The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond –
come and take your place with us.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join the team in Clinical Outpatients. You will be an experienced Qualified Nurse who can demonstrate post qualification experience. We have student nurses within our department and experience of mentorship would be essential.

There are a large number of specialty clinics across the department both medical and surgical and specialist nurse led clinics running Monday – Saturday from 07.30 until evening. The vision for the future is 7 day working offering all patients the flexibility to attend at weekends. We cover a variety of clinics outside the Trust as part of our every day working.

Main duties of the job

The ability to adapt to a demanding and changing environment and the ability to work with people under pressure is essential as well as being an organized, experienced and an ability to lead a team on a shift basis is essential. You will support the clinic areas, work alongside our experienced CSW and HCA workforce and coordinate clinics as required, this will enable you to support, role model and ensure best practice is maintained at all times.

So, if you are enthusiastic, interested in covering our daily, evening and weekend work and want to make a difference to the patients journey to ensure our patients receive safe, clean and personal care each time, we are interested in you.

If you have undertaken venepuncture training and would like to develop your skills we are interested in giving you the opportunity to become highly skilled and would also offer you support to achieve this.

Working for our organisation

Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

We strongly recommend an informal visit if you are interested and offer a trial shift that we could arrange as the job is very different to working on a ward.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you are an International Nurse without a current NMC PIN, please do not apply for this role. To find out more about the current international nursing opportunities available to you here at the NCA, please contact [email protected]

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social background or trade union membership. However, as members of ethnicity minority groups and individuals with disabilities are currently under-represented at this level of post, we would encourage applications from members of these groups. Appointment will be based on merit alone.

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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.