Staff Nurse - Fracture Clinic

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Main area: Fracture Clinic / Trauma Orthopaedics
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent (occasional weekends may be required)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (you may be required to work weekends to suit the needs of the service)
Job ref: 349-WTWA-

Site: Wythenshawe Town, Manchester
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum, Pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/04/:59

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking Registered Nurse to join our welcoming and dynamic team within our busy fracture clinic at Wythenshawe hospital. To be successful you will need to communicate effectively with other departments and disciplines across the MDT. As a team, we are focused on continuous quality improvements and professional excellence and we are looking for someone who shares our visions and values to provide exceptional patient care.

What we need from you:

• Nursing Registration with the UK NMC (please do not apply if you have not yet been allocated your PIN number)
• Willingness to undertake the accredited British Orthopaedic Casting Certificate (BCC) qualification
• Experience in managing a variety of wounds
• Excellent clinical skills
• Commitment to providing excellent standards of care as well as promoting positive patient experiences
• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service which may entail staying late where clinics overrun

Main duties of the job

What the role entails:

• Support fracture clinic, elective clinics and the plaster room
• Wound care- including Application of pico dressings and Vac therapy
• Hours of work will be Monday - Friday between the hours of 8am-6pm with the possibility of weekend and evening working in the future.

What we will provide:

Ongoing support and training

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 .

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification Qualifications

• First Level registration fully registered UK NMC-Registered Nurse
• Diploma in Nursing
• Mentorship or equivalent
• Degree level 6 study

Knowledge

• Knowledge of UK current nursing issues
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance
• Good use of Microsoft Office package and IT skills
• Sound understanding of wound care, including application of Vac therapy and Pico
• Knowledge of complex Orthopaedic dressings

Training and 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
• Experience in wound care in other relevant setting
• Evidence of undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
• Experience in outpatient setting

Skills and abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work as part of a team
• Demonstrates awareness of own limitations
• Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
• Well developed organisational skills
• Dexterity and accuracy in physical skills
• Casting experience/Orthopaedic department experience

Other attributes

• Proactive about learning needs
• Takes initiative in performing duties and role.

Attributes

• Positive approach to work.
• Capacity to work with colleagues at all levels, as part of the team.
• Motivated to personal and professional development of self and other junior colleagues.
• Inspires others and is a positive role model.

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.

Name: Kelly Griffin
Job title: Department Manager
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For informal visits and information regarding the job and our department please contact Kelly Griffin