We are looking for a Registered Nurse
We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking Registered Nurse to join our welcoming and dynamic team within our busy fracture clinic at Manchester Royal Informary.
To be successful, you will need to communicate effectively with other departments and disciplines across the MDT. As a team, we are focused on continuous quality improvements and professional excellence, and we are looking for someone who shares our visions and values to provide exceptional patient care.
What we need from you:
- Nursing Registration with the UK NMC (please do not apply if you have not yet obtained this)
- Proficient in managing Orthopaedic wounds
- Excellent clinical skills
- Commitment to providing excellent standards of care as well as promoting positive patient experiences
- Flexibility to meet the needs of the service which may entail staying late where clinics overrun
Main duties of the job
What the role entails:
- Support fracture clinic, elective clinics, and the plaster room
- Cast Removal and application of basic casts
- Wound care, including application of pico's and Vac therapy
Hours of work will be Monday - Friday 8am-5.30pm with the possibility of weekend and evening working in the future.
What we will provide:
- Ongoing support and training
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and 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. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'.
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 .
We're looking forward to hearing from you.
Person specification Qualifications
- First Level registration fully registered UK NMC-Registered Nurse
- Diploma or Degree level 6 study
Knowledge
- Knowledge of UK current nursing issues
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance
- Good use of Microsoft Office package and IT skills
- Good sound knowledge of wound care
- Knowledge of complex Orthopedic dressings
Training and Experience
- Experience of working on own and as part of a team
- Ability to supervise and support junior staff
- Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability
- Awareness of clinical audit
- Experience in wound care in other relevant settings
- Evidence of undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
- Experience in outpatient settings
Skills and abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to work as part of a team
- Demonstrates awareness of own limitations
- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
- Well developed organisational skills
- Dexterity and accuracy in physical skills
- Casting experience/Orthopaedic department experience
Attributes
- Positive approach to work
- Capacity to work with colleagues at all levels, as part of the team
- Motivated to personal and professional development of self and other junior colleagues
- Inspires others and is a positive role model
Other attributes
- Proactive about learning needs
- Takes initiative in performing duties and role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Contact Information
Name: Alexandra Beech
Job title: Matron
Email address:
Telephone number:
For informal visits and information regarding the job and our department please contact Alexandra Beech at .