Continence Senior Nurse in London

A Bladder and Bowel Specialist Nurse is an experienced practitioner who specialises in caring for patients with bladder or bowel dysfunction, including management of related issues. A Bladder and Bowel Specialist Nurse Band 6 will be involved in clinical practice, health promotion, teaching, supporting and supervision of Band 5 and Band 3 team members. They will be a senior clinician within the Service and will undertake work in a variety of settings including working from base, care homes, patients' homes and specialist clinics.

Main duties of the job:

• Assessing, treating and reviewing adults with continence needs and/or bladder and bowel dysfunction.
• Ensuring under guidance that patient care plans are robust, individualised and are agreed with the patient and/or carers/family members as appropriate.
• Manage a caseload of adult patients across BB&T who require continence nursing care.
• Working within nurse-led clinics and patients' homes, accepting referrals from other healthcare professionals and associated agencies.
• Under guidance plan and implement a programme/plan of care for the specialist management of adults with continence problems and to monitor its effectiveness.
• Provide counselling under guidance, psychological support as appropriate to adults and their carers/family members in response to their identified continence needs.
• Implement evidence-based changes in clinical practice that improves the standard of care and health outcomes for adults with continence problems.
• Refer adults on to other healthcare professionals as appropriate for further investigations and treatment.
• Support other healthcare professionals in planning care.
• Establish positive working relationships with other healthcare professionals to promote a seamless service.
• Assist with the development of the Continence Advisory Service in accordance with National Policies and NICE Guidance.
• Work with the team to ensure performance targets are met and responding in good time to local commissioning group requirements.

Job responsibilities:

• Ensure that high standards of care are promoted and practiced at all times.
• Ensure record keeping is robust and accurate in line with Trust policy.
• Organise and manage daily activities and establish priorities for self and junior members of the team.
• Attend and participate in staff and multi-disciplinary meetings within the Trust and acute setting as appropriate.
• Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct at all times.
• Continually assess working practice and risks encountered on a daily basis and contribute to the clinical governance agenda.
• Be aware of external and internal policies and reports, responding to lessons learned as appropriate to ensure continuity and improvement of patient care.
• Inform the team leader and senior nurses about any situations which may present a risk to patients and/or staff, including safeguarding concerns as appropriate.
• Consistently produce a high standard of work and to promote quality at all times.

About us:

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Working for Us:

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.

Our Values 2025 - 2030:

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

This post will be subject to a probationary period.

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,346 to a maximum of £2,270 p.a. pro rata for part time).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.