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Job overview

We are currently seeking a dynamic and creative nurse with a special interest in Continence, Bladder and Bowel nursing to join our friendly community Bladder and Bowel team to manage a designated caseload of patients which includes Bladder & Bowel Annual Reassessment Clinics, Residential Care and supported care living patients and individual home visits across the South Manchester community.

The candidate will be an autonomous skilled practitioner who will be implementing treatment based on expert clinical practice for people with continence issues and assist other health care professionals providing care in a range of settings. You will need to be confident in delivering education to patients, families, care staff & other professionals and ideally have experience of continence, urology and colorectal nursing.

You must hold a current UK driving license and have full-time access to licenced road safe vehicle to be able to work flexibly and travel across the  South Manchester locality.

Main duties of the job

The candidate will provide specialist clinical advice, support, assessment and interpretation of information to deliver best practice bladder and bowel care, treatment, and management in line with Trust Policies and Procedures, National Guidelines, NICE and NMC Code of Conduct.

The candidate will provide high quality best practice specialist bladder and bowel care, to support and give advice to patients with persistent continence problems and develop specialist care packages, working with patients, families, and carers.

The candidate will promote effective management and treatment of bladder and bowel dysfunction by providing an educational and advisory service for adult patients and others caring for patients with continence problems including, the elderly, reasonable adjustments e.g., learning difficulties, mental health problems and long-term degenerative conditions.

You will work within and across professional and organisational boundaries, liaising with GPs, other healthcare professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies to support the delivery of integrated, individualised, and expert bladder and bowel care to a high standard.

The candidate will aim to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate safe early discharge from hospital, supporting a culture of continuous high quality improvement.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.