Continence Lead Nurse - Community

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 04 October 2024

Job summary

We are looking for a highly motivated, creative and enthusiastic individual with proven clinical, leadership and communication skills. The post holder will be responsible for providing specialist advice and support to locality integrated teams to develop high quality equitable services for patients with identified continence needs.

You will provide specialist clinical skills and knowledge to patients, carers, and staff to support the promotion of continence and management of incontinence.

You will be flexible and adaptable to accommodate a challenging and changing environment, and able to work on your own initiative.

The post holder will -

Ensure the assessment of patients with complex continence needs or who require specialist interventions in a range of community settings including home, care homes, clinics and community hospitals.

Advise and support in the instruction in intermittent self-catheterisation.

Manage, develop, co-ordinate and enhance the role of clinical staff within the team.

Deliver nurse led Level 2 assessments.

Monitor use of products and achieve efficiencies, providing value for money.

Conduct grievance investigations and staff performance reviews.

Analyse a range of facts and complex data, identifying route causes of issues and working with others to resolve them.

Ensure the service maintains operational efficiency at all times through workforce management.

Communicate with patients and service users, written and verbally regarding queries and complaints.

Main duties of the job

Manage admin staff, conduct sickness reviews, investigate grievances and disciplinary cases.
Conduct appraisals for team of staff.
Allocate work to clinicians.
To demonstrate the Trusts values in everything you do in the work environment.
To be responsible in the use and expenditure of the Trusts resources that you utilise.
Delivery of effective healthcare within the organisation.
Establishing effective leadership and communication.
Clinical Governance, reduction of risk, audit and research.
Management and use of resources and information.
All records that the role is responsible for or modifies must be kept up to date and maintained in an accurate and diligent manner.
Operating with quality in everything you do and maintaining a safe environment.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri

Date posted

16 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

001433

Job locations

Beaumont Leys Health Centre

1 Little Wood Close

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE4 0UZ

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Qualifications

Essential

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Qualifications

Essential

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Experience

Essential

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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.