Job summary
- Main area
- Renal Medicine
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 23.5 hours per week (Over Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 349-MRI-6223522*
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Manchester Royal Infirmary
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced CKD Specialist Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Renal Team as an Advanced Chronic Kidney Care specialist nurse. If you’re looking for career development as a Renal Specialist Nurse working with Renal patients then you're in the right place.
MFT are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual to support and enhance the development of the Renal AdCKD nursing service.
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Renal Team as an AdCKD specialist Nurse. If you’re looking for career development as a Renal Specialist Nurse working with Renal patients then you're in the right place.
MFT are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual to support and enhance the development of the Renal AdCKD nursing service.
We are interested in hearing from nurses who have at least 1 year experience at Band 6 in Renal Medicine. The successful candidate will be highly motivated, aspirational and caring with a clear interest in Renal patient education. They will be able to work within our well established AdCKD nursing team to support Renal patients with a primary focus on Transplantation, Home dialysis therapies and Conservative management. They will be able to support patients psychosocial needs and build confidence and trust. They will be able to work autonomously and make independent decisions whilst contributing fully to the MDT. This is an excellent opportunity to gain further knowledge and experience within this specialty and further develop your clinical skills. There will be opportunities to develop autonomous practice, experiencing high level work and develop specialist skills with support from the Renal Consultants and Specialist nursing team.
Successful candidates will be passionate about the nursing profession and patient care.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 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!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification
- Specialty qualification
- Evidence of Level 2 studies
- Experience of home therapies
Desirable criteria
- Teaching Qualification
- Evidence of Level 3 studies
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum band 6 level
- Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality
- Recent evidence of continuing professional and personal development
- Renal dialysis/home therapies experience
Desirable criteria
- 2 years experience
- Evidence of teaching/providing teaching sessions
Aptitude/Leadership
Essential criteria
- Evidence of proven clinical record
- Maintained development of clinical leadership skills
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
- Able to articulate personal development needs
- Excellent communication skills
- Evidence of involvement in change management
Desirable criteria
- Undertaken leadership programme eg LEO
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Susan Travers
- Job title
- AdCKD specialist nurse manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 276 4440
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