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Are you an experienced band 5 nurse who is looking for an exciting development post? Are you a newly qualified nurse or student nurse looking for your first band 5 role?
How would you like to have a unique opportunity to experience a variety of clinical settings to support you to thrive as a registered nurse and enable you to develop the career path of your choice?
The role
We are inviting applications from newly qualified nurses and experienced band 5 nurses who are looking for a new challenge and career development. This is an exciting new role which will see you flourish, learn new skills and develop your talents to help you progress in your nursing career. Furthermore, if you are already an employee at the Trust, you can use the internal transfer process to join the rotation.
Main duties
Our Choose Your Own Rotation is a flexible programme. You will be given the opportunity to choose the three areas you want to gain experience in. This may include a role within medicine, surgery or even with one of our external partner - you could gain experience as a practice nurse at a GP surgery or choose to follow a patients' journey at Sulis Hospital. The choice is yours.
During each placement you will spend six months learning from professional clinicians and deliver care to people from all walks of life. You'll see life from new angles and accelerate your learning, helping you gain a broad range of new clinical skills.
By the end of the 18 month Choose Your Own Rotation you will have:
- A strong skills set in nursing
- Confidence and competence in different areas
- Become a flexible and dynamic nurse - a great quality to have for future roles
- Resilience and gained new leadership skills
- The opportunity to make a change of direction in your nursing role
- Future career options in front of you
You will be joining our community at Team RUH and be supported through the rotation by our Talent Manager. At the end of the rotation you can choose the area that you want to pursue a career in. Subject to vacancy and suitability, you will be able to join a team as a band 5 nurse on a permanent post.
About us
At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.
Due to the nature of this role, we require candidates who apply to have current right to work in the UK. We value and encourage all international applications to please apply to work with our trust to do so via our international nursing campaign. Please follow the link below. You can get in touch at https://www.medacs.com
About you
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice either at the level of a newly qualified nurse or as a more experienced nurse.
Desirable
- Understanding of equality & diversity and how to apply it to self and others.
- Understanding of NMC Code of Practice and requirements of it for own practice & behaviour.
Values
Essential
- Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental
- Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring
- Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, their role and where they work
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.
