Specialist Nurse Infection Prevention and Control/Tissue Viability
Accepting applications until: 03-Nov-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 03-Nov-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Wythenshawe Hospital
- Address
- Southmoor Road, Wythenshawe
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M23 9LT
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend working and cross site cover following completion of training period.)
Salary
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum( Pro Rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Infection Prevention and Control /Tissue Viability
Job overview
An Opportunity has arisen for Registered Nurses to apply for a band 6 role within the field of Infection Prevention and Control and Tissue Viability. This is an exciting time to join an innovative and expanding team. Both specialties offer high profile agendas, and working corporately, will allow practitioners to develop skills across a wide range of clinical services. This post is based at Wythenshawe hospital which is part of the wider Infection Prevention Control and Tissue Viability Team working across the acute and community services within Manchester Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will support the team to deliver a 7 day service which will include weekend working and cross site cover following a period of training.
The role will provide an opportunity for a motivated enthusiastic Registered Nurses with an interest in Infection Prevention and Control and Tissue Viability to join the acute team. This is a developmental role where you will gain valuable experience across a wide variety of disciplines in the two specialties.
The post-holders will be supported to develop their skills within the two specialties using a robust education and training program alongside the use of a competency framework. This will support the delivery of evidenced based practice to service users for Infection Prevention and Control and Tissue Viability.
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As a professional role model you will provide direct and indirect clinical care, ensuring the needs of the patient are central to service delivery.
You will monitor and improve standards of care through, supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues.
Consequently the successful candidate will need the ability to travel independently across hospital sites. Please read the job description to understand the main duties of the role.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 at [email protected].
We look forward to hearing from you!
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- NMC Registrant
- Education to Diploma or above
- Relevant professional qualification
- Specialty qualification
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of 1st degree level studies / working towards first degree in health related subject.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 12 months experience at Band 5 practitioner level or above
- Portfolio of evidence demonstrating achievements in practice/clinical speciality
- Evidence of recent continuing personal and professional development, both clinical and managerial
- Experience of delivering education and training to staff, patients, and carers.
Desirable criteria
- Experience within the clinical speciality of Infection Prevention and Control / Tissue Viability.
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Research knowledge and experience.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate complex information to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals both verbal and written
- Demonstrate negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity
- Ability to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
- Possess IT skills including Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
Desirable criteria
- Report writing skills
Attributes
Essential criteria
- Highly developed interpersonal skills
- Confident and articulate.
- Demonstrate Trust values and behaviours and act as a role model to others.
- Ability to travel across all MFT sites.
Desirable criteria
- Car owner / driver
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jennifer Kirton
- Job title
- Matron IPC/TV
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 291 2632
- Additional information
Wendy Morris 07977 593 249
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