Junior Sister/ Charge Nurse

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative healthcare team at one of the UK's leading hospitals, where you can make a real difference in patient care. As a Staff Nurse in the Emergency Department, you will provide exceptional nursing care while working with state-of-the-art equipment. This role offers excellent development opportunities, a supportive environment, and the chance to be part of a major trauma center. You'll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure efficient patient care and contribute to clinical governance. If you're passionate about nursing and want to thrive in a pioneering healthcare setting, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Registered Adult Nurse with valid NMC registration required.
• Significant post-registration experience in a clinical setting.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise, assess, plan, evaluate, and deliver care to high standards.
• Act as a mentor for junior staff and participate in competency programmes.

Skills

Good written and verbal communication skills

Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks

Supports and contributes to team approaches

Problem solving

Decision making

Negotiation skills

Education

Registered Adult Nurse

Significant post-registration experience

Advanced Life Support (ALS)

Job description

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Main area: Emergency Department
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Rotational)
Job ref: 349-MRI-6923063*

Site: Manchester Royal Infirmary
Town: Manchester
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum, (Pro Rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/02/2025 23:59

Job overview

At Manchester University Foundation Trust, we care for our people as much as our patients, and we’d love you to join us within our Emergency Department at the MRI providing outstanding nursing care.

As a staff nurse at MFT, you’ll be expected to work within the NMC code of Professional Conduct throughout the department in Majors Assessment, Ambulatory Care, our Rapid Assessment Unit (Ambulance Triage), and RESUS, utilizing state-of-the-art equipment to ensure all patients are seen efficiently and effectively, meeting their clinical needs within the 4-hour target. As a major trauma center, we work closely with North West Ambulance Service.

We show our commitment to our teams through excellent development and progression opportunities, starting with a comprehensive Induction programme. We’re proud to nurture and support our nurses to provide the very best care. In return, you’ll deliver our values and nurse with pride, respect, empathy, consideration, compassion, and dignity.

If you want a new start and the chance to nurse in one of the UK’s most pioneering Hospitals, there couldn’t be a better time to join us.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will prioritise, assess, plan, evaluate, and deliver all relevant aspects of care to an agreed and expected high standard. You will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team and contribute to the clinical governance process. Act as a mentor/preceptor to junior staff, with specific responsibility for pre-registration students. Participate fully in structured competency-based programmes, as required while working in all areas of the Emergency Department.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn. 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 created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & drive 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. We’re excited to embark on our Green Plan, which sets out how MFT continues to make healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing 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. You’ll need to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides details about the Trust, our benefits, and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. It also contains critical information you’ll 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. While COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, helpful advice and information are available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website.

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 [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Adult Nurse with valid registration on appropriate part of NMC register (e.g., RN Adult)
• Significant post-registration experience, some of which must be within a relevant clinical setting.
• ALS

Skills

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• 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 the limitation of the role, demonstrating an awareness of own limits
• Able to demonstrate the ability to negotiate and work through problems with patients/children/families and MDT.

Personal Attributes

• Motivated for personal and professional development
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable.
• Open-minded, treating colleagues and the general public with dignity and respect.
• Capacity to work with colleagues at all levels
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour.

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.