Job overview
Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals is looking to recruit enthusiastic newly qualified registered nurses who are due to qualify between January 2024 and March 2024 to join our established multi-disciplinary teams providing high quality care across our three sites. You will be joining an organisation that is focused on supporting newly qualified nurses to consolidate their skills and knowledge.
We provide all newly qualified nurses with a 12 month preceptorship programme that will support you in your career transition delivered by clinical educators and specialist teams both face to face and via teams.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team in a supportive clinical environment. You will complete the Trust’s Preceptorship package supported by our dedicated clinical education team, using our excellent education facilities and supported by our specialist teams.
During the preceptorship period you will provide care across your chosen pathway where you will be encouraged to identify your strengths and highlight the areas requiring further development for the benefit of the patients in your care. This in turn will enable you to become a confident and competent nurse, practicing in accordance with the NMC Code (2018) and give you the opportunity to prepare for your first NMC Revalidation in 3 years’ time.
Our goal is for DBTH to be the best place to work, delivering outstanding care, engaging with and listening to our staff, to understand their needs. Lifelong career development is key to our success and we will support you every step of the way consolidating and developing new skills and knowledge, across a range of parameters including clinical skills, research, education, leadership and quality improvement. We are proud to support flexible working where we can, to support maintenance of a good work life balance.
Working for our organisation
We have a range of registered nurse vacancies across the Trust including:
Surgery
Elective Surgery Wards - covering Urology, General Surgery, Vascular, Orthopaedic, Gynaecology & Breast
Emergency Wards - Surgical Assessment, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Urology, General Surgery, Vascular, ENT, Gynaecology & Breast.
Medicine
Emergency Wards –Frailty Assessment, Acute Medical, Acute Stroke, Rehab, Gastroenterology, Renal, Cardiology, Care of Older People, Respiratory, Diabetes & Endocrinology.
Other Areas
Emergency Departments
Critical Care Units
Theatres
Endoscopy
Diagnostic & Out Patient Services
Posts are available across a range of clinical areas and we are also able to support rotational posts across a number of pathways – with an agreed initial base ward / department being assigned at the point of recruitment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Up to date knowledge of professional issues
Experience
Essential criteria
2. Completion of Nurse Training Programme to obtain registration with the NMC
Interpersonal skills
Essential criteria
3. Demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills with multi-disciplinary team/client/ relatives.
Desirable criteria
4. Evidence of working effectively within the multi-disciplinary team
Organisational Skills
Essential criteria
5. Resourceful and able to work on own initiatives
Desirable criteria
6. Precise and methodical in working practice and able to work under own initiative.
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