NHS Opportunity: Nurse Adult Branch

Nurse adult branch Current Vacancies

2006-11-27:

Qualified nurses can specialise in areas such as accident and emergency, cardiac rehabilitation, outpatients, neonatal nursing, or operating theatre work.

Nurses can also work in the community, for example, in walk-in health centres, clinics, schools, or prisons.

Practice nurses work in doctors surgeries. treating minor injuries - taking blood samples - health screening - family planning.

Some nurses work extra hours, either as overtime or for nursing agencies that supply staff to the private sector.

Adult branch nurses can work in a variety of settings including hospitals, hospices, GP surgeries, schools, private hospitals, prisons, or in the community visiting patients at home.

The NHS is the largest employer of nurses.
There are also opportunities to work for nursing agencies or be self-employed.

Promotion for registered nurses is usually to sister or charge nurse, responsible for managing a hospital ward, clinic or department, or a team of nurses in the community.

Some nurses choose to move into more general NHS management.

Newly qualified nurses working in the NHS earn between 17,600 and 19,500 a year.
Sisters and charge nurses can earn between 24,000 and 29,000.
Nurse specialists are paid from 27,500 to 32,000.
A small number of nurse consultants earn between 37,000 to 51,000. (Permalink)