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Main area: Breast Grade Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part-time - 30 hours per week (flexible to meet the needs of the service)
Job ref: 349-WTWA-6883658*
Site: Nightingale Breast Unit
Town: Wythenshawe, Manchester
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 Per Annum, Pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
The Nightingale breast unit houses several key services that facilitate a fully integrated ‘one-stop’ diagnostic pathway by offering a state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment service to women and men with breast diseases. The service aims to provide a high-quality, safe, and supportive environment in order to care for patients diagnosed with breast cancer or benign disease, meeting the identified physical and psychological needs. We are looking to appoint 1 x Band 4 Nursing Associate Registrant who is enthusiastic, motivated, flexible, dynamic, and passionate. This clinical role involves providing holistic nursing care in both our Consultant and nurse-led clinics; knowledge of breast care is therefore desirable. The successful candidate will be part of a team of clinical breast nurses who are central to the delivery of high levels of patient care within the multiple breast clinics, which also includes facilitating aseptic procedures within a radiological setting. You will also be expected to manage our daily dressings clinic, assessing and implementing care plans; therefore, knowledge of acute and chronic wounds is essential. You must have the ability to multi-task and prioritise under pressure, working within a large multi-disciplinary team.
If you are passionate about patient care, a great communicator, with excellent leadership and organisational skills, and have the ability to influence change, we look forward to hearing from you.
Main duties of the job
1. You would also be expected to work flexible hours covering evening clinics and weekend work.
2. A calm, diplomatic, and caring approach is necessary, and you must have the ability to deal with the varied and challenging demands of the unit.
3. Manage Nurse Led Clinics which involve Complex dressings clinics and Blood clinics.
4. Managing staff workloads and delegating tasks.
5. Co-ordinating clinics.
6. Assisting with aseptic procedures within clinics and radiology.
7. Problem-solving.
8. Quality improvement and audits.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & 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. 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.
Person specification
Experience
* Auditing
* Quality improvement projects
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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