Clinical Nurse Specialist - Children\'s Continence Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the North Derbyshire Children’s Community Continence Service. We are a small friendly team which is the lead provider for the Countywide Continence Service who supports children and young people aged 4-19 years in the community to achieve their continence potential. We are looking for a registered Children's Nurse who has a passion for continence and strives to make a difference to children and young people’s incontinence needs. Applicants need to possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills whilst working independently and as part of a team. The post is for 4 days a week.

Main duties of the job:

• This role is to provide specialist clinical knowledge to support Children and Young People to reach their continence potential within community continence clinics across North Derbyshire.
• This will involve working independently with support/guidance from a multi-disciplinary (MDT) as required.
• You will be required to work collaboratively with all agencies to promote health, education and well-being of children with continence care needs.

Working for our organisation:

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated “Good” by the CQC. We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care.

Person specification:

• 1st level Registered Children's Nurse
• Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience in related work area, to demonstrate advanced level of practice
• Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students
• Children’s Nurse Advanced communication course
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
• Leadership training/qualification/experience
• Non-Medical prescribing

• Significant, relevant (post registration) experience with two years or more in speciality area
• Experience of working with Children and Young People
• Ability to conduct nurse led clinics
• Facilitate and support learning
• Awareness of Quality Assurance/peer review process
• Management and leadership experience
• Working with CYP in the community
• Evidence of leading a change project
• Experience of quality assurance/peer review process
• Experience of caring for children and young people with complex bowel and bladder conditions

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Audit experience and subsequent quality improvement
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Sound IT skills
• Awareness of local and national guidelines
• Evidence of developing clinical skills
• Advanced communication course
• Research experience
• Leadership course

• Able to use own initiative and work autonomously
• Positive attitude, self-motivated
• A car driver with a full current driving licence and own transport (for disabled applicants, suitable alternative arrangements may be agreed if necessary)
• Demonstrates Trust Values: Proud to CARE (Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement)

If you’re looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.