development is fostered, evaluated and disseminated.Facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.
Facilitate pre and post registration student placements within the team.Mentor and assess pre-registration students.
Participation in clinical audits and research, as required.
The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
Person Specification
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Professional
- Teaching/Mentorship Qualification or equivalent worked based experience
Desirable
- V300 Prescriber if required for the post
- Clinical Examination
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in identified specialist field of nursing
- Experience of successful multi-agency working
- Demonstrable experience in relevant area of specialised nursing practice or equivalent
- Evidence of CPD/short courses
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
- Understanding of partnership working
- Understanding of the principles of care management
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients, clients, carers and colleagues
Desirable
- Management and clinical leadership experience
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication, organisation and interpersonal skills
- Risk assessment skills
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
- Self management and motivation skills
- IT literate
Person Specification
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Professional
- Teaching/Mentorship Qualification or equivalent worked based experience
Desirable
- V300 Prescriber if required for the post
- Clinical Examination
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in identified specialist field of nursing
- Experience of successful multi-agency working
- Demonstrable experience in relevant area of specialised nursing practice or equivalent
- Evidence of CPD/short courses
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
- Understanding of partnership working
- Understanding of the principles of care management
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients, clients, carers and colleagues
Desirable
- Management and clinical leadership experience
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication, organisation and interpersonal skills
- Risk assessment skills
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
- Self management and motivation skills
- IT literate
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
