Bladder and Bowel Clinical Team Lead - Rochester, United Kingdom - Medway Community Healthcare CIC

Medway Community Healthcare CIC

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Rochester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you passionate about bladder and bowel care?

If you answered yes, we've got the perfect role for you

We are looking for someone who can provide clinical leadership and operational team management, including the planning, coordination, delivery and evaluation of our Bladder and Bowel service.

You will work collaboratively with all members of the local care pillar supporting staff in clinical care provision.

As an autonomous practitioner, you will take a major role in the advanced specialist assessment and treatment of patients within urinary and bowel dysfunction who may have acute, complex and/or chronic presentation.

You will provide direct care and assessment of complex patients alongside service development and staff progression.

Team lead for the bladder and bowel service.

Clinical expertise and enhanced knowledge in bladder and bowel.

Assessment and review of complex patients in clinic and home environment.

Line management for staff members

So what else?

This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you'll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.

We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.

We'll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.

You'll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The small print

Informal visits can be arranged on request.

We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.

MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.

Role requirement and person specification

Criteria

Essential

Qualifications, training, knowledge and experience

NMC Registration
Degree Master's degree or equivalent experience
Mentorship preparation/Practice Assessor/Practice Supervisor
Promotion of Continence Care (ENB 978) or equivalent
Management qualifications
Completion of advance physical assessment module or willingness to undertake
Extensive and relevant postregistration experience
Experience at a senior level in bladder and bowel specialist nursing and continence service provision
Presentation skills
Experience of selfdirection
Evaluation and clinical audit
Clinical skills relating to continence
Leadership skills, organisational skills and teaching skills
Experience as an appraiser and in clinical supervision
Ability to relate theory to practice, with a knowledge and understanding of the principles of adult protection
Ability to work with a range of healthcare professionals and be flexible to cover service needs
Awareness of any changes in NHS provision

Communication skills

Communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information about patient's conditions to multi-disciplinary team colleagues to ensure effective delivery of patient treatments; barriers to understanding.

Communicates highly sensitive, confidential information concerning patients/clients requiring empathy, persuasion and reassurance.
Work collaboratively, maintaining professional dialogue, with the service leads in SCT and other organisations on a range of bladder and bowel conditions plus related healthcare and/or social issues.

Analytical and judgemental skills

The post holder must cooperate with carrying out risk assessments and must adhere to safe systems of work. This includes understanding and adhering to the reporting procedures for clinical and nonclinical incidents/near misses. Employees must take a proactive role in contributing to risk identification and management and be responsive to lessons learned from incidents and near misses.
Use advanced skills and expert knowledge to assess the physical and psychosocial needs of a defined client group, instigating therapeutic care plans and treatments based on the best available evidence in order to improve health outcomes.
Negotiate and agree with the patient, carers and other professional's individual roles and responsibilities with actions to be taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring onto other services or professionals as appropriate. This will include participating in meetings/case conferences in response to the needs of the individual.

Planning and organisational skills