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Job overview

The Acute Intensive Care Unit at Wythenshawe Hospital is looking to appoint enthusiastic motivated Band 6 Sister / Charge Nurse to support our expanding nursing team.

The unit provides Level 2 and Level 3 care in a mixed 19 bed critical care unit to over 900 patients per year, and provides care to a wide range of specialties which include: Burns, Thoracic Surgery, General Surgery, ENT, Max Fax, Ortho-plastics, Respiratory,  orthopedics, Cardiology and Urology.

 We are seeking to recruit an energetic, enthusiastic and experienced nurse to provide high standards of care to patients. The successful candidate will be welcomed into our friendly, forward thinking and dynamic team. 

Main duties of the job

Candidates must be team focused, hardworking, and committed to delivering safe high quality care. We require candidates to help us to develop our services, be able to demonstrate their ability to lead a team of nurses, support the management of the unit and support staff within the challenging critical care environment.

Successful candidates require good post registration experience most of which should be within Adult Critical Care, together with a relevant Critical Care qualification. All applicants should be currently working in Critical Care. 

As part of our commitment to your development, we will provide you with plenty of support to progress your career, including training, supported development programmes and post-basic study.

Please note the post is subject to 24hrs internal rotation.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 28,000 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.