Community Staff Nurse - Out Of Hours

Are you a Registered Nurse wanting flexible hours to fit in with your busy family lives?

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 5 Staff Nurse to work with the Evening Service. 6pm - 12am You can be flexible on the evenings that you work and will be part of a fabulous and supportive Team based at North Manchester General Hospital.

Development opportunities for Band 6 are available also.

You will be responsible for delivering immediate and continuing nursing care to patients within their own homes or clinic setting. You will prioritise, assess, plan, evaluate and deliver all relevant aspects of nursing care to an agreed and expected high standard.

You will work as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team and contribute to the processes that promote patient safety and quality of care inline with clinical governance frameworks.

- Gain competence in clinical skills to enable delivery of quality patient care within the service

-Take an active role in contributing to developing nursing practice

-Maintain effective communication internally and externally to the organisation.

You will be expected to participate fully in their personal development and review process in order to achieve the knowledge and skills identified for this post.

Due to the nature of the role, it is essential that you possess a full driving license and have access to a car.

Main duties of the job

To take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based care for patients.

To provide ongoing nursing care and support to patients and carers, promoting the role of the nurse and clinical excellence.

To identify patients whose conditions become unstable and liaise with doctors and acute services appropriately.

To network with other professionals to co-ordinate a multi-disciplinary approach to care provision.

To be responsible for multi-agency care documentation in line with current practice.

To ensure that patients can make an informed choice about their current and future care needs. Ensure that care is patient centred, and confidentiality is maintained in line with Trust policy.

To prioritise own workload and work autonomously when necessary.

To provide support, guidance, and supervision to junior staff.

To assess the level of ongoing nursing needs for people who may need long term care.

To liaise with the patients GP to provide sufficient information for ongoing primary care to be provided safely and efficiently.

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.