Children's Bladder and Bowel Nurse

Roles & Responsibilities

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced nurse to join our Children’s Community Nursing Service as a Children’s Bladder and Bowel Nurse
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This is a highly specialist and autonomous role, responsible for leading the delivery of a paediatric bladder and bowel pathway for children and young people with a range of continence needs. The post holder will work across community settings, providing expert assessment, care planning, and intervention to improve outcomes and quality of life for children and their families.

You will play a key role in delivering safe, timely, and family-centred care, while working collaboratively with multidisciplinary and multi-agency partners including community paediatrics, schools, therapists, and primary care.

You will provide a high quality, advanced, expert and cost effective paediatric bladder and bowel nursing service, primarily focussing on continence issues, to children, young people and their families within the community setting.

Develop and deliver community based paediatric bladder and bowel care that raises awareness, improves care and helps to reduce emergency department attendances, hospital admissions and readmissions with continence issues, such as constipation and its complications.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be an advanced and experienced practitioner within their speciality.

To be responsible for the nursing leadership within the specialty and give support and guidance within the multidisciplinary team, contributing to the high quality care given to children, young people and their families, in accordance with clinical governance. The postholder will ensure delivery and expansion of an expert and advanced nurse- led service through effective interdisciplinary care, utilising clinical and managerial expertise, which will include a review of the effectiveness of treatment.