Ward Sister/ Charge Nurse - INRU in Manchester inManchester PUBLISHED THU 3 APR 2025 Jump to job information section

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Medicine and Rehabilitation Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
  
  

37.5 hours per week (37.5 and 30 hours per week available) Job ref 349-WTWA-7093939*

Site Trafford General Hospital Town Manchester Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 15/04/2025 23:59

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered RN Adult nurse with experience in caring for neurological patients. Ward 3/INRU is a 35 bedded rehabilitation ward caring for patients with a neurological diagnosis, based at Trafford General Hospital.

Main duties of the job

Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for your patients, you’ll assist the Ward Manager in ensuring that the highest standards of quality care are delivered and maintained at all times. Your confidence, enthusiasm and excellent communication skills will set you apart. And with that in mind, we’ll also look to you to support and guide other junior staff, acting as a positive role model not just for them, but for patients and carers too. As well as that, you’ll drive our core values forward to ensure that pride, respect, empathy, consideration, compassion and dignity underpin everything we do.

You will be supported to develop in the role through an annual appraisal process and a bespoke development programme.

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

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse with NMC registration
• Assessor/ mentor qualification
• Understanding of NHS priorities and targets
• Diploma
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of post registration study
• Management qualification
• Degree
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial experience of working as a band 5 or 6 staff nurse
• Experience of working in neuro background/rehab
• Leadership/leading a team
• Working autonomously
• Working with multidisciplinary team
• Experience of handling confidential information relating to the care of the individual
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience in managing own caseload
• Working autonomously
• Audit / Research experience
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to listen and support when challenges arise
• Planning, organisational and time management
• Analytical and IT skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Skilled in the use of outcome and evaluation measures
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Commitment to own professional development
  
  

Other

Essential criteria

• Motivational
• Team player
  
  

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

• Job description (PDF, 445.6KB)
• personal specification