Continence Nursery Nurse

The Sefton Paediatric Continence service is expanding. The service is looking to recruit a continence Nursery Nurse. The post holder is responsible for providing support to the continence team in the management of children and families, including administrative duties, assessment, and review of continence issues and to provide support and education to children, young people, families and professional involved. The post holder will provide toilet training to children and families open to the service and carry out assessment or reassessments of children who may need continence products. The post holder will lead on the management of these product reviews. The post holder will manage and prioritise their own workload as delegated by the Team Leader or Matron. They will accept delegated assessment responsibility to meet the immediate and ongoing needs of the children, young people and their families. They will work from a range of settings including, community clinics, patient homes and
schools to provide them with the necessary information and advice, following clinical guidance and national recommendations. The post holder will be expected to work under remote supervision.

Main duties of the job

To support a caseload of children under the supervision of the band 7 and 6 nurses.

To assess, plan and provide support to children, young people and carers in toilet training and continence issues.

To provide assessments of continence needs in relation to continence products and order products for children and young people.

Use the agreed National Frameworks to ensure products remain relevant and safe for the children and young peoples needs and they are used appropriately.

To teach and demonstrate the correct use of products and other techniques to optimise the client's functional ability and independence.

Document consultations, observations and clinical interventions in the patient records and discuss with clinicians any concerns.

To work at clinical, educational and domiciliary sites across the Sefton area as required.

As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists. Alongside this is ourInnovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.