Metabolic Specialist Nurse | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £39,959 - £48,117 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 May 2026 |
| Location: | Salford, M6 8HD |
| Company: | Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7962042/236-SCO-NM145-26-A |
Summary
In this role, you’ll provide hands‑on patient care on a daily basis, bringing expert knowledge across the full patient journey — from admission through to discharge. Your clinical expertise will actively support the development of best practice, ensuring care is consistently safe, effective, and centred around the needs of each individual.
You’ll offer visible clinical and managerial leadership, guiding nursing and support staff to deliver evidence‑based, patient‑focused care of the highest quality. Working in line with Trust policies and procedures, you’ll take responsibility for maintaining excellent standards while continuously seeking opportunities to improve services.
Using clinical audit, research, supervision, and teaching, you’ll play a key role in monitoring performance and driving improvements in care delivery, ensuring resources are used efficiently and effectively to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.
The post is primarily based within an outpatient setting, with clinics delivered at Salford Care Organisation. The role also includes an outreach element, with travel required to clinics in Bradford and Manchester, offering variety and the opportunity to influence care across multiple locations.
If you thrive in a leadership role, value clinical excellence, and want to be part of a service that truly makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Be Part of Something That Truly Makes a Difference
We’re looking for a passionate and driven professional who wants to grow their expertise while helping shape high‑quality services that change lives.
In this role, you’ll develop specialist knowledge and best practice, while ensuring the health, safety, and wellbeing of yourself and others is always a top priority. You’ll play an active role in improving services and driving quality, championing equality, diversity, and people’s rights at every stage of care.
You’ll work with individuals who have complex and evolving health and wellbeing needs, using your clinical judgement to assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate tailored programmes of support across a varied caseload.
Leadership is at the heart of this role. You’ll inspire and support others, sharing knowledge, shaping new ideas, and leading positive changes in practice. You’ll confidently plan, allocate, assess, and provide constructive feedback to team members, helping them to thrive and deliver exceptional care.
Alongside this, you’ll help ensure the effective and responsible use of physical and financial resources, supporting a service that is both high‑quality and sustainable.
If you’re motivated, compassionate, and ready to take the next step in your career, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.
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.
Learn more about us in ourCandidate Information Pack
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 advert closes on Thursday 7 May 2026
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