Specialist Nurse - Bladder & Bowel

Specialist Nurse - Bladder & Bowel

The closing date is 22 October 2025

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced nurse to join a friendly dynamic team to promote best practice bladder and bowel care for central Manchester 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 central Manchester. This includes offering specialist male and female pelvic floor assessments, investigations and skills which include 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 organised and work well under pressure. You must be able to car travel around various community locations delivering care. The service operates Monday to Friday 08.30-16.30 with no bank holiday or weekend work.

Main duties of the job

The post holder 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 provide high quality best practice specialist bladder and bowel care, support and advice to patients with persistent and/or complex continence problems and develop specialist care packages, working with patients, families and carers.

To 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 including; the elderly, reasonable adjustments e.g., learning difficulties, mental health problems and long-term degenerative conditions.

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.

To prevent admission to hospital and to facilitate safe early discharge from hospital, supporting a culture of continuous quality improvement.

You will support the Bladder and Bowel Team in delivering an educational curriculum, in bladder and bowel care to all relevant healthcare professionals.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn and operates on a scale that offers extensive opportunities. We bring together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, championing collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, offering a wide range of opportunities.

We have created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system launched in September 2022.

We are proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We are also pursuing our Green Plan to advance sustainability in healthcare.

At MFT, we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. It is also important to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that accompanies the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at .

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered Non-Medical Prescriber V100/V150 or willingness to complete V150 within one year of start date
• Teaching qualification
• Other relevant post graduate related course e.g., bladder and bowel, continence/urology/colorectal course

Experience

• Experience of relevant community or bladder and bowel experience
• Evidence of continuous education and professional development
• Evidence of nursing experience within area related to bladder and/or bowel care
• 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
• 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year (per annum, pro rata)