Job overview

Urology Benign Specialist Nurse

Division: Surgery & Anaesthetics

Band: 7  

Salary: £38,3682 - £54,710  The post would be considered as a development to band 7 once the competency been completed

Interview Date: 19th August 2025 

We are recruiting for a Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist-Benign who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and have the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

The Medway NHS Foundation Trust is West Kent Urology Cancer/Benign Centre and serves diverse population over 700.000. The Urology Department offers variety of services to the local urology population and strive to develop and expand their services to meet growing needs. This job description outlines the current main responsibilities of the post. However the duties of the post may change and develop over time this job description may, therefore be amended in consultation with the post holder.

Main duties of the job

Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care, utilising research findings as appropriate.

Support, advice and teach catheter care for patients with long term indwelling catheters.

Provide additional assessment and perform uroflowmetry and bladder scanning for patients. Assist; perform, interpret and plan care of action with specialist investigation such as Urodynamics Study and PTNS within their job role expectations.

Teach patients/carers intermittent self-catheterisation and self-dilatation.

Provide a one stop assessment for patients referred with lower urinary tract symptoms, trial without a catheter, urinary retention or as walk in patients to clinic.

Initiate or participate in clinical audit/research projects and urology presentations. Set up new nurse led urology clinics to help patients and Urology Department.

Liaise with the Multi-disciplinary team in providing efficient and effective care meet the needs of the service.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.