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Job summary

Main area
Plastics Outpatients Department
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week (occasional weekends)
Job ref
349-WTWA-6245612C
Employer
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wythenshawe Hospital
Town
Manchester
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum, (Pro Rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Sister/Charge Nurse - Plastics Outpatients

Band 6

Job overview

An exciting Band 6 nursing opportunity has arisen in Wythenshawe Burns and Plastics Outpatient Department which offers an extensive range of outpatient services to patients throughout the Greater Manchester area and beyond. Energy, enthusiasm and drive is required to work in this service, which holds clinics for in the Divisions of Burns and Plastics and Trauma and Orthopaedics with interaction from a wide multidisciplinary team including specialist nurses and advanced practitioners, so the opportunities to develop your skills are endless. 

We pride ourselves in offering a high standard of care with an individualised patient approach . We are always striving to improve the way we work and seek out feedback from service users to help shape our service improvements.

Main duties of the job

To succeed, you’ll need to be committed in delivering high quality, patient focused care with pride and respect. You must have  excellent interpersonal skills and be able to provide evidence of personal and professional development.

Applicants must possess a proven clinical and managerial career history at Band 5 or 6 and demonstrate a commitment to effective leadership.  An experience in an outpatient environment is desirable as is a commitment to outpatient service development.

The role will be based in the Wythenshawe  Outpatients Department and and will require some cross site cover at Withington and occasionally Oxford Road . Clinics run five days a week with occasional weekends. Occasionally, staff members are required to support other wards and departments within the directorate. Core working  hours are between 08:00 - 18:00  Monday to Friday. 

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.

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. 

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

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 - (RN(Adult)
  • Relevant teaching qualification
  • Qualified to function as mentor for pre registration students
Desirable criteria
  • Appropriate management or leadership courses.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of 3 years relevant post registration experience as a band 5 or band 6
  • Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice.
  • Evidence of multi disciplinary/multi agency working.
  • previous experience of working in an outpatient setting
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of clinical audit.

Skills and KNowledge

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. IT/word processing skills
  • Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability.
  • Clinically competent in name clinical area/speciality
  • Proven workload management of self and of a others.
  • Proven ability to problem solve
  • Willingness to be flexible and adaptable.
  • Effective organisational skills
  • extensive knowledge of wound management
  • Awareness of Clinical Governance process
  • Experience of absence manager, health roster, RCAs, incident reporting

others

Essential criteria
  • Car owner with full driving liscence

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lindsey Wood
Job title
Department Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0161 291 4898
Additional information

For an informal visit please contact Lindsey Wood or Kathleen Tomlinson on 0161 291 4898 or our emails are [email protected], [email protected]