Specialist Falls Nurse - Community

Job overview

Due to retirement, we are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative Band 6 Nurse to join our well established and integrated Community Falls Service.

This is an excellent opportunity for those passionate about improving the lives of older people at risk of falls. 

The successful applicant will further develop experience and skills in multifactorial assessment and rehabilitation and contribute to Falls Prevention education across Central Manchester.

Applicants should have a keen interest in supporting the nursing provision within our strong multi professional team of specialist Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Rehabilitation Assistants, in addition to the wider objectives of the Integrated Community Rehab Services.

We are a research active team.

We warmly welcome interest from those who reflect the diverse communities we serve, in particular experienced nurses with relevant languages, cultural knowledge or lived experience.

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The role is primarily domiciliary and requires daily travel across a number of locations throughout the day.

• Carry out multifactorial and nursing assessment of older people, many with complex presentations, in their place of residence and other community settings.
• Apply specialist knowledge in the specific area of falls and care of the older person, drawing in clinical knowledge of multimorbidity, polypharmacy and bone health.
• Use knowledge, advanced clinical reasoning and problem solving skills to analyse clinical and non clinical findings to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses in a wide range of complex conditions.
• Proactive case finding to identify hidden or future fallers and others in our population, to minimise the risk of more serious consequences, falls and injuries and to positively influence their long term health, wellbeing and independence in line with the Manchester public health and wellbeing strategy.
• Provide Falls Prevention education across Central Manchester with a range of stakeholders, including residents and family/carers.  This may include talks, open days and bespoke events, group and individual input.
• Deliver a strong educational service around falls and falls management for health and social care professionals, voluntary/third sector groups, primary and secondary care.

Working for our organisation

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.