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Staff Nurse in General Medical Ward

Employer
East Cheshire NHS Trust
Location
Macclesfield District General Hospital, Victoria Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire, Macclesfield
Salary
Competitive salary
Closing date
7 Dec 2020

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Whether you are just starting out in your career or are looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, East Cheshire NHS Trust is the right employer for you. An organisation with a real sense of community we actively support and develop our staff to ensure our patients receive the best quality care. Join our team and support our vision of delivering the right care first time, every time.

COME AND JOIN US on our NEW general medical ward with endocrinology beds within Macclesfield District General Hospital? We are located in the famous silk town of Macclesfield, situated within the beautiful surrounding countryside of the Peak District National Park in Cheshire, and within easy reach of Manchester, Liverpool and Staffordshire.

This is an exciting time for us to develop our services and increase our nursing workforce and you could be part of this excellent opportunity to be part of a brand new team. Ward 2 is a general medical ward, caring for patients with a wide range of medical conditions with endocrinology as a speciality.

What we can offer?
  • A friendly, supportive mutli-professional team spirit, working closely with the multi professional teams.
  • A structured induction programme with shadowing opportunities and on-going supervision and training
  • Funded training for courses such as Immediate Life Support (ILS) and access to continuing professional development (CPD) funding to help manage your own learning and growth.
  • Flexible working schemes
  • Plans to create a new 12 month Leadership apprenticeship to run alongside the Preceptorship Programme for Newly Qualified staff


We welcome full time, part time and secondment applications from those of you with a genuine interest in joining us. Although relevant post-registration experience in endocrinology would be preferred, don't let this deter you. A caring, compassionate, patient-centred approach, with the drive and enthusiasm to deliver high standards of care to get it right first time, every time, we will welcome you.

This post is Permanent

Hours per week: full time and part time hours available

Shift patterns:shifts will be either early (7:00-15:00), late (13:00-20:00), long day (7:00-20:00) or night shifts (19:30-7:30)

Closing date: 6th December 2020

Please be aware that this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, the cost of which is payable by the successful candidate.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 6 months or more in the last 5 years you will need to obtain an overseas police clearance. Further information can be found on the additional information links at the bottom of the advert.

To keep up to date with all of our latest Recruitment activity here at East Cheshire NHS Trust, take a look at our Careers website with lots of information on how to join our team and Facebook and Twitter pages, links to which can be found on the right hand side:

Visit our Facebook page: Careers at East Cheshire NHS Trust

Follow us on Twitter: @CareersECT

For further details / informal visits contact:

Marie Beckwith, Matron MAU/MIS/AAU - [email protected], 01625 661734

Gill Burrows, Ward Manager - [email protected], 01625 661954

For queries regarding the application and or interview process, please contact the Recruitment Team either via email, [email protected] or telephone, 01625 656510

We would like to inform you that if your application is successful, your interview will be held via SKYPE.

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Please read the guidance for applicants and completing the application form documents prior to completing your application form (documents are located to the right).

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. The Trust is a Disability Confident Leader and as such, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification). In order to facilitate applications from all members of the community the Trust is able to offer services including Braille Applications and Interpreting Services.

The Trust may close any advertised post before the stated closing date. We recommend that you apply as soon as possible.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to East Cheshire NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.

If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks of the advert closing date, regretfully you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the current Resident Labour Market Test which will be in place until the end of December 2020. UK Visas and Immigration requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, Tier 2 skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

Guidance can be found here Criminal Records Checks For Overseas Applicants

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