Staff Nurse

Job overview

An excellent opportunity has risen to join our outstanding nursing team in the gold accredited Critical Care at Manchester Royal Infirmary. Our Critical Care unit comprise of Adult ITU, Cardiac ITU, HDU and High Care across four units and 62 beds, and cares for patients from multiple disciplines  including trauma, post surgical (vascular, head and neck, ENT and HPB) and cardiology at both intensive care and high dependency levels.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit energetic, motivated, enthusiastic and dedicated band 5 nurses to work collaboratively across all units along side our existing team of highly skilled, dynamic and multi-disciplinary professionals.

Successful candidates will be welcomed into our friendly, diverse and supportive team. For experienced nurses previous experience in the intensive care environment (either general our cardiac) is not essential but desirable. Newly qualified nurses with acute care/ITU experience, who are able to demonstrate a strong desire for learning and development within this role will be considered for the post.  All applicants will need to demonstrate professionalism and a dedication to ongoing learning and development to achieve the desired standards of critical care nursing.

We offer a highly supportive and motivated working environment with progression, learning and development at it's heart. Any new recruits will be given a fully supported, high quality  preceptorship period, with ongoing learning opportunities through study days, one to one and group teaching sessions delivered by our dedicated education team. Following the preceptorship period staff nurses are encouraged and supported to gain their nationally recognised Certificate in Critical Care Nursing.

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!