Bladder and Bowel Specialist NurseNHS

Job summary

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The post holder provides expert, evidence-based continence care across Bexley, linking acute, primary, community, social and voluntary services. Responsibilities include assessing and case-managing complex bladder and bowel needs, developing personalised care plans, performing catheterisation and bladder scanning, maintaining accurate RIO records, and supporting vulnerable patients and carers.

The role provides specialist advice, education and mentorship, contributes to multidisciplinary discharge planning, service development, audit, commissioning and budget management, and supervises junior nurses and administrative staff. It requires effective communication, autonomous decision-making, lone working, regular travel, safe patient handling, and managing clinical, emotional and behavioural risks professionally within relevant guidance and standards.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver evidence-based specialist continence care within community services.
• Provide specialist advice, education and support to patients, the public and healthcare professionals across Bexley.
• Collaborate across primary, secondary and community care to improve continence services through integrated multidisciplinary working.
• Deputise for the Band 7 Team Lead when required.

Job description

The post holder provides expert, evidence-based continence care across Bexley, linking acute, primary, community, social and voluntary services. Responsibilities include assessing and case-managing complex bladder and bowel needs, developing personalised care plans, performing catheterisation and bladder scanning, maintaining accurate RIO records, and supporting vulnerable patients and carers. The role provides specialist advice, education and mentorship, contributes to multidisciplinary discharge planning, service development, audit, commissioning and budget management, and supervises junior nurses and administrative staff. It requires effective communication, autonomous decision-making, lone working, regular travel, safe patient handling, and managing clinical, emotional and behavioural risks professionally within relevant guidance and standards.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care