Rheumatology Nurse Band 7 | Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Cheshire Hospitals; Crewe; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust in Crewe seeks a dedicated Registered Nurse for the Rheumatology Team. This position entails providing expert clinical advice and direct patient care while leading specialized practices. Candidates should demonstrate clinical expertise and a commitment to enhancing service delivery. The role involves patient assessments, communication with stakeholders, and ensuring effective service management. Competitive role with a focus on outpatient care and independent caseload management.

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Nurse with interest in Rheumatology Nursing.
• Ability to provide expert clinical advice in all situations.
• Experience in delivering direct patient care.

Responsibilities

• Lead a specialist area of practice, providing expert advice.
• Perform specialist assessment of patients and evaluate care.
• Communicate complex information and refer patients when needed.
• Prioritize patient care and supervise own workload.
• Promote patient and public involvement in service improvements.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Motivational skills

Flexibility

Assertiveness

Patient care delivery

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

An opportunity currently exists within the Division of Medicine and Emergency Care for a committed and skilled individual to join the Rheumatology Team. You must be motivated and committed to providing the standard of nursing care. You must be able to demonstrate how you have used your clinical expertise in the delivery of nursing care. You must be flexible, assertive and confident and have the ability to confidently provide expert clinical advice in all situations.

We are looking for a highly motivated Registered Nurse who has an interest in Rheumatology Nursing. The ideal candidate will be committed to delivering direct patient care, as well as developing and expanding the service.

Responsibilities

• Lead a specialist area of practice, providing expert professional advice to others across the Trust within agreed guidelines and protocols, including medical colleagues and other professional groups when required.
• Perform comprehensive specialist assessment of patients, plan, treat and evaluate care within agreed guidelines and protocols according to evidence-based practice and changing health needs.
• Communicate complex specialist information to medical colleagues and others. Refer patients to appropriate clinicians, in the Trust or externally, within agreed guidelines and protocols, according to assessment of patient need and evidence based decision.
• Prioritise patient care, supervising and allocating one's own workload, monitoring and evaluating effectiveness of care, including discharge of patients, or referring on, within agreed guidelines and protocols.
• Perform specialist clinical skills in the treatment and overall management of patient care, including requesting and interpreting investigations, within agreed guidelines and protocols.
• Provide a comprehensive specialist service, accepting accountability and responsibility for the management and effectiveness of the service on a day-to-day basis.
• Promote patient and public involvement in the improvement of services, and involve patients and carers/relative in the planning and delivery of their care.

MCHFT provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff. An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.

With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022 the Trust became a strategic partner in both Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester ‘places’ and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership caring for a population of over 2.7million.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

The successful candidate will treat patients on an outpatient basis and the role will include travel to our outlying site in order to facilitate the running of the outpatient clinics. You will be required to deliver treatments on an independent basis, managing your own caseload and specialty clinics. There is a patient advice phone service that will also need to be monitored on a daily basis.

This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Nov 2025.