Lead Nurse

at  Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an exceptional nurse leader who is experienced, innovative and committed to making a real difference to the Division of Cardiac Services, Wythenshawe, Trafford, Withington and Altrincham Hospitals (WTWA). This is a key nursing post, sitting within the Cardiac Services senior nursing team, supporting the divisional Head of Nursing through leading the divisional nursing teams to develop our services to a new level of excellence.
They will be joining an established team of a Lead Nurse and 6 Matrons, who are responsible for taking forward the nursing vision as well as being highly involved in service improvement and performance. This post holds line management responsibilities.
They will be an experienced senior nurse who has held previous leadership roles, including at an 8a level and possess a proven record of delivering safe and high quality patient care.
They will be a highly visible leader, able to evidence how they have positively influenced nursing and patient care, have experience of innovation and change management and can demonstrate ongoing professional development.
Patient safety and experience will be a priority, with an emphasis on compassion and dignity.
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.
The successful candidate should be enthusiastic, with authentic leadership and people management skills, able to lead the nursing contribution at a senior level in line with the MFT Strategy and People Plan. They must be able to demonstrate evidence-based practice and knowledge of the current healthcare agenda, be clinically credible and able to manage competing priorities.
The post holder will be skilled at building relationships and influencing within the division and wider WTWA teams. They will be an excellent communicator, well organised, able to triangulate and promote policy, guidance and data to inform decision making to improve patient care and staff experience. Highly articulate and able to produce high quality reports. They will need to demonstrate their ability to work autonomously and be a strong and supportive team member and leader.
S/he will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and relevant departments internal and external to the Trust to ensure the delivery of responsive individualised patient care developing and supporting nursing staff to respond to the transforming nursing agenda.
Please contact Tracy Kelly, Cardiac Services Head of Nursing tracy.kelly@mft.nhs.uk for further information or to arrange an informal meeting

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