Clinical Nurse Specialist

1 month ago


Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity for a registered nurse to join our stroke rehabilitation team on a fixed term contract. We work closely with hyper acute centres across Greater Manchester to ensure patients receive safe, effective, and evidence-based care to ensure maximum recovery following a stroke.

We work together as a large multidisciplinary team, all striving with a shared vision to help our patients recover with maximum independence. The team has embraced the MFT's What Matters to Me, work and use it to ensure we find out what is most important to our patients, get to know them well and support them to be involved in all decisions about their care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assess, plan, evaluate and deliver all relevant aspects of patient care in a caring, compassionate and sensitive manner. They will act as a mentor/preceptor to junior staff, with specific responsibility for pre-registration students. The post holder will take delegated responsibility for the management of the clinical team and the maintenance of high standards of quality patient care on a shift-to-shift basis.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.6bn. We're creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. We bring together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, championing collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.

We've created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and drive research and innovation through the introduction of Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system. We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We're also excited to be embarking on our Green Plan, which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

Person Specification

Qualifications

  • First level registration
  • Registered Nurse
  • Degree or Diploma

Knowledge

  • Knowledge of current nursing issues
  • Knowledge of clinical governance
  • IT/Word Processing

Experience

  • Experience of working on own and as part of a team
  • Ability to supervise and support junior staff


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