clinical nurse Chesterfield, England
Job description
An exciting 12-month secondment opportunity has arisen to join the North Derbyshire Children’s Community Continence Service. We are a small friendly team which is the lead provider for the Countywide Continence Service who supports children and young people aged 4-19 years in the community to achieve their continence potential.
We are looking for a Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist in Children’s Community Continence to support and make a difference to children and young people’s incontinence needs.
The successful candidate will be a children’s registered nurse who has a passion for leadership and continence within the community for children’s and young peoples and their families. Applicants need to possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills whilst working independently and as part of a team.
Uses expert levels of clinical decision making through specialist assessment and interpretation of clinical information to support patients and carers who have complex and/or changing physical symptoms, emotional or practical needs.
Overall responsibility for the care of a caseload of patients requiring specialist advice as appropriate, accept referrals from other healthcare professionals and work unsupervised.
Through demonstration of high levels of clinical expertise and practice, work collaboratively with members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), divisional care unit and others to review and plan services which are responsive, cost effective and evidence based.
Provide strong, professional leadership working in partnership to enhance professional standards of care across the service linking in with primary, secondary and tertiary care as appropriate.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated “Good” by the CQC .
We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for the full qualifications, skills and experience required for this post. Full and Part Time positions available.
