Role Summary
Applications are invited for a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner with the Bladder and Bowel Care Service in the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you passionate about providing excellent care for your patients? Are you looking for a specialist clinical role in a highly dynamic and expanding service, committed to staff development as well as evidence-based treatment for patients? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated Assistant Practitioner to join our Multidisciplinary team.
About the Role
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role
We believe that everyone should have access to excellent bladder and bowel care, and our service promotes this with holistic assessment and a wide range of treatment options. Working mainly with your designated care homes, you will develop the specialist knowledge and skills to assess and manage incontinence, improving your patients’ quality of life and promoting best practice in this common but often complex and challenging health condition. You will play a key role in delivering the Devon NHS containment pad service, processing continence assessments and ensuring compliance with the pad provision criteria.
You will advise and support community nursing teams with bladder and bowel care, and deliver a range of education and training to care homes, care agencies and community healthcare practitioners. We regularly share knowledge and expertise within our team of nurses and assistant practitioners, and have regular supervision and education alongside our bladder and bowel care colleagues working in North Devon and Torbay & South Devon.
This is a community-based post and you will be required to drive between clinics and care/residential homes and to participate in wider team activities within the Trust both in person and through MS Teams events.
Whilst previous experience of bladder and bowel care would be useful, equally important is your enthusiasm, your high standards and your motivation to be part of a team who care.
Working Pattern: 30 hours per week.
Interview Date: to be confirmed
For more information please contact: Clare Williams, Operations Manager on clare.williams54@nhs.net
Pay: The salary advertised for this position reflects the Agenda for Change 2025/6 rates, inclusive of a 3.6% pay award which will be implemented later this year. If you join before the implementation date, the pay award will be backdated to your start date. Until then, remuneration will be based on the 2024/5 pay bandings (Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers)
This is a fixed term contract for 10 months. For current NHS employees this post could be a secondment opportunity.
As an inclusive employer, the Royal Devon values diversity and is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We believe in fostering a sense of belonging and actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities. We recognise the advantages of having a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.
