Staff Nurse

We are looking for motivated qualified nurses to join our diverse, friendly and professional critical care nursing team.

Successful candidates will begin on the intensive care unit and following a twelve month preceptorship period will then rotate across the general adult critical care area's.

Successful candidates will need to demonstrate an ability to develop dynamic critical care nursing skills, across a variety of settings whilst maintaining the highest and safest standards of care for patients who require critical care support.

You will be given a comprehensive preceptorship period and competency pathway, supported by a dedicated team of practice based educators. Once completed, candidates will then complete the Critical Care Skills Institute; Critical Care Course (level 7 )., On each shift you will have specific responsibility for high quality patient care and experience, working directly with patients, their families, care givers and friends within the multidisciplinary team. As such excellent communication skills are an essential and integral part of the role.

Within the Critical Care units patients are nursed either on a 1:1 basis or 1:2 depending on their acuity. All our critical care nurses are trained over time to nurse those patients with the highest acuity that require mechanical ventilation, renal and/or cardiac support. Critical care nurses are expected to develop the skills of clinical analysis to support high quality and responsive patient care.

Manchester Royal Infirmary is a large inner city teacher hospital serving a religiously, ethnically and socioeconomically diverse population, which is reflected in the patients we care for. As a critical care nurse at Manchester Royal Infirmary you will be expected to provide high quality nursing care to all members of our diverse population, whilst having the expertise and resilience to response inemergency and trauma situations with care and compassion, fully supported by a team of experience critical care staff.

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.