Bladder and Bowel Specialist Nurse - Adult | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£39,959 - £48,117 per annum
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	St Annes, FY8 2EP
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	24 Jul 2026
Closing date:	23 Aug 2026

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Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, part time experienced Nurse to join a friendly dynamic team to promote best practice bladder and bowel care for the Blackpool and Fylde Coast community.

It is essential that you have a UK driving licence and access to a car for this role.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist(Bladder & Bowel)will have responsibility to manage a designated caseload of patients providing Specialist Nurse-Led Bladder & Bowel Clinics and home visits across the Fylde Coast area. This includes offering specialist male and female pelvic floor assessments, investigations and skills which includes digital rectal examination, portable bladder scanning and will work autonomously demonstrating and maintaining competence at a specialist level.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will have a Level One NMC Registration, ideally a nurse prescribing qualification and substantial continence promotion, urology, gynaecology and/ or colorectal and / or community 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 Clinical Nurse Specialist must be an excellent communicator, enthusiastic and well organised and work well under pressure.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (Bladder & Bowel) is responsible for a personal clinical caseload of patients with complex bladder and bowel continence care needs, ensuring that the care delivered is appropriate for the needs of the patient group. The Clinical Nurse Specialist will provide specialist education, advice, and support to patients their families, and carers, this will include professionals in other agencies, promoting self-management. At a local level, the Clinical Nurse Specialist is also responsible for the delivery of education for bladder and bowel continence care, providing nursing expertise, advice, and support in clinical practice to the multi-disciplinary team both within the clinic and community settings.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will provide specialist clinical advice, support, assessment, and interpretation of complex information to deliver best practice bladder and bowel care, treatment and management in line with Trust Policies and Procedures, National Guidelines, NICE and NMC Code of Conduct.

To work within and across professional and organisational boundaries, liaising with GPs, other healthcare professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies to support the delivery of integrated, individualised and expert bladder and bowel care to a very high standard.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provide health services across the Fylde coast, Lancashire and south Cumbria, area that is home to 1.6 million people.

A range of hospital services is provided to the 352,000 people living on the Fylde coast and the estimated 18 million visitors who visit each year.

The Trust offers community health services to 445,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre and north Lancashire.

The bladder and Bowel team is a specialised service that is clinically driven, patient sensitive and treatment-focused with evidence-based clinical pathways which delivers cost savings and reduce significant risk to patients’ health, promote well-being and demonstrate value for money.

Overall, specialist bladder and bowel Teams, will help to improve service quality, patient dignity, patient experience and patient safety, and lead to reduced health and social care costs alongside a reduction in the economic impact and carer burden.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Toworkindependentlyacrossamulti-disciplinaryteamdemonstratingexpertnursing skills andknowledgeofBladderandBowelcare.

2. To receive, triage and process complex referrals from a variety of sources

3. ToprovideBladderandBowelassessment,treatment,management,supportandadvicetopatientsandotherprofessionalsacrossthe Fylde Coast.

4. Toprescribe/deprescribe within scope ofpractice and competency.

5. Touseandinterpretresultsofportableultrasoundbladderscanner.

6. To undertake pelvic floor muscle assessments and internal /external physical examinations for patients with pelvic floor dysfunction.

7. Tobe competentin male and femalecatheterisationprocedures.

8. Toundertakenurse-ledcommunityBladderand Bowelclinics, andsupportedhome visits

9. Oversee product provision and Bladder and Bowel assessments submitted by other health professionals tothedepartment.

10. Maintainclinicalresponsibilityforclients receivingBladderandBowelcare.

11. Refer patients/clients to appropriate professionals as required providing timely and accurateinformationwhenreferringthem.

12. LiaisewithotherNursingandSocialCareProfessionals,GeneralPractitionersandConsultants, as required, when identifying the optimum course of actionfor Bladder andBowelcare.

13. ActasaNurseAdvisor, supporting otherprofessionalsinclinicalpractice.

14. ToassistintheplanningandprovisionofskilledBladderandBowelcareeducationandtrainingacrosstheFylde CoastHealthandSocialCareeconomy.

15. Toassistintheprovisionofanannualscheduleoftrainingeventsfordisseminationacrossthelocality.

16. Toprovideadditionaltrainingandeducationeventsasdisciplinespecifictrainingneedsarise.

17. Tointerface withpublichealth promotionagenciestopromotehealthinBladderandBowel.

18. ToprovideadhoceducationtothepublicandtoprofessionalspromotingtheBladderandBowelserviceandbeststandardsofpractice.

19. Tocanvassopinionandreviewtrainingneedsregularlyanddelivereducationtomeetidentifiedneeds.

20. Toevaluatealltrainingandeducationeventsensuringanaudittrailoftrainingoutcomesismaintained.

21. Tointerfacewithothereducationandtrainingproviderslocally,regionally,andnationallyto ensurethateducationneeds aremetandbestpracticeinteachingandtrainingisachieved.

22. Keepupdatedwithcurrenttrendsandnewdevelopmentsinclinicalpracticeandtodisseminatebestpractice.

23. As opportunity arises – take an active advisory role in the development of Integrated Bladder and Bowel Services across the ICS in collaboration with multi=professional colleagues to support quality improvements and development of care pathways for patients with bladder and bowel care needs.

24. Organize and chair meetings on a regular basis for operational and service development purposes.

This advert closes on Sunday 9 Aug 2026

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