Welcome to Nurse Bank. We supply appropriately skilled staff to cover temporary short-term shortages within nursing due to vacancies or when there is a short-term increase in work.
We aim to provide caring, suitably qualified and reliable nurses and healthcare support workers who are able to respond to staffing requirements on demand and for last minute requirements.
What are the advantages of joining Nurse Bank?
- Flexibility and variety - a variety of shift patterns to fit in with your personal circumstances which can be booked in advance
- Career prospects - diverse specialities to learn new skills and a foot in the door to access permanent employment opportunities
- Paid annual leave
- Paid leave for bank only staff
- Substantive staff are paid an additional payment of EWTD annual leave entitlement
- Enhanced rates of pay
- For nights, weekends and bank holidays
- For staff with the right skills in critical care and theatres
- Substantive staff up to Band 6 paid at their current incremental point when working in their own area
- Opportunity to work additional shifts as a substantive staff member
- Professional development – paid induction training and orientation shifts and access to internal courses and conferences
- Using specialist skills - experienced specialist nurses who only want to work in a specific specialty can be accommodated within areas such as emergency care
- Gain new experience – opportunities for student nurses who register as healthcare support workers on the bank to experience working in areas they have not undertaken a placement on through the university
- Access to the NHS pension scheme
- Free uniform
- Access to occupational health and wellbeing service
Who can apply to register with our Nurse Bank?
Registered nurses
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Active NMC Registration
- If you’re already employed with us there’s a fast-track process for joining the Nurse Bank
Health Care Support Workers
- People with experience of delivering personal care
- Individuals motivated to help others who are caring and compassionate
Our expectations
We expect you to be:
- Committed to our organisational values
- Deliver high standards of care to our patients
- Complete the required induction and training
- Make yourself available to work on a regular basis
How to join us
If you are interested in joining us we would love to have you as part of our team.
If you already work for this health board you will be able to apply for Nurse Bank as an internal candidate. The application form is available from the Nurse Bank intranet page, or you can email Nurse.bank2@wales.nhs.uk to request a form to be sent to you. Your line manager will need to sign your application form to confirm they are happy to support your application to nurse bank.
External candidates will need to apply via an external job advert, see below. A post will be advertised regularly for qualified nurses and also for HCSWs.
Nurse Bank also has an active Facebook Group, which you can apply to join once you are registered as a member of the bank.
The recruitment process
You should allow up to six weeks from the date of your interview to working with us and you will need to.
- Pass a face-to-face interview with a bank recruiter
- Provide appropriate qualification certificates
- Provide proof of identity and eligibility to work in the UK
- Provide suitable references
- Pass an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- Obtain our Occupational Health clearance
Contact us
01639 684401
E-mail nurse.bank2@wales.nhs.uk
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