Paediatric Bladder and Bowel nurse

Whittington Health NHS Trust has a ground-breaking, friendly, and new NCL (North Central London) Paediatric Bladder and Bowel team delivering care for Children in the community of all NCL boroughs. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, passionate, and highly motivated paediatric nurse, to join the paediatric community team at The Whittington Health NHS Trust. The successful candidate will join a forward-thinking team of experienced nurses, with extensive opportunities to enhance and develop competences and skill set when providing patient care in autonomous nurse led clinics. The post holder will be a highly visible senior nurse and as such expected to provide specialist knowledge, advice/support, and clinical expertise to the wider team.Main duties of the jobWorking as a team player, your role will require excellent physical assessment skills, partnership working and a strong commitment towards achieving the outcomes to improve the health and wellbeing of this patient group. You will be expected to demonstrate clinical expertise and governance in all aspects of your work, being supported by robust organisational supervision, guidelines, and policies.Facilitate independent nurse led clinics for Bladder and Bowel conditions.Manage these conditions confidently with an aim to gain optimum control and discharge back to the care of the GP or if this is not possible refer up to secondary care for further intervention and support.Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care for children and young people with B& B conditions.Act as a visible role model and expert practitioner in primary care, providing teaching and upskill staff within GP practices and health centres.About usWhittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesThe NCL Bladder and Bowel service sits within our Paediatric Primary Care Service and is commissioned by NCL ICB, and works collaboratively with stakeholders including GP practices, the childrens community nursing team, secondary care departments, tertiary care and the commissioning team with an aim to educate, support and empower families to better manage their B& B conditions in the community.The post holder will help to drive an innovative service which involves facilitating nurse led clinics within either GP practices or Health Centres for B& B conditions, this will be in both face to face and virtual formats. The B& B team engage effectively with both primary, secondary and tertiary care provisions as patients can move between providers. Patients can be referred into the service via their GP or practice nurse or community nursing team.The post holder will be expected to confidently complete history taking, perform physical examination, initiate effective treatment and care planning, with routine follow up to ensure patients are responding to treatment and to assure compliance to treatment. The post holder will ensure that effective communication with GPs are maintained when requesting prescriptions and work within the ICBs medicine managements guidance.The post holder will support the team leader, community matron and assistant director of childrens and family Services to embed and develop the Paediatric Bladder and Bowel service.The post holder will be supported by an integrated team approach with Practice Nurses and encouraged to develop their skills to provide effective care.The post holder will contribute towards service development to encourage and support management of chronic illness within primary care to aim to minimise hospital attendance, admissions, and re-admissions.The post holder will be expected to act as a visible role model and expert practitioner in the B& B team within the paediatric primary care and will be expected to ensure the provision of high quality safe and effective holistic care to all children and young people.Person SpecificationEducation / QualificationsEssentialRN / RSCN with current registrationMentorship qualification or equivalentEvidence of further professional development in relevant subject area e.g., Respiratory, Allergy, Dermatology, and constipationDesirableAdvanced History Taking and Physical Assessment Course - Level 7Eric B& B trainingSkillsEssentialWell developed general paediatric nursing skillsExcellent communication and interpersonal skillsGood teaching and assessing skillsPaediatric advocateAbility to supervise junior nursing staff and studentsGood problem solving skillsCompetent IT skills - using EMIS / MEDWAY / Anglia ICE and RIOCompetent and contemporaneous clinical notesGood leadership and organisational skillsDesirableB& B Skills and experienceKnowledgeEssentialGeneral paediatric nursing experienceExperience of nursing enuresis and constipation paediatric patientsExperience of working with learnersKnowledge of current issues and NHS reforms locally and nationallyDesirableEmergency Department nursing experiencecommunity nursing experienceClear understanding of child protection policiesPrinciples of teaching and assessment of learnersPersonal qualitiesEssentialProfessional demeanourCommitted to family centred careAbility to work within a multidisciplinary teamAbility to work autonomously without direct supervisionSelf-motivated and the ability to motivate othersMotivated to learn and develop and to teach othersApproachable, flexible, adaptable and supportivePositive attitude to change and development within the teamAbility to recognise stress within self and team and identify coping mechanismsAble to work flexible hours to cover service needs if requiredWilling to rotate to other paediatric areas to meet service needs as requiredGood attendance recordEmployer detailsEmployer nameWhittington Hospital NHS TrustAddressThe Northern Health Centre580 Holloway RoadIslingtonN7 6LBAny attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.220-WHT-2151 Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.
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