Clinical Nurse Specialist Bladder and Bowel

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare is seeking two Bladder and Bowel Nurses to join our specialist team. We have opportunities within our Mid and North Hampshire Bladder and Bowel Teams. Successful candidates will become part of both their local multidisciplinary community team, which forms an integral part of the Hampshire wide Community Bladder and Bowel Service.

We are looking for candidates who either hold additional qualifications in continence care or who have a strong interest in developing their skills in this field. Training and upskilling will be provided as part of the role.

As a Bladder and Bowel Nurse, you will provide holistic support to patients across a variety of settings, including clinics, patients homes, and care homes. The primary aim of the service is to understand each patient's individual needs through specialist assessment and then to develop a conservative treatment and management plan that will support and promote their independence.

You will also work closely with and support the development of unregistered and junior staff within the service. You will also be required to work closely and collaboratively with other relevant clinicians and services across the local healthcare system to promote both seamless pathways and joined up care for our patients.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist holistic assessment of patients who are referred into the service with bladder and bowel symptoms.

To work with patients to develop conservative treatment and management plans that meet their needs.

To support with triage of referrals coming into the service.

To appropriately refer patients on to other services as required.

To work within their locality to build strong relationships with other local healthcare services that may be involved in a patients care.

To support and line manage junior and unregistered members of the team.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence