Job summary
Employer heading
Children's Bladder and Bowel Adviser
Band 4
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
- The Children & Young people’s Bladder & Bowel Adviser (‘CYPBBA) is a member of the Children’s Community Integrated Nursing Team providing specialised and skilled nursing care for children with continence conditions in the community.
- To work across the community collaborative geographical patch to support and promote effective working relationships across Community sectors to enhance and increase the delivery of patient care within the community via the prevention and reduction of hospital attendance and accident and emergency attendance for children with continence conditions and/or bladder/bowel dysfunction
Main duties of the job
- The CYPBBA will provide evidenced based nursing care and support to children and young people and their families with continence needs and/or bladder or bowel dysfunction.
- The CYPBBA will be responsible for the assessment of care needs, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision and will be required to teach non-registered nursing staff, educational professionals, and parents/families/carers.
- The CYPBBA will contribute to the clinical direction and future development of the Children’s Continence Service.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To implement evidenced based programmes of care for management of children and young people with continence conditions and to monitor effectiveness accordingly.
- To support and enable parents/carers as partners in care.
- To act as a point of contact and provide specialist training and education to support other health care professionals/non health care professionals for children and young people with continence conditions .
- To establish effective and efficient working relationships with primary and secondary care, paediatric services and other agencies to provide a cohesive, seamless service provision.
- To assess and identify individual needs, plan and implement a programme of care for the specialist management of children with continence problems and evaluate outcomes in regard to toilet training education and containment product provision.
- To advise, encourage support and monitor care at home, educating parents in the care of their child as appropriate and also to teach children/young people self-care when appropriate.
- To assess the need and initiate where applicable requirements for aids/products/ equipment and continually evaluate their use and suitability and ensure relatives/carers are properly trained and competent.
- To be aware of and be responsible for the escalation and reporting of safeguarding issues as they arise and in a timely manner directly in line with the safeguarding policy.
Person specification
desriable
Essential criteria
- previous nhs experience
- good level of education
essential
Essential criteria
- community nhs experience
Desirable criteria
- System one experience
essential
Essential criteria
- children's community experience
- paediatric continence experience
- associate practitioner /nursery nurse
Desirable criteria
- previous experience with containment products
- continence knowledge and experience
- computer skills
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- rachael edwards
- Job title
- clinical lead for CYP continence
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07583 047273
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