Treatment Room Nurse

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Treatment Room Nurse

The closing date is 12 October 2026

Pleasenote this post is internal to North Cheshire and Mersey employees.

Weare looking for a motivated and compassionate registered nurse to join ourfriendly community treatment room team, delivering high-quality, person-centredcare across seven clinic locations in Halton. This varied and rewarding role isideal for a nurse who is clinically confident, well organised and able to workboth independently and collaboratively. You will support patients with a widerange of planned nursing needs, helping them remain well within their localcommunity. In return, you will join a supportive and experienced team thatvalues professional development, shared learning, patient safety and continuousimprovement. The post offers an excellent opportunity to develop communitynursing skills, build lasting therapeutic relationships and make a visibledifference to the health and wellbeing of local people.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assess, plan, deliver and evaluate safe,evidence-based nursing care for patients attending community treatment roomsacross Halton. Main duties include wound assessment and management; compressiontherapy and leg ulcer care within competence; suture and clip removal;injections, prescribed medicines and other treatment-room procedures; chronicdisease monitoring; health promotion and patient education; infectionprevention and control; recognising deterioration and escalating concerns appropriately;maintaining accurate, contemporaneous electronic records in line with NMCstandards; managing a delegated caseload and working autonomously withinprofessional competence; safeguarding adults and children; contributing toclinical governance, audit, incident reporting and service improvement; andworking collaboratively with GPs, specialist nurses, community teams and otheragencies to coordinate care. The nurse will also support colleagues, maintainequipment and stock safely, and provide care that protects each patientsprivacy, dignity and individual needs.

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 responsibilities

• Actively supports the Treatment room team by undertaking responsibility for a delegated caseload, managing of patients/clients within a defined clinical service/area, providing evidence-based care and advice.
• Provides a nursing assessment of patients/clients; plans, develops and/or implements and evaluates programmes of care.
• Provide clinical supervision to other staff, students
• May be responsible for routine work allocation and checking of tasks of support staff and/or less experienced staff.

Qualifications

• Active NMC registered adult nurse.
• Nursing Qualification at level 5/6 study.
• Teaching and Assessing qualification.

Experience

• Range of extended clinical skills & demonstrate clinical knowledge.
• Venepuncture and immunisation.
• Able to communicate sensitive information to patients, relatives and carers.
• Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate packages of care.

Relationships

• If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.

Practical Skills

• Venepuncture and immunisation.
• Able to communicate sensitive information to patients, relatives and carers.
• Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate packages of care.
• Able to develop effective interpersonal skills/relationships across the health & social care setting.
• Experience of using Electronic Patient Records.
• Audit and research.
• Supra pubic catheterisation.
• Tissue viability qualification.
• IV Therapy
• Chronic disease management.
• Experience of
• working within palliative care.
• Teaching & assessing skills.

Attitude and Behaviours

• Displays care, compassion, sensitivity, and responsiveness to other peoples feelings and needs.
• Able to work as part of a team, co-operating to work together and in conjunction with others and willing to help and assist wherever possible and appropriate, appreciating the value of diversity in the workplace.
• Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation and with patients and their careers.
• Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload managing unpredictable service demands.
• Positive and flexible attitude to dealing with change explore new ways of doing things and approaches.
• Able to respond to the changing needs of the patient in a proficient and timely manner.
• Demonstrates values consistent with those of the Trust.
• Ability and willingness to adopt a flexible approach to work on the occasions it may be required.
• Able to travel independently across the Trust.

Right to Work

• 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.

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.

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