Sister/Charge Nurse - Ward 5 Acute Stroke Unit | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bury, BL9 7TD |
| Company: | Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6155224/236-BCO-NM212-24 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join the nursing team on ward 5 Acute Stroke Unit at Fairfield General Hospital with a vacancy for a Band 6 Sister/Charge nurse.
Recently rewarded with a Green NAAS status, Ward 5 is an award winning stroke service working closely with Salford Royal Hospital to provide a Thrombolysis and Intra Arterial Thrombectomy service, maintaining a Grade 'A' in the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme.
As well as working within the ward environment, This post will require you to undergo training in the acute skills for thrombolysis and thrombectomy to enable you to work within our Emergency Department assessing, diagnosing and treating patients. This requires you to be flexible to work to the needs of the service. This role requires you to work long days, night shifts, weekends and bank holidays.
Our Commitment to you
• A passionate and dedicated team to work with who will go above and beyond to support you and others in providing the best patient care
• An enthusiastic and driven management team that allow you the freedom to be brilliant but won’t leave you unsupported
•Access to in house and external development opportunities
You will be enthusiastic, motivated and committed to wanting to help drive advanced skills within this challenging but exciting environment.
As a professional with extensive knowledge, you will be expected to support junior colleagues and work as a strong team player to ensure the patient gets the best care possible.
It goes without saying that you will be fully dedicated to patient-centred care and you will be willing to work closely with colleagues at all levels to ensure this continues across your department.
We would welcome the chance to meet with you informally, to introduce you to our fantastic team and show you around our department.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website:https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/working-with-us/our-values/
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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