Junior Sister/ Charge Nurse inManchester inManchester PUBLISHED SUN 5 JAN 2025

An exciting opportunity for experienced neonatal nurses to develop their leadership skills and experience in a Band 6 Junior Sister post.

The post holder will have a specific site base, there are positions available at Wythenshawe and Oxford Road Neonatal units, but staff may be required to work across the MCS if service needs require. There are opportunities to undertake a quality role in an area of interest.

High quality, evidenced based care is the hallmark of our service and we pride ourselves in delivering excellent quality of care along with as positive an experience for families as possible. We provide a cutting edge service and this is your opportunity to influence the experience of infants and families by contributing to the leadership of a strong and dedicated workforce, role modelling positive behaviours, supporting the team to deliver the highest standards of safe and effective care. This post is pivotal within the unit nursing structure.

Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is based on the Oxford Road Campus (ORC) and the Local Neonatal Units are based at Wythenshawe and North Manchester General Hospital. The NICU at Saint Mary's Hospital is a state-of-the-art facility co-located with the maternity unit and Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, renowned for high standards of clinical care, research and education. Saint Mary's is one of three NICU’s in Greater Manchester and as a tertiary unit is the only provider of neonatal surgery and specialist Retinopathy of prematurity treatments. There is a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary working and family integrated care is a central element of the unit culture. This spreads across to our sister units at Wythenshawe and North Manchester, designated as a local neonatal units providing short term intensive, high dependency and special care to families residing in the local areas.

High quality evidenced based care is the hallmark of our service and we pride ourselves in delivering excellent quality of care along with as positive an experience for families as possible. We provide a cutting edge service and this is your opportunity to influence the experience of infants and families by contributing to the leadership of a strong and dedicated workforce, role modelling positive behaviours, supporting the team to deliver the highest standards of safe and effective care. This post is pivotal within the nursing structure.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Louise Ashworth Job title: Matron Email address:

Simone Mason

Senior Sister

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Oxford