Main area Rheumatology Nurse Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 412-MED-7125692
Site Leighton Hospital Town Crewe Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Pro Rota Salary period Yearly Closing 09/05/2025 23:59
Job overview
An opportunity currently exists within the Division of Medicine and Emergency Care for a committed and skilled individual to join the Rheumatology Team. You must be motivated and committed to providing the highest standard of nursing care. You must be able to demonstrate how you have used your clinical expertise in the delivery of nursing care. You must be flexible, assertive and confident and have the ability to confidently provide expert clinical advice in all situations.
We are looking for a highly motivated Registered Nurse who has am interest in Rheumatology Nursing, The ideal candidate will be committed to delivering direct patient care, as well as developing and expanding the service.
Main duties of the job
1.Lead a specialist area of practice, providing expert professional advice to others across the Trust within agreed guidelines and protocols, including medical colleagues and other professional groups when required.
2.Perform comprehensive specialist assessment of patients, plan, treat and evaluate care within agreed guidelines and protocols according to evidence-based practice and changing health needs.3. Communicate complex specialist information to medical colleagues and others. Refer patients to appropriate clinicians, in the Trust or externally, within agreed guidelines and protocols, according to assessment of patient need and evidence based decision.4.Prioritise patient care, supervising and allocating ones own workload, monitoring and evaluating effectiveness of care, including discharge of patients, or referring on, within agreed guidelines and protocols.5.Perform specialist clinical skills in the treatment and overall management of patient care, including requesting and interpreting investigations, within agreed guidelines and protocols.6. Provide a comprehensive specialist service, accepting accountability and responsibility for the management and effectiveness of the service on a day-to-day basis.
7.Promote patient and public involvement in the improvement of services, and involve patients and carers/relative in the planning and delivery of their care.
Working for our organisation
MCHFT provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.
The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff. An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.
With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022 the Trust became a strategic partner in both Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester ‘places’ and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership caring for a population of over 2.7million.
During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will treat patients on an outpatient basis and the role will include travel to our outlying site in order to facilitate the running of the outpatient clinics. You will be required to deliver treatments on an independent basis, managing your own caseload and specialty clinics. There is a patient advice phone service that will also need to be monitored on a daily basis.
Person specification
Qualifications
* RGN/RSCN/RM/RN Child
* Knowledge of professional accountability, and impact of NHS issues
* Broad range of clinical experience, post registration experience at a senior level
* Evidence of post graduate level study in specialist level
* Willingness to commence non medical proscribing once in post.
Skills
* Ability to manage own workload, with minimal supervision
* Ability to make evidence based clinical decisions within defined protocols or guidance
* Ability to create and present detailed reports from information
Physical Requirements
* Ability to perform a wide range of duties according to the Job Description
Key Messages
· Please let us know if you require an adjustment to our recruitment process.
· All correspondence will be sent via the email address you have registered as your TRAC account.
· Selection is based on the Trust's values, and the criteria outlined in the Job Description for the role.
· Employers have a legal responsibility to ensure that their employees have a “right to work” in the UK. Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust hold a Sponsor Licence, which means that we MAY be able to sponsor you IF the role meets the UK Government requirements for sponsorship. Not all NHS roles are eligible for sponsorship. To be eligible for sponsorship, the role must be in an eligible occupation code and must meet the skill level and the minimum salary threshold (usually £38,700 per year for Skilled Worker or £23,200 for Health Care Worker Visa). You can find more information on the Government website .
· Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the entry point (bottom) of the pay band.
· Appointments are subject to a 6-month probationary period. LED Doctors are subject to a 3-month probationary period.
· Please provide a contact email address for referees when you submit your application. We will not request any references until after you have been made a formal job offer.
· You will be required to pay for your DBS disclosure (where the post requires one). This will be done via 3 monthly instalments from your pay. We encourage applicants to join and remain registered with the DBS update service.
· We do not reimburse travel to interview expenses.
· Secondments will be considered for fixed term positions when both parties agree. Candidates should seek approval from their current line manager before application.
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 (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.
Application numbers
We expect to receive a very high level of applications for this vacancy, and due to this a limit has been set on the number of applications we are able to receive. Once this limit is reached the vacancy will close. We would urge interested candidates who meet the specification to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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