Children's Continence Nurse Advisor

Duties and Responsibilities To provide individualised evidence based clinical assessment, review, and advice (in keeping with NICE guidance and local guidelines), offering treatment options and aged appropriate care to optimise continence for children and young people with/without Special Educational Needs and Disability. To undertake holistic assessment in relation to continence, including requesting information such as bladder and bowel diaries from families and carers. Support toileting workshops, devise and supply individualised toileting advice and care plans. To give clinical advice and support to parents, carers, and education staff to help them understand childhood continence conditions to support their child/young person with advised treatments (such as managing disimpaction regimens and referring back to the prescriber if needed) Be responsible for ensuring timely continence assessment and completion of reports / information requests to support Child in Need / Child Protection
meetings and Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP) procedures. To facilitate / participate in the programme of education to support with the promotion of early identification, treatment, and management of childhood continence issues. To give clinical advice and support to parents, carers and education staff to help them understand childhood continence conditions to support their child/young person. Plans and organises own work including triaging referrals, clinics, administration, linemanagement (if appropriate) and meetings, prioritising work accordingly. Ensure that referrals to other health and social care partners are completed in a timely manner inconjunction with colleagues in the Continence Service and, where appropriate, the multiprofessional team. To assess the need for containment products, following local and national guidance, and have anawareness of the budgetary costs associated with this. Contribute to transition planning with the adult services Communication Ability to
communicate with the Child/Young person of all ages and their families/ carers, utilisinga range of communication techniques and styles to promote continence. Work in partnership with Child/Young person and carers to enable them to make informed choicesabout care and treatment to promote their physical and mental health well-being Complete record keeping, using an electronic patient record system, in line with Trust policy andguidelines supporting effective record keeping. Record incidents in line with Trust guidance and support with learning from incidents within theservice and across the wider Children and Specialist Nursing Teams. Ability to communicate with professionals both internal and external to the Trust to understandand consider how they might support childs / young persons agreed continence care plan for apositive outcome. Network and maintain effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary / multi-agencyprofessionals across primary and secondary care to ensure
appropriate / individualised positivecontinence outcomes are achieved. Develop and deliver training to Childrens Services staff in education, health, social care and otheridentified partners as required. Ensures highly sensitive and complex information is communicated with empathy andunderstanding. Recognises barriers and utilises a range of resources to empower children, young people, theirfamilies, carers, and other professionals to promote continence. Provides clear, non-ambiguous written nursing reports and management plans with the child,young person, their families, and other carers to support Child in Need, Education and HealthCare Plans and other statutory requirements Budgetary Responsibility To assess the need for containment products, following local and national guidance, and have anawareness of the budgetary costs associated with this (attending meetings with containmentproducts suppliers and other relevant meetings) Maintain stock and equipment required for the
childrens continence service clinics to be safe andeffective within budget and ensuring best value for money. People Management Acting as resource for staff supporting the continence caseload (registered and non-registered staff in the community nursing and specialist nursing team) example of supporting staff within the special school nursing team with implementation of toileting plans. To be responsible for facilitating supervision for continence champions in 0-19 and special school services. Maintaining own professional development including clinical supervision in this specialist areaand requirement to take part in appraisal. Development Activity To audit and review processes ensuring that it is following current best practice, to adapt anddevelop processes as appropriate within the continence service. To provide learning environment for students and colleagues through the use of evidence basedpractice