Working for Us

Why join Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust?

We care about your career

We are an exciting place to work. As an integrated Trust your career could span hospital and community health. You could work in one of our specialist areas of excellence, such as our stroke service, which is one of the best in the region. We are also a regional centre for burns and plastics, and our National Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) is famous across the globe.

We have a reputation for teaching and training excellence. There are modern, well equipped education centres and a library on our hospital sites with an active programme of continuing education. Our education, learning and development team continue to build both internal development programmes and engage with external education partners to ensure we are developing the right people in the right way.

The Trust also ranked second for medium acute trusts in the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) top 100 performing trusts across the UK for recruitment to research studies. We were among the first eight trusts nationally to be selected for the COVID-19 convalescence plasma trial and were in the first cohort nationally, amongst 25 hospitals, selected for the tocilizumab trial – only 50 sites in total out of 176 were selected.

We care about you

Our Occupational health and wellbeing department provides colleagues with a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy workforce, support colleagues with health conditions and advise managers how to accommodate employee health needs.

Alongside this our colleagues wellbeing team offer free confidential support, information and advice to anyone wanting to make positive changes in their lives. They do this at our healthier lifestyles hub and through outreach services across our hospital and community sites. Some of the services offered cover general emotional wellbeing, stress management, resilience and work/life balance, meditation for inter-personal relationships, as well as mindfulness sessions.

I started at Amersham Hospital Day nursery in 2019, doing part time work where I went in two days a week after school. When covid hit, I was lucky to be given the opportunity to increase my hours due to rooms having to create “bubbles” because of the pandemic, which allowed me to experience the job to its full extent. This showed me that I really enjoyed the job, enabling me to become part of the friendly team and boost my confidence. I then decided to look into an apprenticeship in childcare which I have done whilst working at the nursery, now leading to a potential career path.

About Us – The staff teams

The Nursery staff teams are a mixture of qualified, training and unqualified; some new and some who have worked at the Nurseries for more than 15 years; some older than others and some younger, male and female, British, European, Asian and South American – we come in all shapes and sizes! The childcare courses have changed over the years, so some staff have qualified via a full time two year college course and others whilst in the workplace or online. Some of our staff joined as students and were then employed once qualified. The staff are employed by the NHS and have a robust employment process. The Nurseries close for two training days each year so staff can undertake regular training courses e.g. safeguarding, first aid, food safety. Staff are encouraged to continue their professional development, whether taking degree courses and higher levels of qualification or day courses such as observing and planning for children’s development. We are supported by the local Council Early Years Team who visit, offer advice and hold training courses for staff to attend.

Many of our families have been with us for many years and we have employed some of our ‘old babies’ in part time positions whilst they are in school/college which keeps the relationship going even longer.

A focus on wellbeing, led by a staff champion, has been invaluable to the teams, encouraging us all to be mindful of ourselves and others and to have fun too. The close family feel of the Nursery teams was particularly noticeable during the pandemic, when we felt as though we were in our own ‘bubble’, seeing more of each other than our own family and friends. The Nurseries are in both a purpose-built building and a very old worn-out building – but it is the staff, the people who care for the children who make our Nurseries a special place to be.

For more information for working with us please get in touch.

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