Bladder and Bowel Specialist Nurse - Adult St Annes

Job summary

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.

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 management in line with Trust Policies and procedures, National Guidelines, NICE and NMC Code of Conduct.

To work within and across professional and organisational boundaries, liaising with GPs, other healthcare professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies to support the delivery of integrated, individualised and expert bladder and bowel care to a very high standard.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provide health services across the Fylde coast, Lancashire and south Cumbria, area that is home to 1.6 million people.

A range of hospital services is provided to the 352,000 people living on the Fylde coast and the estimated 18 million visitors who visit each year.

The Trust offers community health services to 445,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre and north Lancashire.

The bladder and Bowel team is a specialised service that is clinically driven, patient sensitive and treatment-focused with evidence-based clinical pathways which delivers cost savings and reduce significant risk to patients' health, promote well-being and demonstrate value for money.

Overall, specialist bladder and bowel Teams, will help to improve service quality, patient dignity, patient experience and patient safety, and lead to reduced health and social care costs alongside a reduction in the economic impact and carer burden.

27 July 2026

Agenda for change

Band 6

£39,959 to £48,117 a year

Permanent

Part-time

382-NBC
74-26

Bladder and Bowel Service St Annes Primary Care Centre, Durham Avenue, St Annes, FY8 2EP
, United Kingdom

• 01. To work independently across a multi-disciplinary team demonstrating expert nursing skills and knowledge of Bladder and Bowel care.
• 02. To receive, triage and process complex referrals from a variety of sources
• 03. To provide Bladder and Bowel assessment, treatment, management, support and advice to patients and other professionals across the Fylde Coast.
• 04. To prescribe/deprescribe within scope of practice and competency.
• 05. To use and interpret results of portable ultrasound bladder scanner.
• 06. To undertake pelvic floor muscle assessments and internal /external physical examinations for patients with pelvic floor dysfunction.
• 07. To be competent in male and female catheterisation procedures.
• 08. To undertake nurse-led community Bladder and Bowel clinics, and supported home visits
• 09. Oversee product provision and Bladder and Bowel assessments submitted by other health professionals to the department.
• 10. Maintain clinical responsibility for…