Bladder and Bowel Specialist Nurse - Adult

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Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Days to effectively cover the service.) Job
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Site Bladder and Bowel Service St Annes Primary Care Centre Town St Annes Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/08/2026 23:59

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.

We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, part time experienced Nurse to join a friendly dynamic team to promote best practice bladder and bowel care for the Blackpool and Fylde Coast community.

It is essential that you have a UK driving licence and access to a car for this role.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (Bladder & Bowel) will have responsibility to manage a designated caseload of patients providing Specialist Nurse-Led Bladder & Bowel Clinics and home visits across the Fylde Coast area. This includes offering specialist male and female pelvic floor assessments, investigations and skills which includes digital rectal examination, portable bladder scanning and will work autonomously demonstrating and maintaining competence at a specialist level.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will have a Level One NMC Registration, ideally a nurse prescribing qualification and substantial continence promotion, urology, gynaecology and/ or colorectal and / or community nursing experience. This experience will provide you with the knowledge and skills to undertake expert assessment of patient's bladder and/ or bowel symptoms either in a clinic or home setting to deliver and evaluate specialised, individual programmes of care, advising where appropriate on changes to treatment and management.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist must be an excellent communicator, enthusiastic and well organised and work well under pressure.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (Bladder & Bowel) is responsible for a personal clinical caseload of patients with complex bladder and bowel continence care needs, ensuring that the care delivered is appropriate for the needs of the patient group. The Clinical Nurse Specialist will provide specialist education, advice, and support to patients their families, and carers, this will include professionals in other agencies, promoting self-management.

At a local level, the Clinical Nurse Specialist is also responsible for the delivery of education for bladder and bowel continence care, providing nursing expertise, advice, and support in clinical practice to the multi-disciplinary team both within the clinic and community settings.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will provide specialist clinical advice, support, assessment, and interpretation of complex information to deliver best practice bladder and bowel care, treatment and…