About this role
Job summary
Join our dynamic Treatment Room team and play a vital role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in the heart of the Warrington community. As a Band 5 Nurse, youll provide a wide range of clinical interventions; ensuring patients receive timely, safe, and effective treatment. Youll work closely with colleagues across primary and community care, helping to reduce pressures on GPs and hospitals while making a real difference to patients lives every day. This is a varied and rewarding role where no two days are the same, offering opportunities to develop your clinical skills in a supportive and professional environment.
Main duties of the job
Provide evidence-based nursing care within Treatment Rooms, including wound management, dressings, sutures, and post-operative care.
Carry out clinical assessments, triage, and escalation to senior staff or other services as appropriate.
Maintain accurate, timely patient records in line with professional and organisational standards.
Promote infection prevention and control, ensuring safe use of equipment and adherence to policies.
Provide health promotion, advice, and education to patients and carers to encourage self-care and independence.
Work collaboratively with GPs, community nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure continuity of care.
Supervise and support junior staff, students, and healthcare assistants as required.
Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives within the Treatment Room service.
About us
Flexible working will be considered for all roles.
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.
Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.
Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).
They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.
Our mission
We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other
Our vision
We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn
Our values
Kind: We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone Open: We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working Fair: We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all One team: We work well together and with our communities
Job description Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
The post holder actively supports the Treatment Room Service by undertaking responsibility for delegated patients within a clinical setting.
Undertakes the assessment, planning and evaluation of patients care needs.
Liaises with the Treatment Room Coordinator and Treatment Room Team Leader to ensure information sharing in relation to patient care / changes to care plan and the continuity of care and reviewing of complex care packages.
Mentoring, Teaching and Assessing.
Liaises with all health care professionals and other agencies to ensure effective service delivery.
Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical:
To promote the health and well-being within the family unit and community as a whole.
Perform comprehensive assessment of patient nursing needs as the named nurse.
Plan, assess and evaluate programmes of care according to changing health needs under the direction of the wound care specialist Nurse.
To support the team leader in the co-ordination of complex and continuing care.
Maintain accurate records in accordance with NMC.
Attend a multi-disciplinary case conference as the named nurse if appropriate.
To communicate and collaborate with other members of the PHCT, voluntary and statutory organisations to support individual patient care.
To establish and maintain effective communication with patients, relatives and carers in complex and potentially challenging situations.
To competently perform clinical skills related to the post.
To be professionally responsible for a delegated caseload under the supervision of the Treatment Room Team Leader.
To assess health needs at individual, practice and community level.
To undertake chronic disease management reviews using appropriate template.
To work without direct supervision.
Managerial:
To access support from the Treatment Room Coordinator within the group for the day-to-day workload in the absence of the Team Leader.
Clinical Governance:
Support clinical supervision within the team.
Maintain professional portfolio that demonstrates evidence of on-going professional development.
Ensure that practice is evidence based through undertaking audit and critically appraising literature.
Maintain clinical standards through reflective practice and clinical supervision.
Adhere to the NMC Standards: - Professional Code of Conduct. Scope of Professional Practice. Administrations of Medicines. Records and Record keeping.
Identify any limitations/gaps in professional or clinical knowledge.
Contribute to the development of and implementation of policies, procedures and guidelines relevant to own area of work.
Promote peoples equality, diversity and rights.
Teaching and Learning:
Act as a mentor for pre-registration nursing students.
Support the development of the nursing team by teaching and assessing junior members of the team including nursing auxiliaries.
Undertake mandatory in-house training and other training that supports the role.
Access clinical supervision.
Undertake training that is specific to the post.
Teaching of patients / carers and other professionals to support patients to maintain their optimum level of independence.
Personal Issue:
Participate in the PDP process.
To adhere to all Trust Policies.
Report sickness and other absences to the identified administrator.
To provide accurate, timely information to the identified administrator regarding annual leave, expenses and study leave.
Supply required activity data related to patient care.
Adhere to the lone worker policy
Please see attached Full Job Description,
Person Specification
Right to Work Essential
Do you currently have the unrestricted right to work in the UK? If appointed, will you require sponsorship under a UK work visa route (now or in the future)? Please note that sponsorship is not available for all roles. Sponsorship will only be considered where the post meets the relevant UK immigration requirements and where the organisation determines that sponsorship is appropriate for the role.
Relationships Essential
If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.
Experience Essential
Demonstrable post registration experience Previous community nursing experience
Desirable
Previous treatment room experience Ear Care training
Skills and Knowledge Essential
Skills and knowledge to effectively manage wounds and leg ulcers (including compression bandaging and Doppler) Effective communication skills Good standards of record keeping Knowledge of current national policies affecting the NHS Knowledge of relevant NHS legislation Knowledge of audit and research Effective time keeping Ability to show initiative and work autonomously
Desirable
Confident in the use of SystmOne
Qualifications Essential
Registered Nurse (Adult) NMC Registered
Desirable
Tissue Viability Qualification Leg ulcer Qualification V150 or V300 Prescribing Qualification Mentorship qualification
Job Specific Requirements Essential
The ability to travel independently across the Trust The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, 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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (BCH)
Address Orford Jubilee Park
Jubilee Way
Warrington
Cheshire
WA2 8HE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://northcheshireandmersey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)