Nursery Nurse Continence Service: Sponsorship Available

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you passionate about supporting children, young people and families to achieve their full potential?

We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic and motivated Nursery Nurse to join our friendly and innovative Children’s Continence Service covering the North Tyneside area.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a specialist nursing team supporting children and young people with bladder and bowel health needs. You will play an important role in delivering evidence-based advice, supporting clinics, and working closely with families, schools and healthcare professionals to help improve health outcomes and quality of life.

The successful candidate will have experience of supporting children withtoilet training and will have had previous involvement in supporting children/ young people with additional and complex needs. You will be passionate about improving outcomes for children and families, have excellent communication skills, and be able to build positive relationships with children, parents, carers, schools and multidisciplinary professionals.

Main duties of the job

As a Nursery Nurse within the Children’s Continence Service, you will play a key role in supporting children, young people and their families to achieve positive bladder and bowel health outcomes. Working alongside Specialist Continence Nurses, your duties will include:

  • Supporting the delivery of continence care across North Tyneside.
  • Undertaking continence product reviews and monitoring ongoing product provision in line with individual needs.
  • Providing practical toilet training advice and support to children, families, schools and nursery settings.
  • Assisting Specialist Nurses in continence clinics.
  • Delivering health promotion and education to encourage healthy toileting habits and independence.
  • Maintaining accurate clinical records and contributing to service data collection and audits.
  • Assisting with the continence product home delivery service by updating patient records, activating orders and ensuring accurate information is maintained.
  • Supporting nursing staff to resolve continence product-related issues, including complex product fitting and sizing concerns.
  • Liaising with a range of professionals including schools, health visitors, community staff and other healthcare teams to ensure coordinated care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • BTEC National Diploma in Early Years. Awarded by EDEXEL or NNEB / Diploma in Childcare & Education (DCE) awarded by CACHE or NVQ Level 3 in Early Years & ~Education awarded by C&G, CACHE,EDEXEL or OU

Desirable

  • awareness or organisations which promote toilet training and knowledge of bladder and bowel problems in children and young people. experience with toilet training

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

  • experience working with children

Desirable

  • Experience working with children with complex /additional needs and/ or children with challenging behaviour

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 22 November 2026

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