About Eakin HealthcareAt Eakin Healthcare, we put patients at the heart of everything we do. We are a family-owned global medical device company with a proud heritage of innovation and care. We deliver innovative solutions across Ostomy, Respiratory, and Surgical therapies, along with our Respond home delivery service. Founded over 50 years ago, we now have a team of over 700 dedicated people across three UK manufacturing sites, 12 international sales and distribution centres and export to over 60 countries.
Why Join Us?
- Blended Working
- Bonus
- Company car and / or allowance
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28)
- Option to buy holiday days
- Wellbeing Programme
- Health Cash Plan
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
- Referral Scheme
- Long Service Awards
About the RoleThe Respond Healthcare employed Community Stoma Care Nurse (CSCN) will be dedicated to the development of the Stoma Care Nursing service across the Birmingham community and surrounding areas and will provide support to acute hospitals to generate referrals to the Respond service. The purpose of the Respond CSCN is to provide professional and ethical nursing care services to patients by working in partnership with key stakeholders. The CSCN will directly contribute to the growth and success of Respond Healthcare by developing an ethical Stoma Care Nursing Service within the community and supporting NHS acute services whereby community support is required. Through this service the Nurse role will be to ease a smooth transition for patients from Hospital to the community, to support and manage the care of patients in the community following their discharge from hospital, and to perform home visits in line with agreed patient referral pathway models, and to work as an extension of the acute based Teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Working in collaboration with NHS Trust Stoma care Teams to support patient discharges onto Respond following their surgery relative to your speciality, i.e. bowel, bladder or stoma care.
- Working as an extension of the acute stoma care team and support the introduction of the patient pathway of care within the community through patient home visits.
- Recording of patient information on the Respond Consult patient management system.
- Support the groups development of educational programmes within the HCP Network.
- Support the development of patient focus groups within your territory where possible.
- Introduce and maintain appropriate and efficient systems of referral and review systems of documentation.
- Organise workload to take account of priorities of care in meeting the needs of a defined caseload.
- Perform Appliance Use Reviews (AURs) where appropriate in line with company and Department of Health Guidelines.
- Support the promotion of the Eakin Groups high quality, clinically effective stoma care products and accessories.
What We’re Looking For
- Registration on Part 1 of the NMC Register.
- Minimum of twelve months post registration experience in Stoma Care Nursing.
- Must possess an appropriate Stoma Care Qualification or be willing to complete the appropriate courses.
- Ability to work autonomously in the community.
- Full and valid driving licence.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Demonstrate good IT proficiency.
The Company is committed to supporting your continuous professional development and will fund future training and educational needs including prescribing courses and degree courses where appropriate.
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