Specialist Nurse - Children's Bladder and Bowel Service
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Home or remote working
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 25/09/2026
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 role is for a Specialist Nurse within the 0-18 Children's Bladder and Bowel Service, a small team providing assessment, support, and treatment recommendations to children and young people with bladder and/or bowel difficulties. The nurse will use specialist knowledge and advanced assessment skills to deliver evidence-based care, working in partnership with families to achieve continence potential. The role involves close collaboration with primary healthcare, education, and social care services, requiring a flexible and reflective practitioner committed to ongoing development.
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registration
- Teaching and assessing qualification and experience of mentoring students
- Specialist knowledge and experience of working with children who have bladder and bowel difficulties
- Knowledge of national policies relating to children's continence
Desirable criteria
- Study at post graduate level
- Specialist qualification in the management of continence
- Leadership and management experience
- Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of the current public health agenda in relation to children's continence
- Evidence of effective communication skills both written and verbal
- Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously, and experience of managing own workload
- Understanding of information governance and data protection
- Understanding and experience of equality and diversity
- Experience of and contribution to audits
- Experience of working with children who have bladder and bowel issues
- Experience of multi professional working
- Experience of dealing effectively with safeguarding issues
- Ability to adapt service delivery where necessary to recognise cultural differences
- Identifying and participating in service improvement
- Experience of team working
- Experience of working in a community setting
- Current NMC registration
- Teaching and assessing qualification and experience of mentoring students
- Specialist knowledge and experience of working with children who have bladder and bowel difficulties
- Knowledge of national policies relating to children's continence
- Study at post graduate level
- Specialist qualification in the management of continence
- Leadership and management experience
- Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of the current public health agenda in relation to children's continence
- Evidence of effective communication skills both written and verbal
- Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously, and experience of managing own workload
- Understanding of information governance and data protection
- Understanding and experience of equality and diversity
- Experience of and contribution to audits
- Experience of working with children who have bladder and bowel issues
- Experience of multi professional working
- Experience of dealing effectively with safeguarding issues
- Ability to adapt service delivery where necessary to recognise cultural differences
- Identifying and participating in service improvement
- Experience of team working
- Experience of working in a community setting
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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Sirona care & health CIC
Specialist Nurse - Children's Bladder and Bowel Service
The closing date is 25 September 2026
Job summary
The 0-18 Children's Bladder and Bowel Service is a small team of specialist children's nurses, who provide information, assessment, support and treatment recommendations to families, children and young people with a bladder and/or bowel difficulty. We help support parents, children, and young people to make decisions that affect their future health and wellbeing and support them to achieve their continence potential.
The Children's Bladder and Bowel service is an innovative and progressive service, and this role requires a flexible, warm and reflective practitioner committed to ongoing development of their skills and knowledge to maintain the excellent standards of the service.
You will require specialist knowledge, attitude and skills to deliver a service using evidence based practice to ensure quality care, advice and support to locality team members and the wider community. You will use advanced assessment skills to work in partnership with children, young people and families to understand their bladder and bowel needs and to agree appropriate support required to contribute to their long-term outcomes.
You'll work closely with the primary health care team, education services, social care and the independent sector. Above all your
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