Band 6 Bladder & Bowel Clinical Specialist

The Specialist Clinician will work with theBladder and Bowel Service and will assist in shaping the future delivery of Bladder and Bowel care and treatment across Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust. They will undertake the clinical assessment, supervised diagnosis, planning, implementation and treatment of patients with bladder and bowel dysfunction and evaluate individualized programmes of care for patients with mild to moderate bladder and bowel care needs They will be clinically supported in the management of patients with complex benign and neurological bladder and bowel dysfunction. They will support and guide patients, carer's, relatives and fellow health care professionals with fundamental components of bladder and bowel dysfunction treatment and management and will be confident and competent in providing information, advice and psychological support. They will be required to take responsibility for prioritizing their own workload and caseload along with identifying and reporting areas of risk management concern. The post holder will support the Clinical Team Leaders and Team in all aspects of service delivery, development and training and play an active role in the implementation of standards and associated national and trust guidelines.,

• Make a differential diagnoses
• Assess, treat and evaluate a variety of Bladder and Bowel dysfunctions
• Assimilate and interpret with support clinical findings to make appropriate decisions in relationship to diagnosis and treatment of dysfunction
• Set appropriate treatment goals in collaboration with the patient
• Set appropriate treatment goals with due regard to NICE guidelines
• Assess the condition of skin and refer to tissues viability team as appropriate
• Perform vaginal examination and teaching of pelvic floor exercises including use of biofeedback and electrostimulation.
• Perform bladder sonography were required to establish presence of retention / manage side effects of drug therapy.
• Teach self catheterisation to patients and carers if required
• Teach and support patients and carers with rectal irrigation and bowel management regimes.
• Prescribe appropriate medication to patients requiring treatment with anticholinergic therapies, antibiotic treatment.
• Implement skin care measures to prevent infection and maintain integrity of the patient's skin
• Implement and monitor agreed protocols developed for rapid and effective treatment of acute and recurrent urinary tract infections.
• Carry out female, male and suprapubic catheterisation when patient condition requires this.
  
  Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.