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Site Community Sites and Wythenshawe Hospital Town Manchester Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum, (Pro Rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 17/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
Do you want to work in a service where we diagnose lung cancer early and save people’s lives?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as part of the expanded Greater Manchester Targeted Lung Health Check programme. This award-winning programme delivers lung cancer screening to people aged between 55 and 74 years old, who have ever smoked in their lifetimes, from mobile clinics in the community.
The post will be mainly based in mobile clinics in the community within the Greater Manchester area, including Wigan, Bolton, and Salford. The role will involve working at different sites throughout Greater Manchester.
Training and induction will be completed at Wythenshawe hospital and at mobile sites (supermarkets and football stadiums) in the community.
Travel payments will be made for any travel completed above home to base mileage.
Also, MFT has lease car options available to successful postholders through the NHS Fleet Solutions car leasing salary sacrifice scheme.
You will receive an enhanced induction and training package and be part of an established team with support for you to thrive in your role and contribute to improved patient care, health, and quality of life.
Positions: - 2 x Full time (37.5 hours) and 1 part time (15 hours)
Main duties of the job
As a Lung Health Check Specialist nurse, you will be responsible for carrying out detailed assessments on patients who attend for lung cancer screening.
Requesting of CT scans for people who are eligible.
Please see Full Job description.
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 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.
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 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’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
* Evidence of relevant post qualification study or equivalent knowledge
Experience
* Nurse – Relevant experience at Band 5 in the relevant setting
* Evidence of working independently
* Participating in audit/patient surveys
* Evidence of managing within a clinical area
* Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary/interdisciplinary team.
* Awareness of relevant national and Local targets/NSF Frameworks
* Evidence of relevant CPD
* Awareness of the Clinical Governance agenda.
* Working with students
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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