Job Overview
An Opportunity has arisen for Registered Nurses to apply for a band 6 role within the field of Infection Prevention and Control and Tissue Viability. This is an exciting time to join an innovative and expanding team. Both specialties offer high profile agendas, and working corporately, will allow practitioners to develop skills across a wide range of clinical services. This post is based in the community but is part of the wider Infection Prevention Control and Tissue Viability Team working across the acute services within Manchester Foundation Trust.
The role will provide an opportunity for motivated enthusiastic Registered Nurses with an interest in Tissue Viability and Infection Control to join the community-based team. This is a development role where you will gain valuable experience across a wide variety of disciplines in the community and acute settings.
The post-holders will be supported to develop their skills within the two specialties, using a robust education and training program alongside the use of a competency framework. This will support the delivery of evidenced based practice to service users for Tissue Viability and Infection Prevention and Control. You may be required to work on the acute sites on occasion to meet the needs of the service. A driving license and access to a car is an essential requirement for this role. Please can you state in your application form how you meet this requirement.
As a professional role model you will provide direct and indirect clinical care, ensuring the needs of the patient are central to service delivery. You will monitor and improve standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues.
Consequently, the successful candidate will need the ability to travel independently across hospital sites. Please read the job description to understand the main duties of the role.
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 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 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. 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.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description and 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.
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 resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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