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[email protected]Staff Nurse - Cardiothoracic Critical Care Unit
Accepting applications until: 26-Jun-2026 18:00
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 26-Jun-2026 18:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Wythenshawe Hospital
- Address
- Southmoor Road
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M23 9LT
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Includes rotation to night duty.)
Salary
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- CTCCU
Job overview
Cardiothoracic Critical Care Unit is the North West centre for Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, including the VAD (ventricular assist device) programme, an established respiratory ECMO service and as part of our heart failure service we are able to provide cardiac ECMO. It consists of a 26 bedded purpose built Cardiothoracic Critical Care Unit and 5 bedded satellite Post Operative Recovery Unit, combining both level 3 and level 2 care.
As a team, we are committed to delivering the highest standards of care, and encourage and support staff development with our excellent practice education team who provide continuous support throughout.
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We are a fast paced 31 bedded critical care unit. Caring for level 3 and level 2 patients who require critical care due to surgery, trauma, heart failure and many other reasons.
We offer excellent in house training courses for new staff who join the team, as well as continued a staff development with various courses available.
If you would like to develop your career and be part of our exciting development across cardiothoracic critical care service please contact us.
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.
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’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registration
- Registered Nurse Degree or Diploma
Desirable criteria
- Degree level 6 study
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a Critical Care environment is essential
- Ability to supervise and support junior staff
- Experience of working on own and as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability
Knolwedge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of critical care nursing
- IT/ Word Processing
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of clinical audit
- Knowledge of clinical governance
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Well developed organisational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proven ability to problem- solve
- Demonstrates awareness of own limitations
Desirable criteria
- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Nimmo
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 291 4531
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