Job summary
North Manchester General Hospital is now part of the MFT family of hospitals and supports a 12 bed Critical Care Unit providing services to both elective and emergency patients across the North of the city.
Main duties of the job
Caring for Level 2 and Level 3 patients requiring invasive and non invasive ventilation, inotropic support and dialysis.
We care for our staff through excellent development and progression opportunities starting with a comprehensive induction programme as well as a respected preceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses. For experienced nurses joining our team you will be encouraged to participate and lead on quality improvement initiatives with the focus of improving patient experience. To enhance your skills further, we offer a range of internal and external courses and can facilitate optional rotations to our critical care areas based on the MRI and Wythenshawe sites.
So if you want a new start, there couldn’t be a better time to join us.
About us
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & 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 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 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll 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 youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
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.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll 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 youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
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.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First level registration – (RN Adult)
- NMC Registration
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- Degree level study
- Critical Care Qualification
- ILS
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Knowledge of current nursing issues
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- IT/Word processing skills
- Experience of providing care in an acute setting or for students completion of a critical care placement
- Awareness of clinical audit
- Able to support and supervise others
- Evidence of teaching and assessing skills
Desirable
- Evidence of undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
- Experience in critical care
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to works as part of a team
- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately.
- Supports and contributes to team approaches and working.
- Problem solving – able to analyse and resolve issues on own initiative.
- Decision making within limitation of role, and demonstrates an awareness of own limits
- Able to demonstrate partnership working with patients/children and families.
- Able to demonstrate ability to negotiate and work our
- problems with patients/children/families and MDT.
Personal Attrributes
Essential
- Motivated to personal and professional development of self
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable.
- Open minded, treats colleagues and the general public with dignity and respect.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First level registration – (RN Adult)
- NMC Registration
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- Degree level study
- Critical Care Qualification
- ILS
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Knowledge of current nursing issues
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- IT/Word processing skills
- Experience of providing care in an acute setting or for students completion of a critical care placement
- Awareness of clinical audit
- Able to support and supervise others
- Evidence of teaching and assessing skills
Desirable
- Evidence of undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
- Experience in critical care
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to works as part of a team
- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately.
- Supports and contributes to team approaches and working.
- Problem solving – able to analyse and resolve issues on own initiative.
- Decision making within limitation of role, and demonstrates an awareness of own limits
- Able to demonstrate partnership working with patients/children and families.
- Able to demonstrate ability to negotiate and work our
- problems with patients/children/families and MDT.
Personal Attrributes
Essential
- Motivated to personal and professional development of self
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable.
- Open minded, treats colleagues and the general public with dignity and respect.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
