Children's Community Continence Nurse Specialist.

To provide expert Children's Continence Service to Children and Young People with bladder and bowel problems at Tier/ Level 2.
To provide appropriate child and family focused nursing support to Children Young People and their families that responds to individual and local community needs. To take into account the need to prevent hospital admission. To facilitate early discharge and provide ongoing continence care for children and young people with continence needs working across the whole of the child/ young person's environment- home, school, community and hospital- to facilitate participation, inclusion and normality.
An ability to work as an autonomous practitioner is paramount to assess children holistically, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care.
You will contribute to continuous improvement of the service through teaching and support of other health care professionals and acting as a source of nursing expertise in this area.

Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of., Post holder to work flexibly across the Children's Bladder and Bowel service, delivering high quality, evidence-based bladder and bowel care for children and young people.
Perform and interpret complex skills in; urinalysis, bladder and bowel charting, ultrasound bladder scanning.
Draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources in their practice.
Develop and use knowledge and skills in order that professional development, bladder and bowel competencies can be maintained and keep professional portfolio up to date. To accept responsibility for own professional practice as a reflective, accountable clinical practitioner.
Escalate concerns in relation to management plans/ treatment/ safeguarding/ social issues to ensure the child's safety is paramount and in accordance with legislation.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
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We are reminded everyday of how important life is, so as part of our Working Smarter pledge we offer a variety of flexible working options and wellbeing support to enable our people to find and maintain the right work-life balance.
If you are applying for a secondment role please ensure you have agreement from your current line manager prior to attending an interview. Also please ensure you have read the LTHTR Secondment Policy. A copy of this can be found on the intranet or by contacting [email protected]
Please note a young person must be in part-time education or training until they're 18. therefore if you are under 18 we are unable to employ you on a full time basis, unless it is in an apprenticeship role.
If the role you've applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this on your behalf and the cost will be recovered from your salary, either as a one-off payment, or over 3 months. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £22, Standard DBS check £22 and Enhanced DBS check £42. You should be aware that if you are successful in obtaining a position that requires a DBS check but later withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check. DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions. The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here.
In line with guidance from United Kingdom Health Security Agency, all staff and volunteers are required to comply with Trust Infection Prevention and Control processes in relation to safe working. This includes mask wearing and adherence to social distancing at all Trust sites.

The Children's Bladder and Bowel Service is a small team consisting of Nurse Specialists, Health Care Assistant support and Administration support. The team are enthusiastic, knowledgeable and extremely friendly and supportive group of people, who recognise individuality and encourage progress and change.
Our Children's Continence Team are based at Broadoaks CDC in Leyland, where you will be based and expected to travel across Preston, Chorley and South Ribble patch.
An Enhanced DBS with lists for children is required for this post.
Interview date to be confirmed.