Community Staff Nurse (Treatment Room) in Ashton in Makerfield

We are currently looking to recruit enthusiastic and motivated qualified nurses to join the Treatment Room Nursing Team to cover all areas within the Wigan, Ashton and Leigh locality. Community experience desired but not essential as full training will be given. We offer an excellent preceptorship programme supported by our education department. We also promote and support professional development with many training opportunities available.

The successful candidates must be able to travel independently across Trust. The post is community based and post holders must be able to attend multiple appointments punctually every day whilst transporting all required equipment. Appropriate vehicle insurance will be required. We have a full time hours position (37.5 hours) working across a 7 day week. Active/pending NMC registration is required for this post. Advert will close once sufficient quality applications are received.

Main duties of the job

The primary function of the role is to work independently within the Treatment Room service by undertaking responsibility for clinic patients in a designated treatment room. The post holder will ideally have had previous extensive district nursing experience as the role involves lone working. You will have a variety of clinical skills and be able to demonstrate continued professional development. You will have highly developed communication and personal skills. You will have the ability to work alone but still be a team player. If you feel you are adaptable, self motivated and able to respond to challenges then please apply.

An Enhanced DBS with Adults' Barred List check will be obtained during pre‑employment checks. Based in the Community division so you will need to be able to travel independently across Ashton, Wigan and Leigh.

Working for our organisation

Choose Well – Choose WWL. Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Planning and Organisational Duties

To work within all of the standard operational policies and health and safety procedures of the department in accordance with Trust standards and policies. To work within Infection Control policies and procedures, following strict hand hygiene in all areas at all times. Communicate effectively at all times with patients, relatives and carers to give and receive complex or sensitive information and instructions in an understandable form. This involves the use of persuasive, motivational and empathic skills whilst being sensitive to an individual’s complex barriers to communication e.g. deaf and non‑speaking individuals, those with learning disabilities, visual difficulties, cultural differences, pain, fear, altered perception, emotional and psychological problems, expressive and receptive dysphagia and behavioural problems. Maintain patient confidentiality at all times. Liaise and communicate with Pathology departmental staff, GPs, medical colleagues and ward staff, and maintain good relationships with all disciplines.

• Responsibility for Human Resources

To adhere to Trust policies and procedures. To comply with mandatory training requirements.

• Responsibility for Health & Safety

Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 – the post holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.

• Responsibility for Teaching

To teach and assess students as required. Teaching patients and carers.

Person specification

• Qualifications: Registered First Level Nurse
• Experience: NHS experience
• Skills: Managing routine consultations with patients, identify clinical risks and recognise signs of deterioration in patients. Wide range of clinical skills i.e removal of sutures, compression, wound care, catheter care, central line flush. Excellent communication and written skills. Able to work in a team. Ability to follow written procedures accurately. Ability to perform tasks of a repetitive nature.
• Knowledge: Knowledge of professional protocols
• Additional: Able to travel across Trust independently. Flexible to meet service demand. Speak English to relevant degree.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Job Applications

If you choose to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) or other automated tools to help draft your application, please ensure all content is personalised and an accurate reflection of your own skills, experience and professional judgement. AI may be useful for idea generation, grammar, or formatting, but it must not replace your own supporting statement or be relied on as the sole source of content. Wrightington Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust does not advocate reliance on AI during applications and expects applications to be genuine and tailored to the role; over‑reliance on AI‑generated text may negatively affect your application.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.