Clinical Nurse Specialist for Bladder & Bowels
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a dynamic and enthusiastic Clinical Nurse Specialist to join the Bladder & Bowel Specialist Service. You will be responsible for implementing the Trust's values, assessing and managing complex continence needs, and providing specialist advice and support to patients, carers, and professionals. The role involves leading and motivating the team, delivering training, and contributing to service redesign. You will develop individual care plans, provide teaching, and initiate management strategies for bladder and bowel dysfunction.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (1st Level Degree)
- Degree level qualification (or working towards)
- Teaching/Mentor qualification
- Leadership Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Coaching Skills
- Significant Post registration experience
- Competent working within a continence environment
- Planning and complex patient management
- Experience of working in a team environment
- Experience of nurse leadership and management
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- Experience in managing complaints
- Experience in service improvement
- Ability to provide supervision and support staff
- Clinical leadership skills
- Must have excellent prioritisation and time keeping skills
- Must be computer literate and have standard keyboard skills
- Teaching, presentation, and facilitation skills to support education
- Personal
- Ability to work independently, lead and be part of a team Ability to influence and adapt to service need and demand
- Ability to be self-motivated
- High level of interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent role model
- Ability to work at pace
- Other
- Must have means of own transport and able to drive in variable weather conditions
- Must be a non-smoker during working hours
- Must be willing to undertake Criminal records Bureau Disclosure to Enhanced / Standard level
- Must be legally entitled to work in this country
- Registered Nurse (1st Level Degree)
- Degree level qualification (or working towards)
- Teaching/Mentor qualification
- Leadership Qualification
- Coaching Skills
- Significant Post registration experience
- Competent working within a continence environment
- Planning and complex patient management
- Experience of working in a team environment
- Experience of nurse leadership and management
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- Experience in managing complaints
- Experience in service improvement
- Ability to provide supervision and support staff
- Clinical leadership skills
- Must have excellent prioritisation and time keeping skills
- Must be computer literate and have standard keyboard skills
- Teaching, presentation, and facilitation skills to support education
- Personal
- Ability to work independently, lead and be part of a team Ability to influence and adapt to service need and demand
- Ability to be self-motivated
- High level of interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent role model
- Ability to work at pace
- Other
- Must have means of own transport and able to drive in variable weather conditions
- Must be a non-smoker during working hours
- Must be willing to undertake Criminal records Bureau Disclosure to Enhanced / Standard level
- Must be legally entitled to work in this country
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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South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Nurse Specialist for Bladder & Bowels
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
Are you looking for a specialist role, join the Bladder & Bowel Specialist Service in implementing the South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust values safe, compassion, effective, inclusive and trusted.
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic clinician who is passionate about patients with continence issues. With health promotion being at the forefront of care delivery we are a service which aims to achieve a positive difference to patients' suffering from bladder and bowel dysfunction.
As a Clinical practitioner you will have proven organisational, management and computer skills as well as being able to lead and motivate the Bladder & Bowel Specialist team in delivering a holistic high quality of care. You will be supporting patients, carers, family members by assessing and developing individual plans of care, providing teaching and initiating management strategies. This would include pelvic floor exercise plans, bladder retraining, and bladder scanning and bowel irrigation, reviewing of plans and liaising with other multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams.
As a clinical role model, you will be responsible for delivering bladder & bowel-based training to our community teams and other stakeholders. We are
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