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Job overview

Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives?

Do you thrive in a team environment? Are you skilled in advanced clinical and assessment skills?

If you’ve answered yes, we’d love you to join our Intermediate Care Team in Central Manchester.

We are looking to recruit an innovative, enthusiastic band 7 Nurse. This is a truly exciting time to join us as we forge even strong links/ relationships across our hospitals and community to further enhance our services. Enabling people to receive rehabilitation and support to regain their independence or plan for their future care needs.

We are an enthusiastic, motivated multi-disciplinary team working in a dynamic, exciting environment, providing both “step down” service to facilitate discharge from hospital and “step up” service to avoid unnecessary admission to hospital.  Embracing these models, we support our Crisis Response teams, city wide hospitals and neighbourhood integrated teams, to ensure that people can access our services when needed.

Underpinning the purpose and approach of our Intermediate care service we support patient’s personal choices, strengths, and ensures inclusion in every stage of their care.

We work with our Manchester control room and city- wide teams to promote timely admissions to Intermediate care, aiming to reduce acquired hospital deconditioning, enabling a person to maintain as much of their independence as possible. 

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a new team member who shares our passion for supporting people requiring Intermediate Care services and our enthusiasm for making a difference.  

The service has both beds in a dedicated Intermediate Care unit and is also resourced to deliver Intermediate Care to 60 - 70 people in their own homes. All staff rotate with in the service, so it is essential that applicants can travel independently.

Clinical Practitioner and so will need excellent clinical assessment skills and will have (or be willing to undertake) Non-Medical Prescribing.

You will work within our multi-disciplinary team and liaise with our colleagues in the acute, community and voluntary partners to ensure admissions into the service and discharges are safe and effective and prevent re-admission.

We pride ourselves on promoting quality improvement initiatives, service development and professional and personal development and as a member of our team you will receive regular supervision and in-service training.  You will be involved in both team projects and wider trust initiatives giving you the opportunity to form close professional relationships with a wide variety of multi-disciplinary team members.

You need to have experience of working in the NHS and possess excellent leadership skills. It would be desirable that you have experience of working in a rehabilitation/ community setting.

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.