Saint Mary’s Newborn Services Division is one service across three sites; the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is based on the Oxford Road Campus (ORC) and the Local Neonatal Units based at Wythenshawe and North Manchester General Hospital. We have opportunities for Staff Nurses to join our team in one of our rotational posts, working across sites, providing you with a great opportunity to develop your skills and experience in different clinical settings. We are confident we can provide you with this experience and meet your aspirations by supporting you to work across the NICU and LNUs who care for babies with differing needs.
To be a competent Qualified in Speciality Neonatal Nurse with the relevant qualifications. To be responsible for promoting and implementing practice conductive to the development of safe, high quality patient care. To provide support and guidance to all staff. To have skills and knowledge in a specialised range of complex conditions such as:
respiratory diseases
renal conditions
cardiac conditions.
neurological conditions.
Babies requiring surgical care.
Complex genetic and metabolic disorders
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) screening and treatment
You will be:
Passionate about providing excellent patient care.
A team player who supports colleagues and helps to develop junior staff.
A compassionate nurse with a desire to achieve positive results.
Have experience in change management.
Have experience in working in ICU, HDU, Special care areas.
We expect all nurses to be dynamic and forward thinking with a desire to develop their skills and knowledge. Here at Newborn Services we are passionate about supporting you to further your career and your professional future, we have many exciting career pathways and opportunities available to you as an experienced Neonatal Nurse.
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.
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 atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Dec 2023
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