Band 5 Children's Continence Nurse

To provide support to children and young people living in WILTSHIRE with bladder and bowel needs and to promote continence, by utilising and promoting evidence-based care. To provide nursing care, support, training, advice and education to children and their families and carers at home and in the community working in close partnership with a range of other statutory and voluntary agencies.

To provide children and young people with the opportunity to express their views in an individually appropriate way, having to have their opinions considered to develop the services.
Main Responsibilities

To complete around 6 clinical appointments a day with families and/or children to provide assessment or follow up of their continence needs. Appointments can be undertaken in a face to face clinical capacity or via the telephone.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist interventions, providing clear advice to the child, family, professionals, and care workers.

To co-work with other professionals to support the child and family's nursing needs.

Implement both direct and indirect and robust programmes of intervention.

Accurately assess and immediately adjust specialist input and support to meet the child's needs in all settings. Also to support children with additional needs.

To promote self-advocacy and to act as an advocate for children and families.

To contribute to relevant teaching and support packages to children, families, carers, and other professionals.

RSCN/RN Child or Specialist Practioner.eg SCPHN

Experience/knowledge of working with children with additional needs

Current registration with the NMC

Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary interagency team.

Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.

Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.

Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines with the support of a senior nurse.

Commitment to client-centred practice.

Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.

Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive written and verbal information.

Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.

Broad knowledge of normal child development

Working knowledge of a wide range of nursing models of practice.

Working knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines.

Working knowledge and evidence of observational implementation of therapeutic assessments, interventions relevant to children and young people.

Evidence of continuing professional development.

Basic IT skills

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

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As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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Package Description

As a Children's Continence Nurse, you'll be part of our valued team in Wiltshire. Your allocated hub will be the one closest to home. There are three locations in Chippenham SN151BN, Trowbridge BA14 0XG and Salisbury SP46AT.

You will feel valued as a Children's Continence Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of £28,407-34,581 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions


• Free tea and coffee at your base location


• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you


• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates


• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling


• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise


• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year


• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission