Bladder and bowel clinical team lead - Rochester, United Kingdom - Medway Community Healthcare

Description

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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

About us

So what else?

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

At this time, MCH cannot fund or support any further nurses who require the OSCE training. Please do not apply if you require this training.

Job responsibilities

Role requirement and person specification

Criteria

Essential

Qualifications, training, knowledge and experience

NMC Registration

Degree Masters 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 post-registration experience

Experience at a senior level in bladder and bowel specialist nursing and continence service provision

Presentation skills

Experience of self-direction

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 patients 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 co-operate 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 non-clinical 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 psycho-social 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 professionals 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

Ability to prioritise workload.

Plans delivery of specialist nursing care, allocation and deployment of staff, coordinates multi agency activities

Physical skills

emails, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint

Use of clinical tools to support clinical assessments and treatments such as bladder ultrasound scanners.

Dexterity and accuracy required for insertion of catheters

Responsibility for patient care

You will be expected to take part in the processes for monitoring and improving the quality of care provided to patients. This includes risk management, complying with and contributing to CQC requirements and clinical audit.

Assesses, develops and implements specialist nursing care programmes; provides highly specialist advice.

Responsibility for policy and service development

Leads the development, implementation and audit of protocols, policies and integrated pathways using current research that facilitate change in practice which improve clinical outcomes and meet the needs of patients and carers.

Financial and physical resources

Joint responsibility for overtime and expense approval.

Responsibility for ordering and maintaining stock, including supervising junior staff with product management and orders.

Human resources

Be responsible for the performance review of community nursing staff which includes

annual appraisal (PDR) and individual development plans. Monitor staff against objectives set, giving feedback regularly via the supervision process.

Assist in the recruitment of staff, appraisal process, risk assessment process and complaints, performance management process.

Assist in clinical supervision and peer review including mentorship to junior colleagues.

Provides clinical leadership to team members.

The organisation is committed to support the health and wellbeing of all its employees. The post holder is required to familiarise themselves with the organisations range of health and wellbeing support, share with their team, and report stress and ill health as early as possible.

Information resources

Database management

Inputs activity onto the recognised MCH database in order to support service development and meet contractual requirements.

Keeps accurate, contemporaneous records and written reports, as required.

Research and development

Take part in clinical research in-line with MCH protocols

Incorporates relevant research findings with practice and participates in MCH approved research programmes.

Freedom to Act

Accountable for own professional actions, manages team and interprets policy

Full JD can be found in attachments

Review of supporitng statement

Essential

Desirable

Experience in bladder and bowel service

Essential

Desirable

Experience of management of staff

Essential

Desirable

MCH Values

Essential