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We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Specialist Pelvic Health Team as a NMC Registered Specialist Pelvic Health Nurse Advisor.

You will play a pivotal role in the delivery of continence promotion and management of incontinence supporting clients who are registered with a GP in Staffordshire.

You will be skilled in providing assessments for continence problems, care and support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of treatment plans to overall improve client awareness and continence.

This role will be diverse and you will be responsible to providing this service across a variety of settings including community clinics, residential homes and clients own.

Due to the nature of the role you will need to be able to sufficiently travel across a large geographical area.

With our commitment to improving our work/life balance offer, we will consider requests for flexible working within the limitations of the service.

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You will provide a diagnosis of an individual's continence condition and agreeing courses of action following assessment to address health and wellbeing needs of individuals with the supervision of the Specialist Pelvic Health Nurses.

As part of this role you will also be required to:

• Be skilled in supporting clients who require containment management, to prescribe the appropriate appliances.
•  Maintain and develop skills and knowledge in relation to continence promotion and management, to deliver a range of interventions and set an example of good practice to other team members including skill sharing.
  • Complete a Basic and/ or Specialist Continence assessment (dependent on client need) with clients to formulate, treatment programs, supporting from families and carer’s when appropriate.
  • Evaluate the treatment programs with clients, referring to the Band 6 Specialist Nurses or the Specialist Physiotherapist in the team for complex clients as required. Plans may include the following:
    - Promoting independence/self-management and maintaining safety
    - Assessing pelvic floor strength and teaching basic pelvic floor exercises
    - Bladder retraining
    - Bowel re-training Diet and Fluid advice
    - Bladder scanning Teaching ISC/ supporting patients with ISC
    - Prescribing Containment equipment
    - Prescribing Containment products
    - Improvement in health and wellbeing including mental health Interventions
      in disease/condition management |
    - Prevention and reducing of health inequalities

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping  your communities and in return for this, we will support you by; 

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.