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Registered Nurse Associate Children's Bladder and Bowel Service - Band 4

Investment in a Coventry and Warwickshire wide Children’s Bladder and Bowel Service has created exciting opportunities for Children’s Bladder and Bowel Care Nurses. 

This exciting post will be part of team who are passionate about delivering holistic support within a community setting, to maximise the child or young person’s independence and quality of life with bladder and bowel dysfunction.

You will work in collaboration with Community Children’s Nursing Team, Special School Nursing and Universal Services including Health Visiting, School Nursing, Education, Acute Services, Social Care and Allied Health Professionals.

You will use local and national guidelines for continence to perform continence reassessments for CYP with bladder and/or bowel symptoms in a range of school, community, and clinic settings. You will have continuing responsibility for the assessment, implementation, and evaluation of health care programmes for Children and Young People within a defined caseload.

There will be one full time post. Flexible working arrangements will be considered.

Main duties of the job

To be a member of the Children’s Bladder and Bowel team; delivering clinical care under the direction of the registered nurse.

• Demonstrate understanding of all elements of the nursing process and be able to assist the Registered Nurse in the on-going assessment, planning, management and evaluation of care.
• Support children and young people with all aspects of care including activities of daily living, providing patient centred care and promoting health and independence through awareness raising to other professionals as appropriate.
• Perform and record clinical observations and undertake clinical tasks appropriate to competence and setting.
• Report back and share information with the Registered Nurses on the condition, behaviour, activity and responses of children and young people.
• Recognise issues relating to safeguarding vulnerable children and adults and report any problems or raise concerns to the appropriate registered care professionals.
• Assist in the implementation of appropriate action to meet the specific physical, emotional and psychological, social, cultural and spiritual needs of children and young people and families.

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the role and requirements. 

Working for our organisation

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.