Job summary
The post holder is responsible for providing support to nursing staff in the management of children and families within Paediatric Continence encompassing clerical, technical and ancillary duties.
Assist nurses with procedures, the post holder will be responsible for the coordination of the continence product provision (this is part of continence support and full training will be provided) and will provide toilet training to children and families who are open to the service where appropriate.
The post holder will receive patients into clinic and provide them with the necessary information and advice as advised by the clinical staff and provide a high standard of direct nursing care ensuring patient dignity and Safeguarding is maintained. Be able to work under remote supervision.
The Paediatric Continence Service provides a wide range of specialities for patients from the St Helens & Halton area. This role is to support the Paediatric service in covering clinics from 09:00 - 17:00. The service provides treatment and coordination for a range of continence conditions including bladder and bowel, night wetting, and day wetting up to 19 years of age.
The post holder must hold a full, valid UK driver's license and have access to their own car to travel between sites across St Helens and Halton.
Please note, this vacancy may close early should a sufficient amount of applications be received.
An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.
Main duties of the job
- To create a child friendly environment by maintaining regular risk assessments, ensuring equipment and toys are clean and in safe working order, panic buttons checked regularly, emergency equipment checked daily, and Department decorated to a child friendly standard.
- To have an understanding of the different emotions and needs of the children attending the department, demonstrating good communication skills and a friendly manner.
- Utilising IT skills ensure patient electronic records are available for consultation and contain relevant information prior to the commencement of the clinic.
- Assist the clinician in joint clinics with any patient procedures and chaperone patients when required ensuring patient privacy and dignity is maintained.
- Give information and advice when appropriate to patients both verbally and written and ensure patients understanding of information and direct patients to other departments when necessary.
- Carry out appropriate patient care after appropriate training.
- At the conclusion of clinics ensure consulting rooms are cleaned and tidied and ensure all necessary documentation is directed to the appropriate department.
- To work at clinical, education and domiciliary sites across Halton and St Helens as required.
- Prepare and ensure all consulting rooms are ready for use prior to the commencement of specific clinics including cleaning rooms as per hospital policy and that all necessary documentation is available for use by the clinician
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
- To create a child friendly environment by maintaining regular risk assessments, ensuring equipment and toys are clean and in safe working order, panic buttons checked regularly, emergency equipment checked daily, and Department decorated to a child friendly standard.
- To have an understanding of the different emotions and needs of the children attending the department, demonstrating good communication skills and a friendly manner.
- Utilising IT skills ensure patient electronic records are available for consultation and contain relevant information prior to the commencement of the clinic.
- Assist the clinician in joint clinics with any patient procedures and chaperone patients when required ensuring patient privacy and dignity is maintained.
- Give information and advice when appropriate to patients both verbally and written and ensure patients understanding of information and direct patients to other departments when necessary.
- Carry out appropriate patient care after appropriate training.
- At the conclusion of clinics ensure consulting rooms are cleaned and tidied and ensure all necessary documentation is directed to the appropriate department.
- To work at clinical, education and domiciliary sites across Halton and St Helens as required.
- Prepare and ensure all consulting rooms are ready for use prior to the commencement of specific clinics including cleaning rooms as per hospital policy and that all necessary documentation is available for use by the clinician.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Arrange, co-ordinate and conduct toilet training, bladder scanning and Urinalysis for children and young people.
- To support the continence team and children with Nocturnal Enuresis when they are using Alarm treatment.
- Document observations and results of clinical interventions, discuss with clinicians as/where necessary.
- Participate in teaching events and workshops in schools, or with other healthcare providers (e.g., 0-19).
- Support other staff and outside agencies with issues involving individual children in their care who having continence issues.
- Work within other settings for example, special schools, children centres, nurseries, homes etc
- Arrange and undertake continence product assessments with the support of the nursing staff.
- Develop resources for continence support for children.
- Ensure that nursing care provided is appropriate and is consistent with clinical guidelines.
- Receiving patients and relatives into clinic, checking patients identity details, completing the Paediatric pro-forma.
- Providing direct technical assistance to the Medical/Nursing staff as and when required.
- To ensure confidentiality of patient information at all times.
- To support trained nursing staff within the department in the delivery of patient care.
- To ensure the privacy and dignity of patients is paramount and not compromised.
- To communicate effectively with staff and patients to ensure that the highest possible standard of care is provided to patients.
- To be caring and competent and to ensure patient safety and well-being is paramount at all times.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure patient records are kept up to date and accurate and recording is done in line with Trust policies and procedures.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
- To support other colleagues and students within the clinics as appropriate
- Support the training and education of parents/carers, care staff, and educational staff in the use of continence containment products and facilitating good practice for toilet training.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
- To commence and participate in research/special projects as directed by the Department manager.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
- To create a child friendly environment by maintaining regular risk assessments, ensuring equipment and toys are clean and in safe working order, panic buttons checked regularly, emergency equipment checked daily, and Department decorated to a child friendly standard.
- To have an understanding of the different emotions and needs of the children attending the department, demonstrating good communication skills and a friendly manner.
- Utilising IT skills ensure patient electronic records are available for consultation and contain relevant information prior to the commencement of the clinic.
- Assist the clinician in joint clinics with any patient procedures and chaperone patients when required ensuring patient privacy and dignity is maintained.
- Give information and advice when appropriate to patients both verbally and written and ensure patients understanding of information and direct patients to other departments when necessary.
- Carry out appropriate patient care after appropriate training.
- At the conclusion of clinics ensure consulting rooms are cleaned and tidied and ensure all necessary documentation is directed to the appropriate department.
- To work at clinical, education and domiciliary sites across Halton and St Helens as required.
- Prepare and ensure all consulting rooms are ready for use prior to the commencement of specific clinics including cleaning rooms as per hospital policy and that all necessary documentation is available for use by the clinician.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Arrange, co-ordinate and conduct toilet training, bladder scanning and Urinalysis for children and young people.
- To support the continence team and children with Nocturnal Enuresis when they are using Alarm treatment.
- Document observations and results of clinical interventions, discuss with clinicians as/where necessary.
- Participate in teaching events and workshops in schools, or with other healthcare providers (e.g., 0-19).
- Support other staff and outside agencies with issues involving individual children in their care who having continence issues.
- Work within other settings for example, special schools, children centres, nurseries, homes etc
- Arrange and undertake continence product assessments with the support of the nursing staff.
- Develop resources for continence support for children.
- Ensure that nursing care provided is appropriate and is consistent with clinical guidelines.
- Receiving patients and relatives into clinic, checking patients identity details, completing the Paediatric pro-forma.
- Providing direct technical assistance to the Medical/Nursing staff as and when required.
- To ensure confidentiality of patient information at all times.
- To support trained nursing staff within the department in the delivery of patient care.
- To ensure the privacy and dignity of patients is paramount and not compromised.
- To communicate effectively with staff and patients to ensure that the highest possible standard of care is provided to patients.
- To be caring and competent and to ensure patient safety and well-being is paramount at all times.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure patient records are kept up to date and accurate and recording is done in line with Trust policies and procedures.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
- To support other colleagues and students within the clinics as appropriate
- Support the training and education of parents/carers, care staff, and educational staff in the use of continence containment products and facilitating good practice for toilet training.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
- To commence and participate in research/special projects as directed by the Department manager.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NNEB/NVQ Level 3 in Children's Care, Learning and Development or equivalent. e.g.CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Child Care and Education or BTEC National Diploma in Children's Care, Learning and Development.
- Educated to GSCE level in Maths or English or equivalent qualification or relevant experience in a Health Care Setting
- Diploma or equivalent appropriate qualification, e.g foundation degree, or NVQ3 Level qual or relevant experience equivalent to diploma level.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of clinical skills required to undertake the role
- Experience of relevant work in childcare
- Knowledge of Safeguarding/Children and Vulnerable Adults procedures
- Be able to work under remote supervision
- Evidence of working within a team
Desirable
- Experience in working within an Outpatient setting.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
Other
Essential
- Motivated individual, keen to develop within the role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NNEB/NVQ Level 3 in Children's Care, Learning and Development or equivalent. e.g.CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Child Care and Education or BTEC National Diploma in Children's Care, Learning and Development.
- Educated to GSCE level in Maths or English or equivalent qualification or relevant experience in a Health Care Setting
- Diploma or equivalent appropriate qualification, e.g foundation degree, or NVQ3 Level qual or relevant experience equivalent to diploma level.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of clinical skills required to undertake the role
- Experience of relevant work in childcare
- Knowledge of Safeguarding/Children and Vulnerable Adults procedures
- Be able to work under remote supervision
- Evidence of working within a team
Desirable
- Experience in working within an Outpatient setting.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
Other
Essential
- Motivated individual, keen to develop within the role
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.
