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Main area Surgery Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week) Job ref 409-7422779
Site Southport Hospital Town Southport Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/09/2025 23:59 Interview date 03/10/2025
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Job overview
Are you a passionate and dedicated nurse? We are looking for an experienced band 5 nurse with NHS experience.
As a band 6 sister you will lead and mentor a team of dedicated nurses ensuring high standards of care in our fast paced environment. If you are looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to develop your management skills and share your clinical knowledge and experience with our team.
You will have the opportunity to showcase your excellent communication skills and work within an orthopaedic and surgical team.
We will ensure that you are well supported and given relevant training opportunities to develop and enhance your own leadership skills. This is the perfect chance for any aspiring band 6 nurse waiting for the right post.
Main duties of the job
On a day-to-day basis you will be responsible for managing and co-ordinating the care of the patients, the role combines line management for the nurses within your delegated team and ensure mechanisms and processes are in place and maintained.
You will also act as a source of specialist and expert nursing knowledge and provide support and advice to the wider team.
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
* Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
* Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
* National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Proposed Interview date: 3rd October 2025
Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse Diploma / degree level or equivalent experience
* Current NMC Registration
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Leadership training or qualification (minimum Level 3 ILM or equivalent) or working towards
Knowledge and Experience
* Able to demonstrate knowledge of NMC professional standards for practice contained within the code
* Experience of leading a team in a clinical environment
* Research awareness and commitment to evidence-based practice
* Experience of clinical risk assessment & management of identified risk
* Understanding key features of Clinical governance
* Knowledge of audit & audit procedures
Skills and Abilities
* Up to date clinical skills in order to ensure quality of services being provided by ward
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Excellent organisational skills – prioritise and coordinate own workload
* Able to act as a leader, effectively managing staff in the department
* Ability to act as a change agent
* Ability to co-ordinate & liaise with MDT members
* Computer literacy eg experience of electronic patient record
Other
* Frequent sitting or standing in a restricted position; occasional moderate effort for several short period
* Frequent concentration, work pattern unpredictable Concentration for patient clinical work
* Occasional distressing / highly distressing or emotional circumstances. Deals with patient complaints, conveys unwelcome news, complaints, concerns arising from incident communicated to patients and relatives
* Working in ward environment providing direct clinical care
* Potential blood or body fluids exposure
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.
Given sometimes we receive a high volume of applications to work for us, please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received from which a shortlist can be confirmed. Therefore, you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.
The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.
If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact Recruitment@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk
We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.
The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.
The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please click here to check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship.
eVisa Update
For successful candidates on selected work and study visa routes, who have completed and paid for their applications will no longer receive a visa vignette in passport as evidence of their permission to enter the UK. Instead, you will be issued with an eVisa only, which is accessed by creating a UKVI account. Before travelling to the UK, we advise applicants to:
* Understand how to generate an eVisa share code
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. If you have not already done so, you are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee applies.
Flexible Working
We actively support flexible working patterns. We would also encourage you to discuss flexible working options at interview stage.
Working for Team MWL
Staff recognition is important; we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments where applicable, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a range of services.
The Trust is non-smoking across all sites. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.
You must ensure that your application is truthful. The Trust will not accept AI-generated text and may check applications with AI-detection software.
Additional Information
Before applying, review the Trusts Values and Behaviours: We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE.
An applicant guide for your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and will require DBS disclosure.
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