Job overview

The Nightingale breast unit houses several key services that facilitate a fully integrated ‘onestop’ diagnostic pathway by offering a state of the art diagnostic and treatment service to women and men with breast diseases. The service aims to provide a high quality safe and supportive environment in order to care for patients diagnosed with breast cancer or benign disease, meeting the identified physical and psychological needs.  We are looking to appoint 1 x  Band 4 Nursing Associate Registrant who is enthusiastic, motivated, flexible, dynamic and passionate.  This clinical role involves providing holistic nursing care in both our Consultant and nurse led clinics, knowledge of breast care is therefore desirable. The successful candidate will be part of a team of clinical breast nurses who are central to the delivery of high levels of patient care within the multiple breast clinics which also includes facilitating aseptic procedures within a radiological setting.  You will also be expected to manage our daily dressings clinic, assessing and implementing care plans, therefore knowledge of acute and chronic wounds is essential.   You must have the ability to multi-task and prioritise under pressure, work within a large multi-disciplinary team.
If you are passionate about patient care, a great communicator, with excellent leadership and organisational skills and have the ability to influence change we look forward to hearing from you.

Main duties of the job

You would also be expected to work flexible hours covering evening Clinics and weekend work.  

A calm, diplomatic and caring approach is necessary and you must have the ability to deal with the varied and challenging demands of the unit.

Manage Nurse Led Clinics which involve Complex dressings clinics, Blood clinics.

Managing staff workloads, delegating tasks.

Co-ordinating clinics.

Assisting with asceptic procedures within clinics and radiology

Problem solving.

Quality improvement and audits

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.