Catheter Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join the community catheter care team in Warrington as a specialist Band 5 catheter nurse.

The post holder will work in the catheter care team to deliver care along agreed clinical pathways both supporting early discharges and preventing hospital admission.

The role will include providing specialised, highly skilled care to patients requiring all aspects of urinary catheterisation care.

They also work with the team leaders delivering support, advice and training to community nurses, in secondary care and to GPs.

The core services hours are 8am-6pm

Main duties of the job

Management of difficult indwelling urinary/supra-pubic & intermittent catheters within the community

Rapid response element to role involves a 2-hour response

Teaching of intermittent catheters to patients in clinic and within own home

Management of (TWOC) service Trial without catheter of Service

Liaising with urology department on a regular basis

Use of Entonox gas for difficult catheters

Clinic & community work involved

To support the training /skills and competencies of other community nurses with difficult catheterisations.

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.

At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community.

They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.

After all, values are about people and they were created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important to them

Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.

P- Person-centred-We are passionate about individual needs and promote independence in the healthcare we provide..

E- Empowered- We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.

O- Open and Honest -We behave in a way that develops relationships based on trust, openness, honesty and respect.

P- Professional-We support our people, so everyone has the right skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.

L- Locally Lead -We are always learning about our communities and show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.

E- Efficient -We use our resources wisely to provide sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.