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Main area: Plastic Surgery
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 16 hours per week (occasional weekends when the service requires)
Job ref: 349-WTWA-6983150*
Site: Wythenshawe Hospital
Town: Manchester
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum, (Pro Rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge to make use of excellent wound care knowledge and skills? Would you like to work in a well-renowned regional centre for Plastic Surgery? Then you could join the Plastic Surgery Outpatients team at Wythenshawe Hospital. We are seeking a motivated Registered Nurse ideally with experience in Plastic Surgery or other relevant wound care setting. This is a challenging but rewarding role, therefore you need to be enthusiastic and eager to learn and develop yourself. You will be joining a large, dedicated multi-disciplinary team who are devoted to improving patient outcomes in this specialism.
Main duties of the job
Do you have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, a friendly and approachable nature, and a willingness to learn new skills? Then consider joining the team in the Plastics Outpatient department within the Directorate of Burns and Plastics working across Wythenshawe, Withington, and Altrincham Hospitals.
Our professional and friendly team will fully support you to reach your potential and full support is offered for ongoing personal and organisational development in line with appraisal, individual needs, and service developments.
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.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
* UK fully registered NMC Registered Nurse (Adult)
* Diploma in Nursing
* Evidence of Level 6 Study
Knowledge
* Knowledge of current nursing issues
* Knowledge of clinical governance
* Evidence of IT/ Word Processing skills
* Knowledge of Plastic Surgery
* Knowledge of wound care
Training & 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
* Evidence of undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
* Experience in Plastic Surgery nursing
* Experience in outpatient settings
* Experience in wound care in other relevant setting
Skills & abilities
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Able to work as part of a team
* 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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