Job overview

Evening and night District Nursing team Central Manchester.  He/she will work with patients, families, carers within Central Manchester, working with the integrated neighbourhood teams, to provide high quality specialist nursing care and support for patients in community settings.

He/she will exercise enhanced levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care and ensure all records and documentation are completed and relevant. He/she will demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to work safely in different environments. The post holder will have responsibility, for the management of a designated caseload, He/she will be responsible for the assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within the community setting without direct supervision.

The post holder will support the team leader with innovative clinical management and leadership of the team, mentoring the continued professional development of individual team members and assisting in the continued development of the District Nursing Service as a whole. The post holder will have delegated responsibility for the supervision and day to day management of junior team members.

Main duties of the job

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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.