Job summary
- Main area
- General Surgery, Lower GI, Stoma Care
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 13.12 hours per week (Over 2 days)
- Job ref
- 318-26-T0211
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
- Town
- Gloucester
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 (pa pro rata if part-time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist Stoma Care, Band 6
Band 6
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the county’s largest employer, we are proud to provide high-quality acute, elective, and specialist services to more than 650,000 people across our county. Our care is delivered across Gloucestershire Royal, Cheltenham General and Stroud Maternity Hospital.
With over 9,000 employees representing more than 95 nationalities, bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. Whether you’re beginning your NHS journey or looking to take the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing heavily in innovation, research, and transformation, with more than 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our hospitals.
We take pride in working as one team, driven by a shared ambition to grow, develop, and continually improve. Every contribution is valued and by combining our collective strengths, we support not only our diverse communities but one another. You can expect a warm, supportive culture and colleagues who are passionate about teamwork, professional development and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring and leadership opportunities to help you progress in your career.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from a comprehensive package that includes flexible working opportunities, generous annual leave, the NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, local discounts, access to on-site nurseries, reduced public transport costs, reward and recognition schemes and a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
Clinical Nurse Specialist Stoma Care, Band 6 (13.12 hours a week)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated Stoma Nurse to deliver evidence based quality care to around 2,500 stoma patients in Gloucestershire. They will act as a resource for registered nurses, students and HCA’s on the wards requiring specialist advise to support and participate in stoma education and teaching.
They will teach patients with newly formed stomas and review long term stoma patients; they will teach parents to care for their children with newly formed stomas.
The role will involve stoma care both in the Acute hospital and the community. The Stoma Care team also operate a telephone help line.
Additional working pattern details: Over 2 days
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will act as a resource and support for nursing teams in care delivery.
They will tech stoma care to patients to promote independence and enhance quality of life.
They will ensure cost effective use of stoma prescription items and evidence the same to the ICB via GP surgeries and Appliance order Line.
They will answer queries raised by the telephone help line and will run community and acute clinics either “face to face” or virtually.
They will regularly review stoma product usage.
Working for our organisation
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 9,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes.
The Stoma Care Team in Gloucestershire provide education and teaching for 2,500 patients who have newly formed or established stomas, the team work in both Cheltenham and Gloucestershire hospitals and in the community.
The Stoma Care team have full access to all the fully accredited masterclasses run in the UK.
The Stoma care team currently operate a 6 day a week service and some Bank holiday working may be expected.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Responsible for assisting with the daily delivery of stoma care, pre and post operatively and for operating community nurse led clinics and performing home visits.
- Responsible for delivery of Stoma Care education programmes both for the development of staff on the wards and also in Care homes.
- Be able to work alongside nursing staff, role modelling high standards of practice whilst assessing, delivering and evaluating patient care. Highlighting any areas of development for team members as required.
- Responsible for the administration of clinical procedures/treatments within Stoma Care, acting as an expert resource for the surgical wards and the Stoma team.
- To effectively input and retrieve patient information from computer based systems, specifically Trak, Mime and EPR.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records.
- To administer medication and treatment within the Procedure for the Ordering, Prescribing and Administration of Medication Guidelines and contribute to the development of speciality PGD’s.
- To carry out patient prescription reviews as required in GP practices and Appliance order Line.
- To deliver safe care within a challenging and changing clinical environment, using equipment and resources as safely and as appropriate.
- Participate in audits and undertake local research relevant to Stoma care.
- To adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and professional code of conduct.
- Provide support for local patient associations.
Additional Contact Details
Caroline Todd (Senior stoma CNS)
0300 422 4363
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- NMC registration
- Appropriate post registration experience with experience in stoma care
- Colorectal or urological experience with experience in Stoma care
- Completion of extra stoma training eg foundation course
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
- Confident and able to work independently
- Demonstrate ability to use clinical reasoning skills
- Have knowledge of research and audit
- Act as a role model and lead by example
- Be able to demonstrate a specialist knowledge of stoma care
Desirable criteria
- Will be required to travel to community hospitals and patient homes.
- Have or be working towards a level 6 qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine Murray
- Job title
- Lead CNS Stoma Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03004226702
- Additional information
Caroline Todd Senior stoma CNS
03004224363
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