As a Continence Nurse you will:To provide continence assessments, treatment and management in a clinic setting, patients’ home, residential and nursing homes.To assist and support service development.To support and lead on auditing within the serviceProvide teaching sessions for health and social care colleagues.To work autonomouslyPackage DescriptionAs a Continence Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in Bath and North East Somerset. Bases include St Martin’s Hospital, Keynsham Health Centre, Paulton Memorial Hospital, The Hollies and Chew Medical Centre.You will feel valued as a Continence Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: Salary of £29,970 - £36,483 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditionsFree tea and coffee at your base locationMembership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to youAccess to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest ratesOnline and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counsellingAccess to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning EnterpriseAn open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality CommissionMain ResponsibilitiesSupport the Bladder and Bowel Team Lead in service management, development, and leadership. Contribute to clinical standards, patient education materials, and collaborative care across services. Take an active role in audit, feedback, and service improvement initiatives.Maintain and enhance clinical skills and professional knowledge through ongoing development and in-service training. Uphold national guidelines and best practice standards, including NICE, RCN, and Marsden Manual.Work independently in clinic and remote settings, providing advanced continence assessments and care in a variety of environments. Offer specialist clinical advice and education to healthcare teams, patients, and carers.Engage in effective communication across health and social care networks. Participate in product evaluation and liaise with suppliers to support service delivery. Ensure safe, evidence-based use of equipment and medical devices.Support safeguarding practices and budget-conscious prescribing of absorbent products. Keep accurate records and uphold accountability in all areas of practice.The Ideal CandidateRegistered Nurse with specialist education in bladder and bowel dysfunction. Experienced in gynaecology, urology, and community care, with a strong background in continence assessment, treatment, and management, including the use of absorbent products.Qualified and experienced in teaching and mentoring healthcare professionals, patients, and carers. Demonstrates ongoing professional development and sound knowledge of national continence guidelines.Proficient in physical examinations, including rectal assessments, with strong infection prevention and control practices. Skilled in delivering complex information sensitively and confidently using initiative in both patient care and service development.Brings leadership insight, caseload management experience, and a proactive, collaborative approach. Strong planning and organisational skills, able to support and guide colleagues while contributing effectively to multidisciplinary teams.Excellent communicator with the ability to educate, present, and support safe, patient-centred care.Please see the attached Job Description for the full list.About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
