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Main area: MREH Theatres
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 2
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Early shift, 08:00-16:00 hours, 5 days a week)
Job ref: 349-EAD-6919099
Site: Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
Town: Manchester
Salary: £23,615 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are seeking a flexible and caring individual to join our dedicated team in the theatres at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and help provide high quality care to our patients.
The theatres are open 7 days a week and deliver treatment to patients. We care for patients with various conditions, complex needs, and diverse backgrounds. You will take responsibility for ensuring that the patient environment is fully prepared for the patient to receive care. This requires a flexible, calm approach and the ability to follow direction when needed. You will have the chance to work with a diverse patient group, making the role very rewarding.
You will have:
1. Good communication and interpersonal skills
2. A genuine interest in patient care
3. A friendly, open, empathetic, and compassionate attitude
You will be:
4. Able to relate well with patients, clients, relatives, visitors, colleagues, the multi-disciplinary team, and the wider trust staff
Main duties of the job
To provide support to trained nursing staff in order to deliver a more timely and efficient service as part of the pathway for patients in critical care. The post holder will undertake duties that will allow more effective use of nursing time and will also contribute to the efficient running of the service.
You will take responsibility for ensuring that all medical equipment is clean and well maintained and liaise with the domestic supervisors and staff to ensure cleaning is of a high standard. Waiting areas should be well maintained for patient and visitor use. You will take responsibility for ensuring the high dependency unit has adequate equipment and stock. You will undertake reporting any estates work and requests for patient transport portering services.
In addition, you will be responsible for assisting the team in continuous quality improvement work by undertaking audits on the Department. The role also entails keeping ward information boards up to date, and ensuring friends & family feedback is maintained.
The post holder will also oversee the meal process if patients stay in recovery for an extended period of time.
Working for our organisation
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust 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 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
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 brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve 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 new Green Plan which will set 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.
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’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
* Willingness to undertake professional development
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working in an acute healthcare setting
* Basic computer skills
* Experience of working within a hospitality setting
* Experience of ordering and stock control
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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