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Main area: Jim Quick Transplant Unit
Grade Band: 5
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days, nights, weekends, bank holidays)
Job ref: 349-WTWA-7058828*
Site: Jim Quick, Wythenshawe Hospital
Town: Manchester
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum, (Pro Rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 5 Staff Nurse working on Jim Quick, Transplant Unit at Wythenshawe Hospital. You will be required to work in partnership with a well-established and highly effective multi-disciplinary team, caring for an extremely vulnerable and complex group of patients, with a range of cardiac needs within a tertiary cardiac centre. This job is suitable for candidates who have a full NMC pin.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse who would like a change or a junior nurse who would like to gain experience to join our team on Jim Quick, the heart and lung transplant unit for the north west. Caring for patients with unstable angina, heart and lung failure, and complex cardiac and respiratory problems requiring interventional procedures, additionally we also do heart and lung transplantation.
As a nurse at the Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT), you will benefit from a number of educational programs and career paths. We are committed to the career development of our nurses and will assist you to develop your career in a highly specialized clinical area. This opportunity is ideal for experienced nurses / newly qualified nurses who are eager to expand and progress their nursing practice. On appointment, the successful candidate/s will receive full support in education.
We are looking for individuals with a genuine interest in transplant surgery who are hard-working and passionate about delivering high standards of patient care and are motivated towards maintaining and improving their own skills.
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 and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and 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 and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. 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.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce. 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 resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree or Diploma
* Degree level 6 study
* Teaching Qualification
Experience
* Experience of working on own and as part of a team
* Ability to problem solve and prioritise
* Specific interest in cardiology
* Awareness of clinical Audit
* Experience in relevant area of practice
* Evidence undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
Skills and Abilities
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Proven ability to problem-solve.
* Demonstrates awareness of own limitations.
* Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
* Well-developed organisational skills.
* Dexterity and accuracy in physical skills.
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.
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