Nursing Associate

We are looking for the right person to join an already established Band 4 Nurse Associate team, working with the neonatal nursing team across the MCS in our busy Newborn service.

You must be a team player with exemplary communication and interpersonal skills. You will be a caring, compassionate, skilled and a knowledgeable Nursing Associate, who works well in a busy and fast paced environment. You will be committed to the support and development of self and others and motivated to work collaboratively in order to achieve the highest standards of care for infants and families.

You will have experience in the delivery of the highest quality of care, understanding the essentials of effective and safe care that is delegated to you to provide. You will be able to deliver care in the Special Care areas of the neonatal unit and on the postnatal wards. In addition, you will be enabled to support the safe delivery of neonatal care in conjunction with the Registered Neonatal Nursing team in the Intensive and High Dependency areas of the neonatal unit, with comprehensive education and training.

The Division of Newborn Services is a neonatal Managed Clinical Service (MCS) working across three sites.

We are looking for the right person to join an already established Band 4 Nurse Associate team, working with the neonatal nursing team across the MCS in our busy Newborn service.

This is a highly successful and dynamic service with a reputation for the delivery of high standards of compassionate clinical care, education and research. We want to continue to progress these aspects of our service and want a post holder who shares our vision and will rise positively to the challenges the future will hold.

NICU is based on the Oxford Road Campus (ORC) and the Local Neonatal Units are based at Wythenshawe and North Manchester General Hospital.

The NICU at Saint Mary's Hospital is a state-of-the-art facility co-located with the maternity unit and Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, renowned for high standards of clinical care, research and education. Saint Mary's is one of three NICU's in Greater Manchester and as a tertiary unit is the only provider of neonatal surgery and specialist paediatric services., 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.