Staff Nurse
Job overview
An excellent opportunity has risen to join our outstanding nursing team in the gold accredited Critical Care at Manchester Royal Infirmary. Our Critical Care unit comprise of Adult ITU, Cardiac ITU, HDU and High Care across four units and 62 beds, and cares for patients from multiple disciplines including trauma, post surgical (vascular, head and neck, ENT and HPB) and cardiology at both intensive care and high dependency levels.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit energetic, motivated, enthusiastic and dedicated band 5 nurses to work collaboratively across all units along side our existing team of highly skilled, dynamic and multi-disciplinary professionals.
Successful candidates will be welcomed into our friendly, diverse and supportive team. For experienced nurses previous experience in the intensive care environment (either general our cardiac) is not essential but desirable. Newly qualified nurses with acute care/ITU experience, who are able to demonstrate a strong desire for learning and development within this role will be considered for the post.All applicants will need to demonstrate professionalism and a dedication to ongoing learning and development to achieve the desired standards of critical care nursing.
We offer a highly supportive and motivated working environment with progression, learning and development at it's heart. Any new recruits will be given a fully supported, high quality preceptorship period, with ongoing learning opportunities through study days, one to one and group teaching sessions delivered by our dedicated education team.Following the preceptorship period staff nurses are encouraged and supported to gain their nationally recognised Certificate in Critical Care Nursing.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification.This document provides you with 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 [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- First level registration – Registered Nurse Degree or Diploma
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Knowledge of current nursing issues
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- IT/ Word Processing
Training and Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working on own and as part of a team
- Awareness of clinical Audit
- Ability to supervise and support junior staff.
- Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability.
Attributes
Essential criteria- Motivated to personal and professional development of self and other junior colleagues.
- Satisfactory attendance record
- Positive approach to work Internal rotation to day and night duty and unsocial hours with willingness to be flexible and adaptable.
- Capacity to work with colleagues at all levels
- Open minded, treats colleagues and the general public with dignity and respect.
- Compassionate and Caring.
- Inspires others and is a positive Role Model.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Dexterity and accuracy in physical skills.
- Well developed organisational skills.
- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately.
- Demonstrates awareness of own limitations.
- Proven ability to problem- solve.
- Able to work as part of a team