Job summary
12 month fixed term/ Internal applicants will be offered secondment
An exciting opportunity has arisen for aBand 7 Bladder and Bowel Team Leader to join the Bladder and Bowel Service, providing strong operational leadership and day-to-day support to staff.
The post holder will provide visible, compassionate leadership, consistently role-modelling Mersey Care values and fostering a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture. This role plays a key part in ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of bladder and bowel services.
While previous experience or knowledge of bladder and bowel care would be advantageous, it is not essential. The primary focus of the role is on delivering effective operational leadership, supporting clinical colleagues, and maintaining high standards of service delivery.
Training and development will be provided to support the successful candidate in developing the relevant clinical knowledge, understanding, and confidence required for the role.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity for either a secondment/ fixed term opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Bladder and Bowel Team Lead within the Sefton Diabetes Service, for a period of 12 months.
The successful candidate will work across Sefton, providing leadership and oversight to services delivering care to patients in Southport, Formby, and South Sefton.
This role requires proven leadership and management experience. The post holder will be expected to demonstrate strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills, with the ability to take initiative and work autonomously to effectively guide, support, and develop the team, while ensuring high-quality patient care.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to gain further leadership experience, contribute to service improvement, and support the continued development of the Sefton Bladder and Bowel Service.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Details
Date posted
18 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Part-time, Job share
Reference number
350-CC7791667
Job locations
5 Curzon Road medical centre
southport
PR8 6LP
Job description
Job responsibilities
. To promote the attainment and maintenance of optimum health of patients who have long term conditions and acute disease management through predictive and proactive case management of an identified caseload of patients.
To formulate care plans that address the expressed health, social and cultural needs of the patient as an individual through working in partnership with the patient, the GP, specialist nurses and other stakeholder providers
To promote patient centred care by integrating and co-ordinating the activities of the patient, relatives and carers, the individual practitioners, and teams in the provision of an efficacious management strategy for managing an individuals long-term condition
To ensure that appropriate information regarding the condition of the patient is known to the GP and other appropriate stakeholder providers, by the development and maintenance of effective systems of inter-agency, inter-disciplinary communications
In liaison with Integrated Community Nursing Teams, Social Services and GPs, provide clinical leadership to nursing teams to enable them to develop approaches that address the needs of patients with complex long-term conditions and acute disease.
Support pathways for smooth transition between primary, secondary, and tertiary care for patients, particularly those who are newly diagnosed or whose symptoms are poorly controlled, by liaison with specialists within primary and secondary care. Making directreferral of patients for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures using the care pathways approach.
Inform the development of policies and procedures relevant to the care of people with long term conditions and acute diseases by co-operating and assisting in research programmes relating to the client group. Valuing the contributions that users of the service can make in reshaping services by developing systems and processes that engage those users meaningfully to ensure services are designed to meet expressed need.
Ensure services are delivered and sustained in line with NICE guidelines/local targets and understand principles of disease management by leading, motivating, educating, and developing colleagues and others.
Promote admission avoidance and early discharge by effective liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
Job description
Job responsibilities
. To promote the attainment and maintenance of optimum health of patients who have long term conditions and acute disease management through predictive and proactive case management of an identified caseload of patients.
To formulate care plans that address the expressed health, social and cultural needs of the patient as an individual through working in partnership with the patient, the GP, specialist nurses and other stakeholder providers
To promote patient centred care by integrating and co-ordinating the activities of the patient, relatives and carers, the individual practitioners, and teams in the provision of an efficacious management strategy for managing an individuals long-term condition
To ensure that appropriate information regarding the condition of the patient is known to the GP and other appropriate stakeholder providers, by the development and maintenance of effective systems of inter-agency, inter-disciplinary communications
In liaison with Integrated Community Nursing Teams, Social Services and GPs, provide clinical leadership to nursing teams to enable them to develop approaches that address the needs of patients with complex long-term conditions and acute disease.
Support pathways for smooth transition between primary, secondary, and tertiary care for patients, particularly those who are newly diagnosed or whose symptoms are poorly controlled, by liaison with specialists within primary and secondary care. Making directreferral of patients for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures using the care pathways approach.
Inform the development of policies and procedures relevant to the care of people with long term conditions and acute diseases by co-operating and assisting in research programmes relating to the client group. Valuing the contributions that users of the service can make in reshaping services by developing systems and processes that engage those users meaningfully to ensure services are designed to meet expressed need.
Ensure services are delivered and sustained in line with NICE guidelines/local targets and understand principles of disease management by leading, motivating, educating, and developing colleagues and others.
Promote admission avoidance and early discharge by effective liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
* Significant experience of leadership & management
* Experience at Band 6 level in community nursing setting
* Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in community care /chronic disease management/long term conditions/palliative, end of life care
* Evidence of collaborative working with multiprofessional colleagues
* Evidence of effective communication across all levels of the organisation and with all stakeholders
* Awareness of current initiatives within the local & National health economy and of applicable guidelines, protocols, and frameworks
* Knowledge and experience of budget management
* Up to date knowledge of current Government and Local agendas and how these translate into local practice
* Evidence of providing professional/clinical leadership at postgraduate level
* Good working knowledge of the clinical governance agenda/National & Local priorities
Desirable
* Research & Development experience
* Experience of managing complaints
Skills
Essential
* Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding
* Ability to exercise critical thinking skills
* Ability to analyse date and present information to various audiences
* Ability to implement programmes or work streams leading to service changes
* Demonstrates up to date evidence based clinical knowledge in relation to community nursing
* Forward thinking able to identify opportunities for improvement in service development
* Motivated - able to motivate self and others to deliver a quality service
* Operational planning and delivery of care for complex caseloads including chronic disease management/Long term conditions/palliative care
* Computer literate - ability to use software programmes designed to maximise the contribution to the post
* Must have access to a vehicle & be able to commute to meet the demands of the role and remain flexible - to meet the demands of the service
Values
Essential
* Continuous Improvement
* Accountability
* Respectfulness
* Enthusiasm
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Strong customer service belief
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Qualifications
Essential
* First level Registered Nurse
* Evidence of Post registration education in related areas
* Master's level study in relevant area of specialist nursing
Desirable
* Practice Teacher willingness to undertake
* Previous management course/qualification
* First level qualification in District Nursing / specialist Practitioners qualification in District Nursing
* Nurse Prescriber V150/300
* Master's degree
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
* Significant experience of leadership & management
* Experience at Band 6 level in community nursing setting
* Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in community care /chronic disease management/long term conditions/palliative, end of life care
* Evidence of collaborative working with multiprofessional colleagues
* Evidence of effective communication across all levels of the organisation and with all stakeholders
* Awareness of current initiatives within the local & National health economy and of applicable guidelines, protocols, and frameworks
* Knowledge and experience of budget management
* Up to date knowledge of current Government and Local agendas and how these translate into local practice
* Evidence of providing professional/clinical leadership at postgraduate level
* Good working knowledge of the clinical governance agenda/National & Local priorities
Desirable
* Research & Development experience
* Experience of managing complaints
Skills
Essential
* Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding
* Ability to exercise critical thinking skills
* Ability to analyse date and present information to various audiences
* Ability to implement programmes or work streams leading to service changes
* Demonstrates up to date evidence based clinical knowledge in relation to community nursing
* Forward thinking able to identify opportunities for improvement in service development
* Motivated - able to motivate self and others to deliver a quality service
* Operational planning and delivery of care for complex caseloads including chronic disease management/Long term conditions/palliative care
* Computer literate - ability to use software programmes designed to maximise the contribution to the post
* Must have access to a vehicle & be able to commute to meet the demands of the role and remain flexible - to meet the demands of the service
Values
Essential
* Continuous Improvement
* Accountability
* Respectfulness
* Enthusiasm
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Strong customer service belief
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Qualifications
Essential
* First level Registered Nurse
* Evidence of Post registration education in related areas
* Master's level study in relevant area of specialist nursing
Desirable
* Practice Teacher willingness to undertake
* Previous management course/qualification
* First level qualification in District Nursing / specialist Practitioners qualification in District Nursing
* Nurse Prescriber V150/300
* Master's degree
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
5 Curzon Road medical centre
southport
PR8 6LP
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Employer details
Employer name
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
5 Curzon Road medical centre
southport
PR8 6LP
Employer's website
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