Community Continence & Urology Nurse | Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FoundationTrust in Ellesmere Port

To work as a member of the Continence & Urology Team to provide high quality, evidence-based, holistic nursing care to patients within a clinic, care home or community setting. To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care needs using a person centred approach. This is a well established team who provide Specialist Continence Assessment and treatments for Children and Adults across the whole of the West Cheshire Footprint.

To carry out continence assessments, implement and evaluate treatment programmes to patients in the community and care home settings. Professionally responsible and accountable for own caseload. Participate in nurse led continence clinics. Perform clinical skills relating to the post. Education and training to carers. Responsible for maintaining notes and ensuring appropriate storage of confidential records and record keeping. Work with external agencies to raise profile of continence promotion. To communicate effectively with relatives, clients, agencies and the multi-disciplinary team. To act as the clients advocate at all times. To encourage good relationships with other statutory and voluntary services involving collaborative working. To have good communication within the continence team. Responsible for managing and prioritising own caseload.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care. Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcomes applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services. All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’ Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.