Senior Nursing Assistant - Allergy | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Posting date: | 08 May 2025 |
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Salary: | Not specified |
Additional salary information: | £24,625 - £25,674 per annum (pro rata) |
Hours: | Part time |
Closing date: | 07 June 2025 |
Location: | Manchester, M23 9LT |
Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | 7147414/349-WTWA-7147414 |
Summary
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic health care assistant to join our Allergy Nursing team. With appropriate support and training you will be required to work alongside the specialist nurses in the unit assisting with food/drug challenges, drug investigations, immunotherapy as well as supporting multidisciplinary and nurse-led clinics. You will be actively involved in the smooth delivery of care and support of the specialist team.
• To provide a phlebotomy and cannulation service
• Undertake FeNO and spirometry competencies
• To clerk patients in for day case appointments, including recording vital signs
• Inputting patient information onto electronic database
• Prepare equipment/ rooms prior to commencement of clinic sessions/ day case activity by ensuring the relevant equipment/supplies are available
• To maintain stock levels and ensure stock rotation
• To ensure clean and tidy work place environment
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & 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 30,000 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 Thursday 22 May 2025
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