Nursing Associate

This is an exciting opportunity 30 hours per week (over 4 or 5 days) role for an enthusiastic Band 4 - Nursing Associate or Assistant Practitioner with an interest in bladder and bowel care to join our small friendly dynamic team based in the South Manchester locality.

You will need to be motivated, organised and have the ability to work flexibly and to be able to travel across the South Manchester locality.

The Nursing Associate/ Assistant Practitioner will have responsibility to undertake continence reassessments for housebound patients to support the integrated community nursing service. They will have responsibility to deliver treatment programmes to provide seamless best practice bladder and bowel advice and support to adults and their families both in their homes and designated care settings with proximal supervision from a registered nurse.

The Nursing Associate/ Assistant Practitioner will function at a higher competency level than that of other Health Care Support Workers, with a responsibility for actively participating as part of the Bladder & Bowel team using theoretical knowledge, relevant practical experience and skills to provide effective high quality evidence-based care.

The Nursing Associate/ Assistant Practitioner will participate in the implementation of formal and informal teaching programmes for patients, carers, nursing and care home staff, students and will act as a resource on the promotion of continence and the management of incontinence.

It is anticipated this role will continue to develop through the acquisition of further skills, knowledge and competencies; to be determined within the Bladder & Bowel team.

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & 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 brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve 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 new Green Plan which will set 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.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

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We’re looking forward to hearing from you