Recruitment drive underway for new nurses

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has announced it is looking for “a number of talented and compassionate nurses” to take on a “wide range of new and existing posts.”

After recruitment first began during this summer, the hospital trust has now announced that another “wave of permanent posts” are to be recruited at Bassetlaw Hospital in Blyth Road, Worksop, to “ensure that patients receive the very best care.”

A spokesman for the trust said: “They cover a wide range of areas, including the inpatient medical wards, and there are opportunities for healthcare assistants, newly-qualified and experienced staff nurses, sisters and charge nurses, and a band seven ward manager.

“There are also posts available for nurses working across the A&E departments at Bassetlaw Hospital and Doncaster Royal Infirmary, and a couple of posts in the intensive care unit.”

Tracy Campbell, a matron for general and acute medicine at Bassetlaw Hospital, said that the hospital trust is “particularly looking for people who enjoy working as part of a team”, who “went into nursing because they care about patients, and who have a passion for learning and continually improving services.”

She added: “Bassetlaw Hospital is a fantastic place to work.

“We are really proud to serve the local community and want every patient to leave hospital feeling they have received excellent care from warm, friendly, expert staff who treated them with respect and dignity.

“We’re investing in additional bed capacity and appointing permanent staff where previously we might have used temporary nurses.

“That, combined with natural turnover as people retire or move to other parts of the country, means we now have a number of opportunities for talented nurses to join a great team in a hospital with a great ethos of caring and a warm and welcoming atmosphere.”

Hayley Farmer, meanwhile, moved from Doncaster Royal Infirmary earlier this year to work as a Sister in the assessment and treatment centre at Bassetlaw Hospital.

She said: “Bassetlaw is smaller than some of the other surrounding hospitals, but it has a vast and diverse patient population, enabling me to improve my clinical development on a daily basis within a friendly, caring culture.

“From my first day I could see there was a culture throughout the hospital where everyone is treated and respected as an individual.

“Patients and visitors are cared for in a friendly, personal way and every member of the team is valued.

“The people I work with are all totally engaged in providing excellent care and always looking for innovations that will further improve that care.

“The leadership and management are also excellent, leading by example and providing support to staff, both clinically and with education, training and professional development.”

Full details of the posts and how to apply can be found on the NHS website.

By creating new nursing posts and increasing the number of beds at the hospital, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals trust is bucking the trend across the region.

At the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust, a £38m plan is underway to shake up hospital services in a bid to secure the future of the trust, which has faced a string of financial problems in recent years.

Under the plans, NHS bosses want to centralise accident and emergency treatment at Pinderfields Hospital, reduce hospital stays and cut the number of beds.

Dewsbury’s A&E department would be downgraded to an urgent care centre, while the hospital would also lose its consultant-led maternity unit.

Meanwhile, Bridlington Hospital could lose more beds if mental health services are relocated to Hull, nearly an hour’s drive away.

Last month, health officials launched a consultation into the future of 12-bed Buckrose Ward.

Their preferred option is to create eight new beds at Newbridges and Westlands adult mental health inpatient units in Hull.

They say the move would address issues of “patient privacy and dignity” and cut travel times for patients from Haltemprice, Beverley, South Holderness and Goole.