Continence Specialist Nurse

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Are you a passionate and skilled nurse looking to specialise in continence care?

This role plays a pivotal role in improving the quality of life for patients living with bladder and bowel conditions in the community.

As a Continence Specialist Nurse within District Nursing, you will provide expert assessment, advice, and evidence-based interventions for individuals with bladder & bowel conditions within community settings.

Working both independently and collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, you will support patients to maintain dignity, independence, and wellbeing in their own homes or care settings. This post also offers you the opportunity to lead a service improvement project across our community teams.

This is a 12 month secondment position.

Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

• To provide information, training and support, to promote effective patient care and discharge from community nursing services.
• To provide expert assessment of patients in a community environment, including specialist continence assessment
• To act as an information and educational resource to all members of the District Nursing service.

• Lead/deputise a service improvement project.

• To influence the development and implementation of policies, protocols and guidelines relevant to community nursing.

• To audit the quality of continence care provided within the service, benchmarked alongside key national guidelines.

• To improve the quality of continence care delivered, and the experience that patients and their carers receive by leading relevant service development initiative.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the "supporting statement" element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

B6 District Nursing Continence Specialist Nurse (PDF, 384.4KB)

Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)

Name: Helen Squires

Title: Operations Manager

Email: helen.squires@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

Telephone: 07717861984