Community Specialist Paediatric Nurse Bladder & Bowel Service

To provide the specialist nurse function in the delivery of care for patients who have been referred to the Community Bladder & Bowel Service. To provide high quality patient care and assessments, working with the wider multi-disciplinary team.

To deliver training both formally and informally within the specialist field of paediatric bladder & bowel conditions.

To act as role model ensuring practice is up to date and delivered in a professional manner.

To deputise as required in the absence of the clinical Team Lead to ensure efficient and effective service delivery.

Main duties of the job

Work autonomously to manage own caseload of patients whilst working as part of the multi disciplinary team.

Undertake full patient holistic assessment, examination and clinical history.

Plan specialised programmes of care and provide specialist advice to the multidisciplinary team, patients, relatives and carers.

Ensure patients are placed in the correct treatment pathway and ensure necessary investigations and treatments are organised.

Enable patient choice and involvement, co ordinate patient pathways and liaise across organisational boundaries.

Provide clinical advice in accordance with current evidence based practice, national and local protocols and pathways.

Participate in Nurse led clinics, consultant led clinics (as appropriate) and multidisciplinary team meetings.

Participate in case conferences & meetings in relation to child safeguarding plans, formulating up to date reports to support implementation of plans of care for these children and their carers/families

Ensure patients, families and carers are given appropriate oral and written information regarding planned care

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K).

The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff.

An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.

We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.