Staff Nurse (Band 5) - Cardiology - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - #1659769

Band 5 staff nurse working on Acute Cardiac Centre (ACC) in MRI.

You will be required to work in partnership with a well established and highly effective multi-disciplinary team, caring for an extremely vulnerable and complex group of patients, with a range of cardiac needs.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join our team on the tertiary Acute Cardiac Centre in MRI.

We are a Regional Cardiac Centre providing extensive cardiac services; Angioplasty – Angiography – unstable angina, Heart failure, Rhythm disturbances, and complex cardiac problems requiring interventional procedures. Additionally we also deliver a Primary Angioplasty Service for Acute MI patients in the North West of England.

As a nurse at the Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT), you will benefit from a number of educational programs and career paths. We are committed to the career development of our nurses and will assist you to develop your career in highly specialized clinical area.

We have an opportunity for keen, motivated and enthusiastic Staff Nurses to join our team in cardiology.

This will be an ideal opportunity for experienced nurses who are eager to expand and progress their nursing practice. On appointment the successful candidate/s will receive full support in education.

We are looking for individuals with a genuine interest in Cardiology who are hard working and passionate about delivering high standards of patient care and are motivated towards maintaining and improving their own skills.

You must have be able to have a flexible working pattern.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 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 and staff experience, operational effectiveness and 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 and 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.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at **********@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

• Registered Nurse


• Degree or Diploma


• Teaching Qualification

• Experience of working on own and as part of a team


• Ability to problem solve and prioritise


• Specific interest in cardiology


• Awareness of clinical Audit


• Experience in relevant area of practice


• Evidence undertaking a mentor/preceptor role


• Minimum of 1 year experience, preferably in cardiology/ cardiac nursing

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills


• Proven ability to problem-solve.


• Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately


• Well developed organisational skills.


• Dexterity and accuracy in physical skills.


• Demonstrates awareness of own limitations.

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.

Name Janet Kay Job title Ward Manager Email address *********@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0161 276 8970

Faith Mutamba Matron Cardiovascular
*************@mft.nhs.uk
0161 276 8525