Band 6/7 Adult Bladder and Bowel Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job Overview

Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Camden Bladder and Bowel Service

To play a key role in the co-ordination of the continence advisory service, helping to provide a high-quality specialist service to patients in clinic and at home

Main duties of the job

• Act as a role model in expert practice facilitating and supporting the delivery of effective patient care.
• Provide expert advice and support to the primary health care team enabling them to deliver optimum care and good practice.
• Take responsibility for assessing, developing and implementing highly specialised nursing care programmes to patients in clinic and at home.
• Work collaboratively with other members of the multi-disciplinary team in order to ensure a seamless service delivery.
• Liaise with other organizations, voluntary, statutory and health, to provide holistic care.
• Use quality standards in all aspects of care planning and delivery.
• Ensure that nursing care is evidence based.
• To provide a service liaison role and to promote relevant service developments in support of commissioned changes in service.
• To ensure that there is a robust internal procedure/guidelines within the service.

Working for our organisation

Values

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 6 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff members.

As a Band 6/7 nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.

As a band 6/7 nurse, we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Person specification
• Interview and Application Form
• Essential criteria

• RGN- BSc or working at Equivalent
• At least one clinical post registration qualification, ie specialist practitioner;
• 5 years post-registration experience
• Experience in planning and providing care to patients with continence problems
• Evidence of working partnership and collaboration with other professionals
• Up-to-date evidence-based knowledge and skills, particularly in continence issues
• Experience of using IT in clinical practice
• Able to work without supervision to achieve the objectives of the post
• Evidence of the ability to work in a changing and stressful situation.