Nursing Careers Fair Wednesday 22 October 2014, 2–5pm Engineering and Science Learning Centre, University Park
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Welcome to the Nursing Careers Fair The University of Nottingham is a pioneer in nursing education. As one of the largest nursing schools in the UK, we offer innovative nursing courses informed by powerful research and delivered by highquality teachers in an inspiring environment. As a graduate of the University, there has never been a more exciting time to be in nursing. If you know which career path you wish to take, please make the most of this fair by speaking to key employers and attending the relevant presentations. For those who may be undecided as to how you would like to use your degree or diploma, please take this opportunity to find out about different career paths and the further training in speciality areas that you may not have considered.
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We are delighted to welcome so many local employers to this fair and would like to take this opportunity to thank all those exhibiting and delivering presentations. I do hope this will be a successful and useful event for you and help to springboard you into an exciting career in the nursing profession. Professor Patrick Callaghan Head of the School of Health Science
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Contents 01 Welcome 03 Presentation schedule 04 Presentations
Employer profiles 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 06 06 06 06 07 07 07 07 07 07 08 08 08
BMI Healthcare Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Cygnet Healthcare Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Lincolnshire Community Health Services Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) NHS Professionals Nottingham CityCare Partnership Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Nottinghamshire Healthcare Prison Service Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Raphael Healthcare Royal Navy Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust St Andrew’s United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust University of Derby The University of Nottingham
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Presentation schedule
Time 2.15–2.45pm
Room B01 Opportunities for professional development as a qualified nurse The University of Nottingham
3–3.30pm
Neonatal – your future in child nursing NUH Paediatrics
3.45–4.15pm
Working as a nurse in the field with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Janet Hearn, MSF nurse
4.30–5pm
Working in an operating theatre NUH Operating Theatres
2.30–3pm
Room B08 Becoming a St Andrew’s nurse St Andrew’s Healthcare
3.15–3.45pm
Offender health Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
4–4.30pm
Nursing careers in the Royal Navy Royal Navy
2.15–2.45pm
Room B14 Nursing career opportunities within specialist services Nottingham CityCare Partnership Nottingham CityCare
3–3.30pm
Nursing in the Nottinghamshire community and community inpatients Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
3.45–4.15pm
Careers in critical care nursing Critical Care NUH
4.30–5pm
From birth to adolescence: nursing children and young people Nottinghams Childen’s Hospital
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Presentations
Opportunities for professional development as a qualified nurse Maintaining professional knowledge and developing specialist skills is an essential part of being a competent registered nurse. This presentation outlines BSc and MSc courses across a range of nursing specialities at The University of Nottingham.
Offender health This presentation will give an overview of services provided by, and the opportunities for, a career within offender health for adult, mental health and learning disability nurses.
Nursing careers in the Royal Navy
Neonatal – your future in child nursing
Informative brief on a career in the Royal Navy as a full-time student, qualified nurse or a reservist nurse.
Find out what you can expect from a career in neonatal nursing as well as recent sector developments and training. This presentation will also outline some top tips to help you get the job you want.
Nursing career opportunities within specialist services in Nottingham CityCare Partnership
Working as a nurse in the field with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) As the world’s leading emergency medical humanitarian aid organisation, offering emergency assistance to populations in dire distress, working with MSF is varied and challenging.
Working in an operating theatre This presentation will give you an insight into working in Nottingham University Hospitals operating theatre. There will be information on various roles and careers, preceptorship programmes and learning beyond registration opportunities.
Becoming a St Andrew’s nurse Find out what working at St Andrew’s, the UK’s leading charity providing specialist NHS mental healthcare, is like. There will be further information on career opportunities, support, services and service users.
This presentation will discuss specialist nurse roles as well as looking at what those roles involve, why they were developed and how the nurses within those roles can influence service development and research within their area.
Nursing in the Nottinghamshire community and community inpatients Community nursing opens up a wide variety of career paths in general nursing and specialist areas, in people’s homes and in community inpatients, where the future of nursing is planned.
Careers in critical care nursing An honest and engaging discussion about the realities of critical care nursing from one of our band 5 nurses.
From birth to adolescence: nursing children and young people This talk will provide an overview of children’s and young people’s nursing, the rewards and challenges, career opportunities and the skills nurses need to care for this diverse group.
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Employer profiles
BMI Healthcare Specialisms: Adult and child BMI The Park Hospital is an acute independent hospital providing excellent clinical services. Opportunities for career development exist within the wards, critical care, oncology, theatres and outpatients, across a wide range of specialties.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Specialisms: Adult The Trust is a busy district general hospital with a wide variety of vacancies across all divisions, providing flexible working opportunities and job rotations. The Trust encourages professional staff development via a range of programmes, including induction, preceptorship, action learning sets, clinical skills and portfolio development.
Cygnet Healthcare Specialisms: Mental health and learning disabilities Cygnet employs permanent mental health nurses (from newly qualified to ward managers) and permanent support workers to work on our multidisciplinary teams. We also employ a bank of casual registered mental nurses and support workers to cover shifts as and when required. This is an ideal way to earn some extra money while gaining experience of working at Cygnet.
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Specialisms: Adult and child The Royal Derby Hospital is one of the newest hospitals built in the East Midlands offering a modern hospital and facilities. We have numerous opportunities for newly qualified staff. If you’re a newly qualified nurse and want to deliver safe, quality, effective patient care this is the right place for you.
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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Specialisms: Mental health and learning disabilities Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, social care and community services across the entire county and parts of NE Lincolnshire and Derbyshire. We’re always looking for dedicated nursing staff, committed to providing patients with high quality healthcare, underpinned by the values of the 6Cs.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services Specialisms: Adult and child At Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) we provide community healthcare services for the population of Lincolnshire, one of the largest healthcare communities in the country. Our 2,800 staff care for thousands of patients every day in a variety of settings such as walk-in centres, sexual health centres, community hospitals and out-of-hours service.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Specialisms: Adult MSF or Doctors Without Borders is the world’s leading emergency medical humanitarian aid organisation. We offer emergency assistance to populations in dire distress, for example displacement, areas of armed conflict, natural disasters, epidemics and malnutrition. We need registered nurses with varied experience and an ability to commit for a period of nine months for the first mission. A foreign language is useful, but not essential.
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NHS Professionals Specialisms: Adult and child NHS Professionals is the leading provider of managed flexible workforce services to the NHS. You will have competitive weekly pay, first choice of available shifts, paid annual leave, statutory maternity and paternity, sick pay, access to our NHSP stakeholder pension, free training and development opportunities.
Nottingham CityCare Partnership Specialisms: Adult and child Nottingham CityCare Partnership is the leading provider of NHS community services in Nottingham. We are a staff-led organisation aiming to help improve the health of local people and support local communities. From health visiting, school nursing to community nursing teams we offer services for all the family. There are many career opportunities within CityCare and we are keen to increase the number of nurses working in our community teams.
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust Specialisms: Adult, child and mental health As a large acute teaching hospital based over two sites, NUH has a wide range of fantastic opportunities for staff to start and develop their careers in healthcare and support services. We provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottingham and its surrounding communities. We also provide specialist services for a further three to four million people from across the region. We work closely with The University of Nottingham and are committed to teaching and inspiring our future generations of doctors and nurses. We have an active research and innovation programme aimed at improving the care and treatment of future patients.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Specialisms: Adult, child, mental health and learning disabilities Nottinghamshire Healthcare is positive about providing integrated healthcare services, including mental health, learning disability and community health services. Over 8,800 dedicated staff provide these services in a variety of settings, ranging from the community through to acute wards, as well as secure settings. We have opportunities for graduates from all fields of nursing.
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Nottinghamshire Healthcare Prison Service
Royal Navy
Specialisms: Adult, mental health and learning disabilities
The Royal Navy is widely acknowledged to be amongst the best naval forces in the world. Offering great training, excellent professional development, good pay and conditions and promotion prospects.
We provide a range of primary care, mental health and substance misuse services within 13 prisons. We aim to improve health to support justice and have effective pathways that deliver treatment to those with identified needs, promoting a healthy lifestyle. We are committed to working in partnership to deliver pathways of care equivalent to community.
Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Specialisms: Adult Papworth is the largest specialist cardiothoracic hospital in the UK providing internationally recognised regional and national services. We actively develop nursing careers in all our departments by supporting academic and clinical education in a well-staffed and resourced environment. We provide preceptorship in all areas and a structured cardiothoracic rotation.
Specialisms: Adult and mental health
We are looking for people to join as nursing officers or naval nurses, qualifying with a degree in adult or mental health nursing. With opportunities also in the Royal Naval Reserves.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Specialisms: Adult and child Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is forward thinking. Our focus is to provide quality for all and ensure that the community we serve receives a first-class patient experience. By joining our team you will have access to extensive preceptorships, continued professional development, flexible working patterns and rotational posts.
St Andrew’s
Raphael Healthcare
Specialisms: Mental health and learning disabilities
Specialisms: Mental health and learning disabilities
St Andrew’s is the UK’s leading charitable provider of specialist mental healthcare. As a non-profit organisation, we reinvest all our surpluses into a wide range of specialist services, state-of-the-art facilities and our dedicated nursing teams. We also offer a range of excellent benefits, including a pension scheme, free parking, childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme, retail discounts and sports facilities such as a gym.
Raphael Healthcare provides high-quality services for women with a diagnosis of mental illness, personality disorders, learning disabilities. We offer a six-month peceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses. This programme provides a structured framework which helps to consolidate the knowledge and skills acquired during their pre-registration course and also an opportunity to fulfil their potential to develop their future career pathway. This will also help them to meet the standard of their Post Registration Education Practice (PREP) and continuous professional development (CPD).
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United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust Specialisms: Adult and child Opportunities across the Trust will be available in a variety of specialty settings including medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, A&E, theatres, elderly care, critical care, emergency admission units, general paediatric inpatient, assessment unit, day case and outpatients. Vacancies are available at our three main sites in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham.
University of Derby Specialisms: Child The University of Derby offers a breadth of study opportunities including; therapeutic arts, social work, radiography and psychotherapy. Students can study toward a specialist community practice award such as health visiting, school nursing or district nursing. Come and talk to us about your postgraduate course choices.
The University of Nottingham School of Health Sciences Specialisms: Adult, child and mental health At The University of Nottingham’s School of Health Sciences, we offer everything you need to achieve your career ambitions and meet the demands of modern healthcare in the 21st century. Providing a diverse range of postgraduate courses designed to fit flexibly around your career, the school has an impressive track record for teaching, research and practice development. We are consistently ranked in the top 10 of most subject league tables and our teaching is rated as excellent by the independent Quality Assurance Agency.
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