Adult Bladder & Bowel Care Service Assistant
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Be at the heart of our Community.
Are you a Band 2-3 looking to specialise? Are you looking to join a small and friendly team?
The specialist Adult Bladder & Bowel Care Service for Hertfordshire Community Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Bladder & Bowel Care Service assistant to join the team.
The successful applicant will demonstrate a keen interest in bladder & bowel care. In return we will offer you a comprehensive induction to learn new skills to enable you to support the specialist nurses and administration within the team. A car driver with access to a vehicle for work is essential.
You will gain experience in continence management. You will be involved in conducting assessments with patients in their own homes and Care Homes. This role would be ideal for someone with an interest in fraility and dementia, gynaecology and urology and spinal injury and neurogenic conditions.
You will be working in an estrablished nurse-led friendly and supportive team with opportunities to progress your clinical career.
Job description
o To assess the effect of bladder and/or bowel dysfunction on the individual as well as carers/relatives within the designated remit of the Band 3 grade under the direction of a designated nurse
o To assess the needs for appropriate continence products (e.g. Continence pads; urinary sheaths) including instruction on fitting and use of the products.
o To provide basic advice on lifestyle changes which can have a positive effect of bladder and bowel function.
o To work with care staff in residential homes to enable them to provide excellence in continence care.
o To involve patients, carers and relatives in the planning of bladder and bowel care programmes and encourage self-management where appropriate.
o To be able to communicate with a wide range of patients, carers and relatives on sensitive issues relating to bladder and bowel function in a calm and respectful manner and deal with potentially distressed and occasionally angry patients, relatives and carers in a professional and sympathetic way.
o To work under the direction of the service coordinator regarding the Home Delivery Service for continence products and be able to deputise for some specific service coordinator functions.
o To act as a Delivery Service Helpdesk for the Bladder & Bowel Care Service, giving support and assistance to a range of healthcare professionals and service users and their carers and/or relatives.
o To access patient data using the IT system for the home delivery of continence products when dealing with patient queries.
o To develop and utilise IT skills (word, e-mail, PowerPoint, internet) to improve communication and disseminate best practice.
o To understand the budgetary constraints of the home delivery service for continence products.
Person specification
Essential
Essential
- Good standard of English
- Insight into the needs of patients and carers
- Demonstration of using initiative in career
- Experience in communicating with a wide range of people
- UK driving licence and access to car
- Basic IT skills
Desirable
- Experience of caring for people
- Knowledge of computer systems
About the employer
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