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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Specialist Nursing  team. We provide a first class service across the North West of England, North Wales and the Isle of Man for babies born with cleft lip and/or cleft palate.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will exercise higher levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care demonstrated through the agreed competency framework. They will provide specialist expertise and advice as a core member of a multidisciplinary cleft team specialising
in the management of children with clefts of the lip and/or palate and their families within the North West, the Isle of Man and the North Wales Clinical Network. The post holder will demonstrate a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, treatment and management of Cleft Lip & Palate patients, associated anomalies, and play a key role in the management of these families throughout the treatment period. They will also  monitor and improve standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues in the provision of skilled professional leadership. The post holder will contribute to clinical governance within the service by understanding audit and research within this specialist field.
They will work independently within the community, the hospital of birth, through acute episodes of admission for surgery, at joint MDT cleft clinics . The post holder  will be expected to be part of an on call service providing out of hours cover for the whole network area.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 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.