Job summary
Join Our Team at Butler Green, Oldham -- Make a Real Difference Every Day

We're looking for a motivated and compassionate nurse to join our team at the Butler Green Unit. In this role, you'll deliver high-quality, patient-centred care and play a key part in supporting adults through their rehabilitation journey.

As a valued member of our Intermediate Care (IC) and Enhanced Intermediate Care (EIC) services, you will use your clinical skills to carry out holistic and ongoing assessments, working independently to help patients regain independence and improve their wellbeing.

This is a role where you can truly shape patient outcomes. You'll also take on supervisory and leadership responsibilities within the team, supporting colleagues and contributing to the smooth running of the service under the guidance of the Team Leader.

If you're passionate about delivering excellent care, confident in your clinical skills, and ready for a role where every day brings new challenges and rewards, we'd love to hear from you.

PLEASE NOTE, APPLICANTS MUST HAVE PROVEN POST REGISTRATION EXPERIENCE AND HAVE COMPLETED THEIR REGISTERED NURSING PRECEPTORSHIP TO BE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR THIS VACANCY

Main duties of the job
What You'll Be Doing

In this role, you'll play a key part in delivering high-quality care and supporting the continuous improvement of our service. Your responsibilities will include:

• Communicating effectively with individuals and groups, including when discussing complex or sensitive information, and ensuring any barriers to communication are addressed
• Developing your clinical knowledge and skills, continually expanding your expertise within your area of practice
• Championing best practice in health, safety and security to maintain a safe environment for patients, colleagues and visitors
• Contributing to service development, sharing ideas and supporting improvements within the team
• Driving quality improvement, helping to enhance the standard of care we deliver
• Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, ensuring that every person is treated with dignity and respect
• Assessing complex and changing health and wellbeing needs across your caseload, using strong clinical judgement
• Planning, delivering and evaluating personalised care programmes that respond to each patient's evolving needs
• Leading and supporting team development, encouraging the sharing of knowledge, ideas and good practice
• Coordinating, allocating and monitoring work across the team and ensuring that physical and financial resources are used efficiently and responsibly.

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.

Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack (opens in existing window)

Details
Date posted: 15 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Weekend / night enhancements
Contract: Secondment
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 236-UEC-NM416-26-I

Person Specification
Essential Qualifications & Professional Registration

• Degree / diploma in nursing studies (or equivalent nursing qualification and experience)
• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Completion of a registered nursing preceptorship

Desirable

• Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD)

Essential Skills & Abilities

• Ability to coordinate your workload and supervise members of the team, ensuring high quality, safe and effective patient care
• IT Skills

Essential Knowledge, Training & Experience

• Demonstrates evidence based clinical knowledge
• Communicates succinctly, clearly and accurately both verbally and in writing
• Be an effective team member who is able to relate to colleagues at all levels of the Trust with tact and diplomacy
• Proven post NMC registration experience

Desirable

• Previous IMC or Rehabilitation experience
• Experience of the use of clinical systems
• Ability to use reflective practice, to continuously improve the standard of patient care
• Demonstrate initiative to proactively problem solve with a solution focus

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: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Butler Green Enhanced Intermediate Care, Butler Green House, Wallis Street, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 8NG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Unit Manager, Melinda Taylor, Melinda.Taylor2@nca.nhs.uk, 01612060447

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