Children's Bladder & Bowel Care Nurse - Coventry Special Schools

Job summary

Children's Bladder and Bowel Care Nurses - Coventry Special Schools 37.5 hours Term Time Only

This exciting opportunity has been created for a Children's Bladder and Bowel Care Nurse working mainly with children attending Coventry Special Schools.

This exciting post will join a team who are passionate about delivering holistic support within the community setting, to maximise the child or young person's independence and quality of life with bladder and bowel dysfunction.

You will develop excellent working relationships with the community children's nursing team, special school nursing and universal services including health visiting, school nursing, education, acute services, social care and allied health professionals.

You will use local and national guidelines to perform continence assessments for children and young people with bladder and/or bowel symptoms, in a range of school, community, and clinic settings. You will ensure quality service delivery by use of clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis and management plan. You will have continuing responsibility for the assessment, implementation, and evaluation of health care programmes for children and young people within a defined caseload.

Main duties of the job

To be a member of the Children's Bladder and Bowel team; delivering clinical care under the direction of the Band 6 Specialist Bladder and Bowel nurse.

Holistically supporting the child or young person, family and carers, in response to their specific needs to maximise the child or young person's independence and quality of life.

To act as a liaison and resource within the multi-disciplinary and multi- agency teams.

To contribute to the implementation of training programmes, protocols and care pathways within the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust.

To acknowledge the specific cultural needs of children and young people and their families and ensure that care is delivered in a way that is sensitive to such needs.

This post is mainly working with children attending Coventry Special schools but there may be occasions when the post holder will be expected to provide care across Coventry and Warwickshire.

To act as mentor and supervisor of junior staff and carers.Ensuring high quality care supported by evidence-based practice.For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the role and requirements.

About us

You will be joining a friendly and committed service who prides itself on delivering high quality, compassionate care. You will be supported of the senior managerial team, clinical leads and clinical nurse specialists. Your professional development aspirations will be supported with access to ongoing training and clinical supervision.

At CWPT, we put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• flexible working opportunities
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.