Nurse Practitioner – Hyper Acute Stroke B3/B4

Job summary

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group was created by bringing together staff and services from two NHS Trusts, 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 over 19,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond - come and take your place with us.

Salford Care Organisation is recognised as the centre of excellence in neuroscience and is the principal receiving site as the Greater Manchester Comprehensive Stroke Centre .

We are looking for a highly motivated Nurse to join the nursing team on The Hyper Acute Stroke Unit

The Hyper Acute Stroke Unit is a 39 bedded unit with a unique and dynamic team. Stroke patients receive care from all specialties and ward staff work closely with the MDT- including ward based Advanced Practitioners, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.At Salford Royal we aim to deliver Safe, Clean and Personal care every time and are committed in continuously striving to improve the care and services we deliver to our patients, HASU has achieved and maintained SCAPE status as assessed through the Trust Nursing Assessment and Accreditation System.

Main duties of the job

You will have appropriate experience and the ability to lead a team in the absence of the Unit Manager, you will wish to develop your leadership skills further, and will be fully supported in your development through access to leadership course's.

You will need to ensure that as well as providing clinical leadership, and taking responsibility for direct staff management and the running of the ward, you have the ability to meet deadlines the skills and desire to manage care within budget. As a deputy to the Ward Manager you must be able to deliver the same standards of care and support the team and maintain standards. You should also be politically aware, be able to create vision for the team, and influence change in the clinical area.

The role is pressured at times, and you will need to be proactive and be able to work with or without direction. You will have vision for how the Unit and team can be developed and be able to demonstrate evidence of how you have met goals in your current role.You will also be expected to provide evidence of how your leadership skills have positively affected team dynamics and improved clinical standards within your current role also. You must be able to motivate staff to achieve high standards, and possess excellent communication skills to ensure that the aims of the organisation are achieved. Suitably experienced applicants are welcomed from all nursing specialities.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk