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Children's Bladder & Bowel Care Nurse - Coventry Special Schools
The closing date is 10 August 2025
Children's Bladder and Bowel Care Nurses - Coventry Special Schools 37.5 hours Term Time Only
This exciting opportunity has been created for a Children's Bladder and Bowel Care Nurse working mainly with children attending Coventry Special Schools.
This exciting post will join a team who are passionate about delivering holistic support within the community setting, to maximise the child or young person's independence and quality of life with bladder and bowel dysfunction.
You will develop excellent working relationships with the community children's nursing team, special school nursing and universal services including health visiting, school nursing, education, acute services, social care and allied health professionals.
You will use local and national guidelines to perform continence assessments for children and young people with bladder and/or bowel symptoms, in a range of school, community, and clinic settings. You will ensure quality service delivery by use of clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis and management plan. You will have continuing responsibility for the assessment, implementation, and evaluation of health care programmes for children and young people within a defined caseload.
Main duties of the job
To be a member of the Children's Bladder and Bowel team; delivering clinical care under the direction of the Band 6 Specialist Bladder and Bowel nurse.
Holistically supporting the child or young person, family and carers, in response to their specific needs to maximise the child or young person's independence and quality of life.
To act as a liaison and resource within the multi-disciplinary and multi- agency teams.
To contribute to the implementation of training programmes, protocols and care pathways within the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust.
To acknowledge the specific cultural needs of children and young people and their families and ensure that care is delivered in a way that is sensitive to such needs.
This post is mainly working with children attending Coventry Special schools but there may be occasions when the post holder will be expected to provide care across Coventry and Warwickshire.
To act as mentor and supervisor of junior staff and carers.Ensuring high quality care supported by evidence-based practice.For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the role and requirements.
About us
You will be joining a friendly and committed service who prides itself on delivering high quality, compassionate care. You will be supported of the senior managerial team, clinical leads and clinical nurse specialists. Your professional development aspirations will be supported with access to ongoing training and clinical supervision.
At CWPT, we put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
* flexible working opportunities
* excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
* salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
* discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
* wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
* staff networks and support groups
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job responsibilities
Registered Childrens Nurse
or Registered Adult or Learning Disability Nurse who can demonstrate experience of working with children and young people.
Must demonstrate safe clinical practice including risk assessment.
Must have good working knowledge of Safeguarding and Child Protection.
Willingness to develop new relevant skills or can demonstrate a range of clinical skills e.g., skills in Bladder and Bowel care assessment and treatment, catheterisation, management of nocturnal enuresis, management of chronic constipation and tissue viability.
Car owner / driver, or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job, insured for business use.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Contact with the service prior to application is recommended. We would love to talk to you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Children's Nurse who holds effective registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
* Registered learning disability nurse or registered adult nurse who can demonstrate extensive experience working with children with disabilities or complex physical health needs
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
* Must have good working knowledge of Safeguarding and Child Protection
* Willingness to develop new relevant skills or have the ability to demonstrate a range of clinical skills eg. skills in Bladder and Bowel care assessment and treatment, catheterisation, management of nocturnal enuresis, management of chronic constipation, tissue viability
* Ability to work across disciplines and agencies.
OTHER
* Car owner/driver, or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job - and be prepared to be insured for business use.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
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