Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Band 6 Bladder and Bowel Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) will be a member of the Community Bladder and Bowel Team that works in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team and community nurses. The Band 6 CNS will work closely with the Band 7 CNS and will be clinically active in clinics, home visits and the Care Home Service and undertake telephone consultations. The role requires a practitioner with good communication skills who can engage the service users, carers and ensure collaboration with other services in the delivery of care. Your main responsibilities will include clinical delivery, ensuring quality, developing specialist knowledge, line management, budgetary responsibilities, promoting the values and culture of the trust.
Essential criteria
• Registered Nurse
• Graduate level qualification in relevant subject area or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continued professional development relevant to the role
• Recognisable teaching/mentorship qualification
• Able to complete nurse prescribing qualification and achieve prescriber status
• Advanced clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
• Sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options and how to manage when treatment not effective.
• IT skills
• Excellent communication skills with patients, carers and other health professionals.
• Evaluation skills in response to treatment
• Manage clinical risk
• Post registration experience relevant to the role.
• Recent experience working in continence care or urology, gynaecology or colorectal nursing
• Acute and community experience
• Experience of developing effective working relationships across agencies.
• Experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
• Must be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of core trust values and be able to articulate in practice
• Self-motivated and able to work independently in an organized and productive manner
• Effective interpersonal skills, able to listen actively and build empathy and understanding
• Positive attitude with flexible thinking, determination and persistence to address and resolve problems/risks and concerns
• Ability to work across services associated with the Trust
• Motivated, reliable and a commitment to team working
• Flexible worker able to be creative and innovative
• Empathetic
• Valid license to drive in UK with access to a car for business use.
Desirable
• Experience of working with paediatrics
• Experience developing clinical guidelines and policies
• Clinical skills for assessment and treatment related to continence nursing care
• Participation in clinical audit
• Ability to take forward ideas for quality improvement using a recognised methodology.
• Experience of budgetary monitoring/control

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients. 

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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