Careers and Employability Service Nursing Careers Fair Wednesday 23 October 2013, 12–4pm Engineering and Science Learning Centre, University Park
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Welcome to our Nursing Careers Fair 2013 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 high-quality teachers in an inspiring environment. As a graduate of the University, there has never been a more exciting time to be in nursing. For those students who 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.
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 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 Sciences
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.
Contents 02 Welcome 03 Presentation schedule 04 Presentations
Employer profiles
05 British Army 05 Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 05 Critical Care – Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust 05 Cygnet Healthcare 05 Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 05 Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (DCHS) 05 HC-One 05 Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust 06 Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Doctors Without Borders
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06 Mercy Ships 06 NHS Professionals 06 Nottingham CityCare Partnership 06 Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust 06 Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 06 Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust/ Offender Health Directorate 07 Royal Navy 07 Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 07 UNITE the Union 07 United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust 07 University of Derby 07 The University of Nottingham – postgraduate study 07 The University of Nottingham – Nottingham Advantage Award
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Presentation schedule Room B01 12.30–1pm
The critical care experience
1.30–2pm
Transforming the health visiting service
2.30–3pm
Offender health
3.30–4pm
Career opportunities within a district hospital
Room B08 1–1.30pm
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS)
2–2.30pm
Career development with HC-One
3–3.30pm
A career in mental health services with Cygnet Health Care
Room B14 1–1.30pm
Neonatal – your future in child nursing
1.50–2.20pm
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corp (QARANC)
2.40–3.10pm
The health visitor and school nurse: a public health approach
3.30–4pm
Working as a nurse in the field with Medecins Sans Frontieres
CV and personal statement appointments You can book an appointment with a member of our team by signing up at the registration desk. Appointments available between 12pm and 4pm.
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Presentations Working as a nurse in the field with Medecins Sans Frontieres
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service
Career development with HC-One
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corp
As the world’s leading emergency medical humanitarian aid organisation, we offer emergency assistance to populations in dire distress, displacement, areas of armed conflict, natural disasters, epidemics, malnutrition. Find out more about HC-One and our established RCN accredited preceptorship competency framework.
Offender health – Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust/Offender Health Directorate
Explore the often hidden world of healthcare behind a prison wall, including the opportunities to develop your skills and work with a range of professionals and agencies providing total rehabilitation.
Career opportunities within a district hospital – Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
A range of staff from the Trust will provide an overview of job opportunities and professional development, flexible working opportunities and job rotations.
A career in mental health services with Cygnet Health Care As an independent provider of mental health services, staff and service users are at the heart of our organisation. We are committed to providing the highest levels of care to do this we need to recruit people who share this commitment.
This talk will highlight the need for professionally qualified nurses within the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserves. Hear about the unique working environment that the Royal Navy has to offer.
Nursing officers, registered nurses, healthcare assistants and student nurses deliver a high quality, adaptable and dedicated nursing care wherever the Army needs it. Are you interested?
The health visitor and school nurse: a public health approach – University of Derby
If you want to work in the community, using a public health approach with children and their families, then health visiting or school nursing is for you.
Neonatal – your future in child nursing Find out what you can expect from a career in neonatal nursing, recent sector developments and training. Also some top tips to help you get the job you want!
Transforming the health visiting service – Nottingham CityCare Partnership The role of the health visitor within the city of Nottingham, the job opportunities and varied role progression.
The critical care experience – Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
We care for a variety of specialities including major trauma and neurosurgery. Learning and development opportunities are highly supported. It is an exciting and challenging role – come and hear more.
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Employer profiles British Army
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (DCHS)
QARANC nurses have worked at the sharp end of military life throughout the last century. Opportunities exist for nursing officers, registered nurses, healthcare assistants and student nurses in postings varying from Ministry of Defence hospital units, primary health care, field hospitals and medical regiments. You could be dealing with a myriad of different casualties, many with poly traumas.
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.
Critical Care - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
We are recruiting band five nurses to our busy expanding Critical Care department. We care for a variety of specialities including major trauma and neurosurgery. Learning and development opportunities are highly promoted and supported. It is an exciting and challenging role.
Cygnet Health Care
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 RMNs and support workers to cover shifts as and when required. This is an ideal way for students to make some extra money while gaining experience of working at Cygnet and puts you in a great position if you want to apply to work for us on a permanent basis.
Derby Hospitals offers an exciting variety of opportunities for motivated and patient-focused staff. We are a large Trust that provides safe and effective care with diverse services including acute surgical, medical and midwifery admissions through to rehabilitation, community pathways and end of life care. Applications are welcomed for newly registered staff through our Clearing House.
DCHS understand that time to care for patients should be right at the heart of delivering care. If you’d like the opportunity to join our community and inpatient teams we have a number of roles ranging from healthcare assistants to community nurses and therapists.
HC-One
We have over 240 care homes across Scotland, England and Wales. Our Preceptorship Programme which is accredited with the RCN is considered as a transition phase for newly qualified nurses when continuing their professional development, building their confidence and further developing their competency. Most of our homes can consider both RGN and RMN qualifications.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
The Trust believes its employees are its best asset. LCHS wants to ensure all employees have a full and prosperous career enhancing the organisations visions and values. Whether it’s therapists, nursing, finance, human resources, business management admin, speech therapy or health visiting that is your chosen profession, we aim to be the employer of choice.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Doctors Without Borders
Doctors without Borders (MSF) 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, 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.
Mercy Ships
Mercy Ships operates the charity hospital ship, Africa Mercy, delivering free treatments, surgical training and medical development in West Africa. Dedicated teams, including theatre nurses, ward nurses and therapists, provide operations free-of-charge, for blindness, cleft-lip-and-palate, benign tumour, fistula repair, club feet, bowed legs, dental treatments, and other conditions.
NHS Professionals
NHS Professionals is the leading provider of managed flexible workforce services to the NHS. You will have access to competitive weekly pay, first choice of available shifts, paid annual leave, statutory maternity and paternity, sick pay, access to our ‘NHSP Stakeholder pension’ and free training and development opportunities.
Nottingham CityCare Partnership
Nottingham CityCare Partnership is the leading provider of NHS community services in Nottingham. We are a staff-led organisation here 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 opportunities for careers within CityCare and we are keen to increase the number of nurses working in our community teams.
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
We are constantly striving for excellence and believe the development opportunities available for our nursing workforce are important to achieve this. We offer a comprehensive, structured preceptorship period with support from specialist preceptorship nurses, plus an identified preceptor in the area of work to ease the transition from student to registered, accountable practitioner.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
The Local Services Division of the Trust provides their own internal Nursebank service to our inpatient areas. We also provide a preceptorship opportunity for newly qualified mental health nurses through the bank service. Full support from the bank professional nurse advisor and a dedicated mentor on the ward is provided.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust/ Offender Health Directorate The Offender Directorate offers you the chance to be a part of the largest NHS provision of healthcare within a prison environment. Our fully integrated healthcare delivery model includes nurses from a variety of backgrounds including adult, mental health, community and learning disabilities.
We have expertise in end of life care, substance misuse, triage and long term conditions. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team including a range of medical, nursing and allied health professionals.
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Royal Navy
University of Derby
We are looking for people to join as nursing officers or naval nurses, qualifying with a degree in adult or mental health nursing. If joining the regulars is not for you may wish to consider joining the Royal Naval Reserves, attending one of our Royal Naval Reserve units across the UK.
The University of Nottingham – postgraduate study
The Royal Navy is widely acknowledged to be amongst the best in the world. We offer great training, excellent professional development, good pay and conditions, and promotion prospects.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a progressive forward thinking Trust renowned for innovative practice and development. We have the ultimate blend of cutting edge technology and dedicated staff that together combines to create a fantastic patient experience. We are looking to expand our nursing teams and have a number of registered nurse vacancies across all specialities across the trust.
The University of Derby offers options to study toward a Specialist Community Practice award such as health visiting, school nursing or district nursing. The MSc in Advanced Practice or MSc Health and Social Care offer a mix of information that allows a portfolio of modules to meet your specific study requirements.
Courses are available for allied healthcare professionals.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy
The University of Nottingham – Nottingham Advantage Award
With more than 2,500 students taking part in over 150 modules, join our Nottingham Advantage Award to build on your extracurricular interests and personalise your career development. www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers/advantage
UNITE the Union
Unite the Union organises all nursing professions within the NHS and we negotiate the terms and conditions of all employees through the National Staff Council under Agenda for Change and the Job Evaluation Banding outcomes and national profiling. Unite encourages the development of the nursing profession and supports the role of all nurses in the health service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Our Trust can give you an insight into the National Health Service (NHS) and the excellent opportunities within the nursing career structure, including the benefits you can receive from working in the NHS and the added value that you can provide excellent patient care.
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