Specialist Nurse - Bladder & Bowel

Overview

This part‑time experienced nurse role promotes best practice bladder and bowel care for Trafford community.

• Manage a designated caseload providing Specialist Nurse‑Led Bladder & Bowel Clinics and home visits across Trafford.
• Offer specialist male and female pelvic floor assessments, investigations and skills, including digital rectal examination, portable bladder scanning, urethral and suprapubic catheterisation.
• Deliver and evaluate specialised individual programmes of care, advising where appropriate on changes to treatment and management.
• Provide specialist clinical advice, support, assessment and interpretation of complex information to deliver best practice bladder and bowel care in line with Trust Policies and Procedures, National Guidelines, NICE and NMC Code of Conduct.
• Support the Bladder and Bowel Team in delivering an educational curriculum in bladder and bowel care to all relevant healthcare professionals.
• 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 care.
• Prevent admission to hospital and facilitate safe early discharge, supporting a culture of continuous quality improvement.

• Level One NMC Registration.
• Ideally V150 nurse prescribing qualification.
• Substantial continence promotion, urology, gynaecology and/or colorectal nursing experience.
• Excellent communicator, enthusiastic, well organised and able to work well under pressure.
• Car travel around various community locations delivering care.
• Available Monday to Friday  with no bank holiday or weekend work.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust delivers specialist services to over 1 million people every year. Their Oxford Road Campus is the largest health academic campus in Europe.