Bladder and Bowel Service Nurse
We are looking for a nurse to join our Bladder & bowel Service. This is a NHS Band 5 equivalent role.
What’s the role?
- You’ll be a valued member of the team working within your scope of professional practice to assess, re-assess, pan, implement and evaluate bladder, bowel and/or continence care of a delegated patient caseload/
- You’ll enable the patient or carer to develop the skills to self-manage their condition
The Bladder and Bowel Service is run by Suffolk GP Federation, a not-for-profit organisation. The service ensures that patients are assessed by one of our nurses who will provide treatment and guidance around the management of incontinence.
Is it for me?
We will make sure you are fully inducted and trained; there will be regular constructive supervision in place. Its important to us that you feel safe and supported in your clinical decision making.
- You’d be suited to this role if you have experience in working within a primary or community care setting
- You’ll need experience of caring for patients with bladder, bowel and continence issues
- IT skills are important, you’ll need to be able to use our clinical system (with training)
- It’s important that you can work well as part of a team, being supportive of each other, as well as independently
What we can offer you:
- A strong ethos of flexible working, to help us maintain (or reclaim) that work/life balance
- Agile working, enabling us to work from a variety of bases, interacting with your teams at the most appropriate location
- Innovative teams who strive in forward thinking, with a voice that is heard
- A visible and supportive management team, with operational support that ‘get it’
- Excellent IT teams & support giving us first class equipment and ‘no wait’ responses
- A commitment to personal development, training and leadership opportunities, with service-managed training budgets
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service cover
- Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking
- 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays) on starting, rising to 29 days (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service
- Blue light card employer – Access to the discount service with thousands of discounts online and on the high street
Interested? Have questions? Just wondering? Get in touch with Shirley Carter shirley.carter@nhs.net - we’d love to hear from you.