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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to join our renal team as a specialist nurse in home dialysis therapies. If you are looking for career development working with renal patients this is an ideal opportunity.

MFT are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual to support and enhance the development of the home dialysis service. We are interested in hearing from nurses who have at least 3 years post registration renal nursing experience, and a minimum of 18 months working directly with haemodialysis patients. The successful candidate will need to be highly motivated, aspirational, and caring with a clear interest in promoting self-care dialysis. They will be able to work within our well established and growing home dialysis service, supporting both home haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients in the community.

They will be able to work autonomously and make independent decisions whilst contributing fully to the MDT. This is an excellent opportunity to gain further knowledge and experience within this speciality and further develop your clinical skills. There will be opportunities to develop autonomous practice, experiencing high level work and develop specialist skills with support from the renal MDT and specialist nursing team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work primarily within the relevant clinical field (Home Dialysis).  The post holder is responsible for delivering immediate care to home dialysis patients and will work primarily within the community in the patient’s homes.  The post holder will prioritise, assess, plan and evaluate care for these patients, will provide direct patient care and have detailed clinical knowledge of the specialist area. The post holder will assist the senior nurses in ensuring that high standards and quality of care are delivered and maintained. 

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 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 & staff experience, operational effectiveness & 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 & 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.