Job summary
Employer heading
Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for you to join our Emergency Gynaecology Ward St Mary's Hospital at Wythenshawe Hospital, within Manchester NHS Foundation Trust.
Ward F16 is a 15 in patient bedded emergency ward with a designated 4 bedded day case unit delivering an exemplary standard of nursing care to our patients. Emergency patients are received from the Emergency Gynaecology Unit, ED and other neighbouring health care settings.
Our designated day case unit provides urgent theatre for our emergency patients 5 days per week in conjunction with our emergency theatres.
Main duties of the job
You will be an Registered Nurse who is looking for a new challenge within Emergency Gynaecology.
You will have a pivotal role in the team dynamics being responsible to the ward manager. You will deliver gold standard care to patients and their families during their stay in hospital. Your role will be to provide care to patients from admission to discharge, ensuring trust standards are met throughout.
To join us, you will have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will be able to support and contribute to a team approach, have the ability to problem solve, analyze and resolve issues. In addition to this, you must be motivated to develop personally and professionally and have exemplary personal standards of conduct.
Communication skills are paramount in this role to ensure a full holistic approach is given to patient care.
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.
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 [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN Adult
Desirable criteria
- Qualified to function as mentor for pre-registration students
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience
- Evidence of multi-disciplinary/multiagency working
Desirable criteria
- Previous gynae experience
- Experience of clinical audit
- Involvement with IQP
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Effective organisational skills
- Good analytical and clinical decisional making skills
- Awareness of Clinical Governance process
Attributes
Essential criteria
- Motivated to personal and professional development of self and junior colleagues
- Treats colleagues and the general public with dignity and respect
- Capacity to work with colleagues at all levels
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
- Enthusiasm and inspirational skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to recognise limits of own practice
- Able to work under pressure
- Flexible to service need
- Able to manage multiple priorities
- Aptitude to change
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Mulvey
- Job title
- F16 Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 291 5312
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