Job overview
Are you a compassionate, motivated, and forward‑thinking leader? If yes, this role in our B&B Service is what you are looking for. Join our team and help shape a culture where people feel supported, valued, and empowered to deliver outstanding care.
If you leads by example, bring out the best in others, and thrives in a fast paced environment with purpose, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact every day.
In this role you will use your specialist skills in B&B to lead, motivate, and inspire a diverse team to deliver high quality, patient centred services.
We are looking for a leader who genuinely cares about making services better for patients and colleagues. This role will inspire and lead innovation to provide a high quality, forward thinking, cost effective team which meets the needs of our patients in an all age service.
In this role, you will be supported both clinically and operationally, giving you the confidence to lead effectively while continuing to grow in your own practice. You’ll have access to experienced colleagues, structured supervision, and a leadership team who are committed to helping you succeed.
If you’re motivated by people, driven by strong values, and excited to lead a high‑performing community team that delivers care to both adults, children, and young people, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help us deliver exceptional care where it matters most — right at the heart of our community.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for delivering a high-quality nurse-led service to adults and children with bladder and bowel dysfunction. The Team Leader will contribute to the organisation, operational management, and evaluation of the Bladder and Bowel Service, ensuring systems are in place to secure comprehensive service delivery for the local population. They will ensure collaborative working across divisions, with General Practitioners, partner professionals, and other agencies to secure care closer to home and achieve positive outcomes for patients and their families.
The post holder will give expert clinical advice, practice clinically and autonomously, and implement care that requires specialist assessment, knowledge, and clinical skills.
The post holder will have proven leadership skills and be experienced in staff management, multi-agency working and clinical practice development.
Working for our organisation
Established in 2003, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute and community healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.
The organisation puts safety and quality at the heart of everything we do, invests in and develops its workforce, works with key stakeholders to develop effective partnerships and encourages innovation and pathway reform to deliver best practice.
We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.
The Family and Community Care Group provides a supportive environment and provides staff with many professional development opportunities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Provide strong clinical and operational leadership and direction across the service to ensure the delivery of high standards of clinical practice and professional conduct in keeping with best practice evidence, CQC standards, professional codes and guidance and organisational policy and procedures.
2. Undertake clinical assessment and lead the team in delivering clinical care by providing expert knowledge and guidance.
3. Promote and embed the principles of integrated working ensuring close working relationships are achieved with acute services, community nursing services, General Practitioners, and all professional groups/partners involved in patient pathways.
4. Line management for the Specialist Nurses and Administration Manager and responsibility for the whole team.
5. Ensure systems are in place to support staff development, supervision, and effective line management.
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7. Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, delivery, and evaluation of care/interventions.
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9. Monitor and evaluate practice standards and performance whilst proactively and constructively challenging practice that falls below the required standards.
10. To be the budget holder for the service and ensure financial balance. Escalate to senior managers, as appropriate.
11. Provide leadership to clinical team members to support effective clinical decisions, celebrating best practice, and acting on lessons learnt from incidents, complaints, and significant events.
12. Undertake audits and quality improvements, as required.
13. Responsible for the development and delivery of training programs to educate on best practice in bladder and bowel care. This includes working with hospital services, social care, and other NHS organisations.
14. Work with the contracted supplier of continence products and NHS logistics to provide a cost effective and high- quality home delivery service, working within local and national guidelines.
15. Ensure the service meets the standards of the organisations quality and assurance assessment framework.
16. Manage and monitor risks affecting the team in keeping with organisational policy/health and safety legislation.
17. Utilize prescribing skills within scope of practice and competence in keeping with current policy to ensure timely response to patient need, improve their care and ensure efficient and effective use of resources.
Person specification
Qualified nurse
Essential criteria
* NMC adult nurse or childrens/LD nurse
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Post reg experience in Bladder and bowel or relevant speciality
Desirable criteria
* V300
* V100
* Level 7 study
Leadership
Essential criteria
* Experience in staff management
* Service Development
* Clinical experience as a senior nurse
* delivering training
car driver
Essential criteria
* Car driver and access to a vehicle