Job summary
Join Our Nursing Team - Make a Real Difference

Are you passionate about delivering exceptional patient care and supporting others to grow? We're looking for dedicated nurses to join our team and help shape the future of healthcare.

What you'll do:

• Assess patient care needs and design, implement, and evaluate tailored care plans
• Act as a named care provider for a specific group of patients while supporting the wider team
• Assist in managing and organising daily work, ensuring clear and effective communication
• Provide guidance and support to junior staff, fostering a positive and collaborative environment
• Play a key role in supervising and assessing learners and unregistered staff, acting as a mentor and named supervisor

Why join us?

• Be part of a team that values compassion, professionalism, and continuous learning
• Enjoy opportunities to develop your teaching and leadership skills
• Make a meaningful impact on patient lives every single day

If you're ready to take the next step in your nursing career, apply now and help us deliver outstanding care.

Main duties of the job
Shape the Future of Patient Care - Join Our Nursing Team

Are you ready to use your clinical expertise to make a real impact? We're looking for passionate nurses who want to deliver outstanding care and support the development of others.

What you'll do:

• Use your clinical skills to assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate care programmes for individual patients and the wider ward
• Assist in managing and organising daily work, ensuring clear communication and supporting junior staff (with extra support for newly qualified nurses)
• Take a leading role in education, mentorship, and supervision of learners and unregistered staff
• Deliver evidence-based nursing interventions, applying advanced knowledge and skills to meet patient needs
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and make referrals where appropriate
• Provide compassionate care for patients and their families, respecting privacy and dignity
• Monitor and adjust care plans to ensure the highest standards of care
• Utilise highly developed clinical skills specific to your speciality
• Practice within professional, ethical, and legal frameworks for nursing

Why join us?

• Be part of a supportive team that values excellence and continuous learning
• Develop your leadership, teaching, and advanced clinical skills
• Make a meaningful difference every day

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)

Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as a Registered Nurse in the UK.

The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/

Person Specification
Qualifications & Professional Registration
Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration (Part 1 Adult / General Level 1 or 2)
• Degree / Diploma in Nursing studies or equivalent

Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential

• Dementia care
• Interest in frailty
• Willingness to develop
• Experience of working in the hospital setting

Desirable

• Experience with working with elderly patients

Eligibility Criteria
Essential

• Completion of a registered nursing preceptorship
• Proven post NMC registration experience

Skills & Abilities
Essential

• Demonstrate Evidence based clinical knowledge
• IT Skills

Desirable

• Blood & Cannulation

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: The Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, OL1 2JE, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Ward Manager Emma Ormrod, emma.ormrod@nca.nhs.uk, 01616278446

Details
Date posted: 16 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum
Contract: Secondment
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 236-MED-NM794-26-EXG
Job locations: The Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, OL1 2JE, United Kingdom

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