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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Registered Nurse to join the Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT) pain service. The MFT pain service is a well-established multidisciplinary team incorporating the roles of highly skilled nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, and pain consultants across the spectrum of acute and chronic pain. 

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS Acute Hospital Trusts in the UK, comprising ten hospitals and a multitude of local, regional and national clinical services. The Trust is a major tertiary referral centre for medical and surgical specialties. Clinical & Scientific Services provides services to support these including the Manchester Adult Inpatient Pain Management Service.

This post will be predominantly based at Wythenshawe hospital, within the outpatient chronic pain service.  However, as the inpatient and outpatient services work closely together, support and advise may be required across all aspects of the service. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have the dual responsibilities of a highly specialist nurse within the field of pain management, as well as act as unit manager for the outpatient and day case services currently based at Wythenshawe Hospital. The successful candidate will work alongside the multidisciplinary team to develop and deliver excellent care for patients experiencing persistent non-malignant pain.   They will require an aptitude for teaching and excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The ideal candidate will have a solid knowledge base and clinical skills in pain management. A non-medical prescribing qualification is essential for this role so the ideal candidate will either currently meet this criteria or have a willingness to undertake this. The post holder will also have operational responsibilities of the  outpatient services and interventional suite, including line management and scheduling duties. They will need to be flexible, self-motivated and be able to work independently as well as part of a team. Their on-going professional development will be actively encouraged and supported.

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.