Ward Sister / Charge Nurse - Acute Medicine

Are you an experienced Registered Nurse that is ready for the next step in your career? If so, we would like to hear from you. We are looking for a forward-thinking dynamic nurse to join us on our acute medical ward (Ward L7). Our chosen candidate will require strong leadership skills to work within our team.

We are a 24-bedded ward, specializing in acute general medicine, diabetes, and endocrine disorders. The ward has patients with a variety of clinical presentations and conditions, ranging from respiratory, gastrointestinal, and cardiology conditions, with patients usually being admitted directly from our Emergency Assessment Unit.

The successful applicant will need to have an abundance of post-registration experience. They will need to be able to work calmly under pressure and lead a team and deputies in the absence of the ward manager. With this exciting opportunity, we are looking for an energetic Nurse to rise to the challenge in this service.

We offer:

• Varied caseload / diagnosis
• Opportunities to supervise staff / students
• Utilize leadership skills
• Variety of settings to treat patients
• Effective team working
• Service development opportunities
• Quality Improvement project

As a large NHS trust, we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate, and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us, you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities, and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience in medicine, with relevant Acute experience
• Awareness of National Standards / Guidelines to the area
• Autonomous decision making
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Highly effective communication - with staff, patients, wider networks
• Good team worker
• Able to demonstrate initiative
• Strong MDT skills
• IT skills applicable to the role

You must be able to motivate staff to achieve high standards of care and possess excellent communication skills to ensure that the aims of the Trust are achieved. If successful, we can offer you support in developing your leadership and management skills to enable you to support the Ward manager and staff to deliver high-quality care in line with the Trust's philosophy of Safe, Clean, and Personal Care.

Applicants are welcome from all nursing specialities. The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, and Salford, to save and improve lives.

We recognize that many people find interviews daunting, and the conventional interview approach of unseen questions often impacts performance on the day. We are therefore piloting sending interview questions to candidates in advance. This vacancy is within one of our pilot areas; therefore, if you are invited for an interview, you will receive your interview questions in advance of your interview date. Feedback on this process will also be requested to help our teams understand and evaluate your recruitment experience.

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible, and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair. We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, all are welcome.

We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]

For posts advertised on a fixed-term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed-term contracts will only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.