Specialist Nurse - Bladder & Bowel
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join a friendly and dynamic team, promoting best practice bladder and bowel care for the Trafford community. The post holder will manage a designated caseload of patients, providing Specialist Nurse-Led Bladder & Bowel Clinics and home visits across Trafford. This includes offering specialist pelvic floor assessments, investigations, and skills such as urinary catheterisation and bladder scanning. The role requires working autonomously and maintaining competence at a specialist level, delivering and evaluating specialised, individual programmes of care.
Key responsibilities
- Manage a designated caseload of patients 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, male and female urethral and suprapubic catheterisation.
- Provide specialist clinical advice, support, assessment, and interpretation of complex information to deliver best practice bladder and bowel care.
- Provide high quality best practice specialist bladder and bowel care, support and advice to patients with persistent and/or complex continence problems.
- Promote effective management and treatment of bladder and bowel dysfunction by providing an educational and advisory service for adult patients and others caring for patients with continence problems.
- Work within and across professional and organisational boundaries, liaising with GPs, other healthcare professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies.
Essential criteria
- RGN- Level 1 Adult
- Registered Non-Medical Prescriber [V100/V150] or willingness to complete V150 within one year of start date
Desirable criteria
- Healthcare related degree
- Teaching qualification
- Other relevant post graduate related course e.g., bladder and bowel, continence/ urology/ colorectal course
- Experience of relevant community or bladder and bowel experience
- Evidence of continuous education and professional development
- Excellent organisation & communication skills
- Evidence of nursing experience within area related to bladder and/or bowel care
- Leadership skills
- Experience in the supervision/ support of a junior team member
- Evidence of participation or experience in clinical audit or research
- Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
- Ability to work autonomously
- Role specific skills, e.g., urinary catheterisation, bladder scanning
- IT skills
- Full current driving license and full-time access to licenced road safe vehicle
- Teaching skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Awareness of national and local strategic direction/frameworks related to Bladder and Bowel Care
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
- RGN- Level 1 Adult
- Registered Non-Medical Prescriber [V100/V150] or willingness to complete V150 within one year of start date
- Healthcare related degree
- Teaching qualification
- Other relevant post graduate related course e.g., bladder and bowel, continence/ urology/ colorectal course
- Experience of relevant community or bladder and bowel experience
- Evidence of continuous education and professional development
- Excellent organisation & communication skills
- Evidence of nursing experience within area related to bladder and/or bowel care
- Leadership skills
- Experience in the supervision/ support of a junior team member
- Evidence of participation or experience in clinical audit or research
- Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
- Ability to work autonomously
- Role specific skills, e.g., urinary catheterisation, bladder scanning
- IT skills
- Full current driving license and full-time access to licenced road safe vehicle
- Teaching skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Awareness of national and local strategic direction/frameworks related to Bladder and Bowel Care
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Nurse - Bladder & Bowel
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced nurse to join a friendly and dynamic team, promoting best practice bladder and bowel care for Trafford community.
The post holder will have responsibility to manage a designated caseload of patients providing Specialist Nurse-Led Bladder & Bowel Clinics and home visits across Trafford. This includes offering specialist male and female pelvic floor assessments, investigations and skills which includes digital rectal examination, portable bladder scanning, male and female urethral and suprapubic catheterisation and will work autonomously demonstrating and maintaining competence at a specialist level.
The post holder will have a Level One NMC Registration, ideally a V150 nurse prescribing qualification and substantial continence promotion, urology, gynaecology and/ or colorectal nursing experience. This experience will provide you with the knowledge and skills to undertake expert assessment of patient's bladder and/ or bowel symptoms either in a clinic or home setting to deliver and evaluate specialised, individual programmes of care, advising where appropriate on changes to treatment and management.
The post holder must be an excellent communicator, enthusiastic and well org
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