Bladder and bowel clinical team lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role requirement and person specification

Criteria

Essential

Qualifications, training, knowledge and experience

NMC Registration

Degree Masters degree or equivalent experience

Mentorship preparation/Practice Assessor/Practice Supervisor

Promotion of Continence Care (ENB 978) or equivalent

Management qualifications

Completion of advance physical assessment module or willingness to undertake

Extensive and relevant post-registration experience

Experience at a senior level in bladder and bowel specialist nursing and continence service provision

Presentation skills

Experience of self-direction

Evaluation and clinical audit

Clinical skills relating to continence

Leadership skills, organisational skills and teaching skills

Experience as an appraiser and in clinical supervision

Ability to relate theory to practice, with a knowledge and understanding of the principles of adult protection

Ability to work with a range of healthcare professionals and be flexible to cover service needs

Awareness of any changes in NHS provision

Communication skills

Communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information about patients conditions to multi-disciplinary team colleagues to ensure effective delivery of patient treatments; barriers to understanding.

Communicates highly sensitive, confidential information concerning patients/clients requiring empathy, persuasion and reassurance.

Work collaboratively, maintaining professional dialogue, with the service leads in SCT and other organisations on a range of bladder and bowel conditions plus related healthcare and/or social issues.

Analytical and judgemental skills

The post holder must co-operate with carrying out risk assessments and must adhere to safe systems of work. This includes understanding and adhering to the reporting procedures for clinical and non-clinical incidents/near misses. Employees must take a proactive role in contributing to risk identification and management and be responsive to lessons learned from incidents and near misses.

Use advanced skills and expert knowledge to assess the physical and psycho-social needs of a defined client group, instigating therapeutic care plans and treatments based on the best available evidence in order to improve health outcomes.

Negotiate and agree with the patient, carers and other professionals individual roles and responsibilities with actions to be taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring onto other services or professionals as appropriate. This will include participating in meetings/case conferences in response to the needs of the individual.

Planning and organisational skills

Ability to prioritise workload.

Plans delivery of specialist nursing care, allocation and deployment of staff, coordinates multi agency activities

Physical skills

I.T. emails, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint

Use of clinical tools to support clinical assessments and treatments such as bladder ultrasound scanners.

Dexterity and accuracy required for insertion of catheters

Responsibility for patient care

You will be expected to take part in the processes for monitoring and improving the quality of care provided to patients. This includes risk management, complying with and contributing to CQC requirements and clinical audit.

Assesses, develops and implements specialist nursing care programmes; provides highly specialist advice.

Responsibility for policy and service development

Leads the development, implementation and audit of protocols, policies and integrated pathways using current research that facilitate change in practice which improve clinical outcomes and meet the needs of patients and carers.

Financial and physical resources

Joint responsibility for overtime and expense approval.

Responsibility for ordering and maintaining stock, including supervising junior staff with product management and orders.

Human resources

Be responsible for the performance review of community nursing staff which includes

annual appraisal (PDR) and individual development plans. Monitor staff against objectives set, giving feedback regularly via the supervision process.

Assist in the recruitment of staff, appraisal process, risk assessment process and complaints, performance management process.

Assist in clinical supervision and peer review including mentorship to junior colleagues.

Provides clinical leadership to team members.

The organisation is committed to support the health and wellbeing of all its employees. The post holder is required to familiarise themselves with the organisations range of health and wellbeing support, share with their team, and report stress and ill health as early as possible.

Information resources

Database management

Inputs activity onto the recognised MCH database in order to support service development and meet contractual requirements.

Keeps accurate, contemporaneous records and written reports, as required.

Research and development

Take part in clinical research in-line with MCH protocols

Incorporates relevant research findings with practice and participates in MCH approved research programmes.

Freedom to Act

Accountable for own professional actions, manages team and interprets policy

Full JD can be found in attachments

Person Specification

Review of supporitng statement

Essential

• Qualified nurse with a degree

Desirable

• Masters in bladder and bowel

Experience in bladder and bowel service

Essential

• Currently working within a bladder and bowel team

Desirable

• Team lead for bladder and bowel

Experience of management of staff

Essential

• Experience of line management of staff

Desirable

• Current qualification in staff manangement

MCH Values

Essential

• Caring and compassionate, delivering quality and value and working in partnership

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

Our Zone

Patterns lane

Rochester

ME12RB

Employer's website

https://www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)