Work With Us Newsletter - April 2022
Welcome to the NHS Dumfries & Galloway Work With Us Newsletter. This newsletter will highlight jobs of the month within our Health Board, as well as some news stories we think might be of interest to you. Scroll down to see our current jobs of the month.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway are delighted to have welcomed its first cohort of four International nurses to the region who arrived last weekend.
Shincy, Sonja, Yafika and Vidya are all fully trained and very experienced nurses in their own country but will require additional support on arrival to gain their UK registration to practice. Once registered, three nurses will be working on our Critical Care Unit and one in our community hospital at Mountainhall.
Their arrival marks the start of a yearlong campaign to recruit forty nurses from overseas to settle and become part of our already 2000+ nursing community.
This campaign is to address our local shortages but is also part of a wider NHS Scotland campaign supported by Scottish Government to address the national shortages of nurses.
Vic Mc Dade – Workforce Sustainability Manager and the project lead said of the campaign, “It has been a long time in the making, so it is great to have our first cohort arrive. What is more exciting is that we have a further one arriving in May and another ten offers and checks are being progressed for a start in July.”
Our new nurses will undergo 8-12 weeks of intense training to secure their UK NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council) registration before they can fully practice as a nurse and in that time the Workforce Sustainability team and Clinical Education team have put together a full programme of support to meet their educational and pastoral needs.
Christina Hoare the Clinical Education Lead who has overall responsibility for their education needs, has recently recruited Carla Young to the team to provide bespoke training. “There is a lot of pressure on Carla and the team to ensure these nurses pass their registration. We are one of the first boards along with Fife and Grampian to start the programme. We have every confidence that the training we have in place and the integrated approach between training and shadowing will give them the time to build relationships in work and the community before jumping into a busy work life.”
Shincy one our nurses said of her arrival, “it was a long flight but it was great to be met by one of the team at the airport. On Saturday we were shown around Dumfries and met some lovely people from the Multicultural Association who kindly gave us a food parcel and a warm coat. It has made us feel really welcome and we are really excited to be here and get started.
The Workforce team are appealing to anyone living in the region who has previously practiced as a Nurse and gained their primary qualifications outside of the UK and would like to now explore a career in nursing to contact the team, at dg.jobs@nhs.scot, to see how the Board can support you, now that we have training facilities in place.
Welcome!
At the start of the year we welcomed Dr Mignon Gerrits to NHS Dumfries and Galloway as one of our Neurology Consultants with a special interest in Parkinson’s Disease.
Mignon and her family have joined us from The Netherlands and are now living in Dumfries and Galloway.
While having a catch up with Mignon last month, she mentioned that she loves waking up to the sound of the sheep, she has found some great places to visit within Dumfries & Galloway, as well as lovely country walks and new activities with the family and now has a great work life balance.
Job Vacancies Of The Month
See below some of our current vacancies - Not for you, but know someone who might be interested? Feel free to share!
Consultant - Cardiologist
Applications are invited for a dynamic and enthusiastic Cardiology Consultant to join our forward thinking multidisciplinary Cardiology team in NHS Dumfries and Galloway, encompassing three Consultants, a Speciality Doctor, two rotating Middle Graders, two Cardiology Nurse Specialists, Rehabilitation Team and Heart Failure Nurses. The clinical team provides a broad range of cardiology services to a population of 148,000 across 2,500 square miles of South West Scotland. If desired, the successful applicant may negotiate spending one day each week (2PAs) pursuing their sub-specialty interest.
Based in Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary there is a full range of investigative and treatment facilities on-site which can be found in the Job Description. An example of some of the facilities include; treadmill exercise testing, transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography with Doppler, with facilities for stress echocardiography and 3-D imaging (3 echo machines including Philips IE33), tilt-testing, holter monitoring (including 4-5 community-based sites for undertaking recordings with central analysis); CT coronary angiography.
The successful applicant will be part of a team responsible for making changes to enhance our current service and make a significant contribution to key clinical changes for our new hospital.
Dumfries is located in the South West of Scotland, famed for its high standard of local schools, college, university and affordable housing. Dumfries and Galloway is a popular tourist resort for many outdoor activities including golfing, walking, cycling and mountain biking plus an indoor ice sports centre with nationally high achieving skating teams. For water sport enthusiasts there is a local yacht club. There are good transport links to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle.
Prospective candidates will require to be on the GMC Specialist Register and will hold a CCT or be within 6 months of obtaining the certificate.
Applications for part-time or job share employment are also welcome.
For further details please click on the below link
https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=91014
Closing date: 03/06/22
Inpatient Occupational Therapist
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our Mental Health Occupational Therapy Team. You will support both the inpatient OT team and the wider Multi-disciplinary inpatients service. In this role you will enable us to provide mental health occupational therapy assessment and interventions to the mental health inpatient service at Midpark Hospital and offer additional cover as required to other services within our directorate. This will enable us to continue to make a positive difference to the lives of individuals who experience a range of complex mental health difficulties.
You will have excellent communication skills and networking skills and the ability to think creatively. You will have knowledge of occupational therapy assessments and interventions and be able to provide specialist written and verbal reports. You will have an ability to work safely and efficiently both as an autonomous practitioner and as part of the wider multi-disciplinary teams. You will have necessary skills to contribute to professional discussion and development of occupational therapy services. This will post will focus on ensuring access to high quality, specialist occupational therapy assessments and interventions as well as safe, timely and efficient discharge from hospital and community settings. You will have the opportunity to support and develop designated quality and service improvement projects. You will contribute to staff supervision and development of Occupational therapy staff and the wider MDT.
Staff have noted that we offer excellent opportunities for professional development, supervision and training and are a friendly, innovative and welcoming team.
Part time hours may be considered for the appropriate candidate(please contact us to discuss)
In addition to spectacular countryside and outdoor pursuits, Dumfries and Galloway offers you and your family beautiful and affordable housing, schools which perform consistently well in national rankings and easy and convenient commutes for a more relaxed quality of life. Many of our staff have been drawn to the region by the exceptional career opportunities, plus the improved work life balance and focus on family life are also great attractions. The region offers all the advantages of life in local towns with friendly and safe neighbourhoods and good quality facilities on your doorstep. In addition, the main city centres are within reach if on occasion you want a little more.
For further details please click on the below link
https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=85156
Closing date: 18/05/22
Mental Health Nurse - Dumfries Prison
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Team that provides health care services for people in HMP Dumfries. We are looking for an RMN with a range of experience and skills to join our multidisciplinary team and enhance our developing service. The services provides a range of interventions to improve people’s physical and mental health including work to support people with alcohol and/or drug problems
In return we can offer regular supportive management with access to courses and training opportunities to further develop your knowledge and skills.
The post-holder will be responsible for the assessment of needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of individual planned care provided by themselves together with other members of the multidisciplinary team. The successful applicant will not require having experience of working in a custodial setting and may be a newly qualified practitioner who can demonstrate they have the required knowledge and skills to work in this setting. Additional training is provided by Scottish Prison Service in relation to maintaining safety and security
For further details please click on the below link
https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=89701
Closing Date: 03/05/22
An opportunity has arisen to join our friendly dynamic team consisting of two Consultant Histopathologists and a Specialty Doctor. The team is supported by an Advanced Practitioner, a BMS dissection team and Laboratory Biomedical Scientists and Healthcare Support Worker staff. The successful candidate will have a chance to develop a specialist interest in an area of the Histopathology service with support from the wider regional teams.
This post is based in the new Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, a district general hospital with a major reputation for delivering quality care as well as being at the forefront of innovative practice. The range of services provided by the hospital is, by virtue of its geographical location, considerably more wide and complex than many much larger traditional district general hospitals.
The Department provides a wide range of clinical diagnostic and advisory services supported by scientific facilities in three inter-related disciplines:
• Histopathology (approximately 11000 requests per year)
• Diagnostic Cytopathology (500 -1000 requests per year)
• Mortuary and Autopsy services (150 autopsies per year)
In addition to routine diagnostic services expected for a district general hospital, Dumfries & Galloway is accredited as a Cancer Unit for the diagnosis and management of common cancers including Skin, Head & Neck, Breast, Colorectal & upper Gastrointestinal, Respiratory, Urological, Haematological, Gynaecological malignancies.
Applicants must hold FRCPath in Histopathology and have completed a period of training in Pathology that is recognised by the Royal College of Pathologists. They should be on, or eligible for, inclusion on the specialist register within six months of appointment.
The region offers beautiful countryside, from rugged cliffs and sandy beaches to forests, hills and rolling plains. There is a wide range of activities on offer, with water sports, hiking, fishing, bird watching, golf, mountain-biking or cycling along the network of rural roads and much more. There are also lots of family friendly attractions- farm parks, soft plays etc. House prices are low in comparison to other areas of the UK (some recently appointed consultant have now swapped 3 bedroom houses for farms with many acres of land), schools are good and you are within 1.5 hours of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lake District and Newcastle to enjoy the variety of city and country life.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway offer a full relocation package.
For further details please click on the below link
https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=88376
Closing Date: 12/05/22
Staff Nurse - Various Contract Options
The Acute Medical Unit is part of the Emergency Care Centre. We provide acute assessment and treatment of patients with medical complaints. We play a pivotal role in maintaining flow throughout the hospital from our emergency department and to the receiving wards.
The post holder will be required to work in all areas of the unit and staff are allocated daily, to work areas. We have an 18 bedded initial assessment area, 24 short stay inpatient beds. The 24 medical beds are broken up into 2 PODs of 12 patients.
The Combined Assessment Unit is a fast paced dynamic environment and the post holder will be involved in working with the Multi-disciplinary teams in providing safe and effective patient care.The post holder will be part of the CAU team where we are committed to ensuring the best possible patient centred care is provided. We deal with a wide variety of patients ranging from minor investigations to complex medical care which provides nursing staff with a wide range of clinical knowledge and experience with continued learning and development within the team.
We have various contract options available (fixed term and permanent) and have both full-time (37.5) and part-time hours available.
The Acute medical Unit is part of the Emergency Care Centre. We provide acute assessment and treatment of patients with medical complaints. We play a pivotal role in maintaining flow throughout the hospital from our emergency department and to the receiving wards.
The post holder will be required to work in all areas of the unit and staff are allocated daily, to work areas. We have an 18 bedded initial assessment area, 24 short stay inpatient beds. The 24 medical beds are broken up into 2 PODs of 12 patients.
The Combined Assessment Unit is a fast paced dynamic environment and the post holder will be involved in working with the Multi-disciplinary teams in providing safe and effective patient care.The post holder will be part of the CAU team where we are committed to ensuring the best possible patient centred care is provided. We deal with a wide variety of patients ranging from minor investigations to complex medical care which provides nursing staff with a wide range of clinical knowledge and experience with continued learning and development within the team.
We have various contract options available (fixed term and permanent) and have both full-time (37.5) and part-time hours available.
For further details please click on the below link
https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=87327
Closing Date: 10/05/22
Community Children Nurse
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered Children’s Nurse to join our small but dynamic Community Children’s Nursing Team. If you enjoy working independently and in a wide variety of settings but with the support of a team then this post is for you.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Children’s Nurse to further develop their skills and knowledge in caring for children at home who have a wide variety of health conditions such as children with exceptional healthcare needs, and diabetes. You will be responsible for the nursing care of children from discharge through to home, supporting the children and their families to remain well at home and at school.
The main hub is located within The Willows Children Young People & Family Centre in Dumfries, which is a base for all community specialities. There is also satellite office space across Dumfries and Galloway for working with families as close to their homes as possible. Multidisciplinary working is part of everyday work and we will support you to develop your career here with us in Dumfries and Galloway NHS.
For further details please click on the below link
https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=96456
Closing Date: 06/05/22
If you have any questions we would love to hear from you : dg.jobs@nhs.scot
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Where is Dumfries and Galloway?
We are located in South West Scotland, a great central location between Scotland & England allowing easy travel north and south, in just a few hours you can be in a major city.
The region is home to approximately 150,000 and provides an amazing work-life balance for people at any stage of their career, with excellent education options and great house prices, on average 55% cheaper compared to cities in Scotland. If you love the outdoors, we have incredible scenery, beaches and loads of activities to enjoy in your free time. There is also a growing festival scene in D&G bringing the community together with something to offer everyone.
For information on NHS Dumfries & Galloway, including details of our facilities and beautiful surrondings, check out our Work, Live, Play digital Brochure below…
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