Stoma Care Nurse - Croydon Salts Healthcare

Job summary

This role in Stoma Care is to work within the Croydon Stoma Team to provide an expert Stoma Care Nursing Service to Croydon University Hospital and community as part of Croydon Health services NHS trust.

The Salts Medilink Stoma Nurse team are a team of clinical nurse specialists in stoma care who operate clinical partnerships with the NHS in various locations in England.

We offer the following service-

- Stoma and skin assessment

- Impartial advice on products

- Counselling and support

- Skin care advice

- Diet, lifestyle and travel advice

- NHS collaborative work

- New patient referrals

- Signposting for support garment fittings

If you would like to discuss this role in further details, please contact Barbara Milleret, Clinical Services Lead on 07741306360 or via email barbara.milleret@salts.co.uk

Main duties of the job

- To assist with influencing, planning, organising, & implementing programmes of individual, core and strategic stoma care service delivery in accordance with trust policy

- To attend the hospital MDT as required

- To explore opportunities to enhance patient care through nurse led initiatives

-To attend and participate in regular meetings to discuss areas regarding service improvement and service development

- To support the stoma care nurses in accepting referrals for and organising to meet/visit elective patients preoperatively to provide information and education to patients and their carers regarding their proposed surgery

-To site patients for their stoma forming surgery involving the patient/carer in the decision-making process

- Provide patients/carers with high quality written information

- To lead ward staff in developing a plan of care for each patient incorporating discharge planning

- Provide post-operative care, information, teaching, counselling, & support to ensure patients & their carers have appropriate levels of knowledge & skills

- Provide follow up care and support during home visits as required & in the Outpatients Department

- To maintain accurate documentation & provide verbal and written reports as required

- To support the Stoma Care Nurses in the management of complex cases, communicating relevant information & ensuring appropriate referral and management for these patients with the MDT

About us

Salts Healthcare is a family-run manufacturing company based in Aston, Birmingham, specializing in ostomy and orthotic products. The company has a network of customer care centres that provide home delivery of all stoma and incontinence products, along with advisors and stoma care nurses to support prescription customers. The nursing team at Salts Healthcare is dedicated to providing high-quality care and support to patients with stoma care needs.