Continence Specialist Nurse inBishop Auckland inBishop Auckland PUBLISHED
FRI 27 DEC 2024
In addition to delivering high-quality care, the Continence Specialist Nurse will take on leadership responsibilities in the absence of lead nurses and contribute to training and policy development. The position supports family-friendly hours, primarily working Monday to Friday. Required qualifications include an understanding of change management, quality improvement, and clinical supervision, with prior community experience being desirable.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing service within the Community Directorate.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated registered nurse educated to degree level to join the adult bladder and bowel service.
The base for this post will be Innovation House, Bishop Auckland, this is a Countywide Community post so locality work will be required according to service need. This role involves a mixture of working within clinics, home visits, care homes and office environment.
The post will allow you to work in a specialist service and develop specialist skills / knowledge and expertise in bladder and bowel dysfunction. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of an innovative and forward thinking community based team. You will make a valuable contribution to the way local bladder and bowel services are organised and delivered in order to provide high quality, cost effective services to people living in County Durham and Darlington.
The role is supportive of family friendly hours working predominantly Monday to Friday (day hours, eg: 08:30-16:30).
The successful applicant will have a passion for delivering high quality care to people with bladder and bowel dysfunction. You will be dynamic and caring with excellent communication skills as patient education and support is an important component of the job.
Prior experience and an indepth knowledge of issues in complex bladder and bowel dysfunction is essential as is the promotion of continence care.
Working autonomously to triage, allocate work tasks, adhere to dealines in order to provide high quality evidence based care.
Experience of change management, quality improvement process and recent on going nursing development is a requirement.
Knowledge of budgetary control, IQEW and clinical supervision is also a requirement of the post.
Clinical community experience would be desirable as would a knowledge of appraisal and HR skills, but not essential
About us
Assessment and management of patients with complex bladder and/or bowel dysfunction.
Performing clinics and home visits within County Durham and Darlington, these will be a combination of telephone and face to face assessments and reviews.
Leadership and management of the service and staff as required in the absence of Lead Nurses.
Contribute to service and policy development as well as being able to provide education and training.
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