Careers

At North Bristol NHS Trust, we will support you to be the best nurse that you can be. From day one, you will benefit from strong nursing leadership, experienced role models and a structured support network to maximise your wellbeing and professional development. 

Roles include:

• Registered Nurse.

• Healthcare Support Worker.

• Nursing Associates.

• Return to Practice Nurse.

Our clinical teams provide patient centered care over a wide range of specialties in our five clinical divisions:​ 

• Medicine Division – specialties include Cardiology, Respiratory, Acute Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Gastroenterology, Haematology, Complex Care, Elgar Enablement Unit, Complex Assessment Unit.​ 

• Anaesthesia, Surgery, Critical Care and Renal Division – specialties include Intensive Care, Renal and Haemodialysis, Surgical Admission – Surgical Assessment Unit, Vascular, Burns and Plastics, General Surgery, Theatres and Medirooms​. 

• Neurosciences and Musculoskeletal Division – Stroke, Neurosurgery, Spines, Pain, Elective Orthopaedics, Trauma, Neurology, Rheumatology, Neuropsychiatry, Neurophysiology, Bristol Centre for Enablement, Neuropathology, Bristol Speech and Language Therapy. 

• Women and Children’s Health Division – Neonatal Intensive Care and Gynaecology. 

• Core Clinical Services Division – Outpatients and Interventional Radiology. 

We support our nurses to gain experience in all areas and can build a bespoke rotation to support the career pathway of your choice.

Our dedicated Women and Children’s Health Division at North Bristol NHS Trust provides maternity services for the Trust. We can offer midwives many exciting opportunities that will help to develop skills in all areas of maternity care, including in our antenatal, postnatal and birth settings, including the central delivery suite and midwifery led birth centres. We are proud to co-produce our services with the Local Maternity System and Maternity Voices Partnerships. 

Roles include:

• Registered Midwife

• Maternity Support Worker

• Return to Practice Midwife

• Obstetric Sonographer

Our Maternity Services at North Bristol NHS Trust include the following: 

• 24hr antenatal assessment unit 

•  Mendip Birth Centre - An alongside midwifery unit which support approx. 500 births per year in the birth centre and at home. 

• Cossham Birth Centre – a freestanding midwifery unit with up to 150 births per year. 

• A 15 bed Consultant led Obstetric Unit, including dedicated space for providing Level 2 High Dependency care and a newly refurbished bereavement suite 

• Cross city maternal medicine services with specialist endocrine, epilepsy, haematology and renal clinics. 

• A Fetal Medicine Service including preterm clinics. 

• A Community Midwifery Service which covers South Gloucestershire, North Bristol and North Somerset. 

• Specialist Midwifery services including bereavement midwives, complex care midwives, perinatal mental health team, practice development team, infant feeding team and fetal monitoring midwives. 

•  Collaborative working with the Trust theatre teams in the provision of elective and emergency maternity theatre care. 

•  Our Continuous Improvement and Learning Team, which has previously been awarded Healthcare Team of the Year at North Bristol NHS Trusts’ Annual Staff Awards.  

Allied Health Professionals play an integral role in supporting our patients from admission, throughout their hospital stay and long after discharge. The high-quality care that patients receive, not only medically but therapeutically would not be possible without the excellent multidisciplinary approach that Allied Health Professionals provide at North Bristol NHS Trust. 

Roles include:

• Radiographer
• Occupational Therapist
• Physiotherapist
• Dietition
• Speech and Language Therapist
• Operating Department Practitioner
• Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Support Worker

Our clinical teams provide outstanding patient care over a wide range of specialties in our five clinical divisions: 

• Medicine Division– specialties include Cardiology, Respiratory, Acute Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Gastroenterology, Haematology, Complex Care, Elgar Enablement Unit, Complex Assessment Unit. 
• Anaesthesia, Surgery, Critical Care and Renal Division – specialties include Intensive Care, Renal and Haemodialysis, Surgical Admission – Surgical Assessment Unit, Vascular, Burns and Plastics, General Surgery, Theatres and Medirooms. 
• Neurosciences and Musculoskeletal Division– Stroke, Neurosurgery, Spines, Pain, Elective Orthopaedics, Trauma, Neurology, Rheumatology, Neuropsychiatry, Neurophysiology, Bristol Centre for Enablement (including prosthetics and orthotics), Neuropathology, Bristol Speech and Language Therapy. 
• Women and Children’s Health Division – Neonatal Intensive Care and Gynaecology. 
• Core Clinical Services Division – Outpatients, Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Therapies.

At North Bristol NHS Trust, we have internationally renowned medical teams delivering incredible outcomes for our patients. For many years we have been at the forefront of new medical techniques and innovations, including brain and spinal surgery, joint replacement and the world’s first radar breast imaging system, to name a few.  

Roles include:

• Consultant.

• Clinical Fellow.

• Locum Doctor.

• Junior Doctor.

Our medical teams provided exceptional healthcare over a wide range of specialties in our five clinical divisions:​ 

• Medicine Division –  specialties include Cardiology, Respiratory, Acute Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Gastroenterology, Haematology, Geriatric Medicine, Palliative Medicine. 

• Anaesthesia, Surgery, Critical Care and Renal Division –  specialties include Intensive Care, Renal, Anaesthetics, Vascular Surgery, Burns and Plastics Surgery, General Surgery, Breast Surgery, Breast Radiology, Endocrinology & Transplant Surgery. 

• Neurosciences and Musculoskeletal Division – Stroke, Neurosurgery, Spines, Pain, Elective Orthopaedics, Trauma, Neurology, Rheumatology, Neuropsychiatry, Neurophysiology, Bristol Centre for Enablement, Neuropathology, Rehabilitation Medicine. 

• Women and Children’s Health Division – Neonatal Intensive Care, Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 

• Core Clinical Services Division – Radiology, Histopathology, Microbiology, Clinical Biochemistry. 

Our Operational Estates and Facilities team provide essential support services to ensure the smooth running of our services, with over 900 staff working across a range of specialties and job roles. 

Roles include:

• Catering roles
• Domestic Operatives (Cleaner)
• Porting Operative (Porter)
• Housekeeper
• Receipt and Distribution Assistants
• Materials Management Assistants

Our pioneering Healthcare Science and Pharmacy teams provide an excellent service to innovative care within the Trust.

Roles include:

• Pharmacy Team.

• Pathology Team.

• Healthcare Scientists.

• Cardiac Physiologists.

Severn Pathology, based at Southmead Hospital, aims to provide a best in class, high quality, innovative, value for money pathology service that serves the needs of the healthcare market in the South-West region. The multi-million pound, four storey building houses NBT’s cellular pathology, neuropathology, genetics and microbiology services and is part of the Science Quarter, which brings together NBT, UK Health Security Agency and the University of Bristol.   

We also host dedicated dispensary and clinical pharmacy teams in our award-winning Brunel building, optimising the use of medication to promote the health, wellness and disease prevention of patients. 

Our dedicated professionals in a wide range of administration and corporate roles enable our Trust to provide the best care possible for our patients and wider health and care services.

Roles include:

• Administrators.

• Medical Secretaries.

• Audio-Typists.

• IT Support Engineers.

• Information Analysts.

• Clinical Coders.

• Finance roles.

• HR and Recruitment roles. 

• Communications roles. 

Our vision is to realise the great potential of our organisation by empowering our skilled and caring staff to deliver high-quality, financially sustainable services in state-of-the-art facilities. Clinical outcomes will be excellent and with a spirit of openness and candour, we will ensure an outstanding experience for our patients.  

In our most recent CQC inspection, our Trust was rated as “Good”, a major benchmark of high quality and effective services. Crucially, the Trust’s approach to caring for patients was rated Outstanding, as was the way our organisation is led. Of the 37 domains inspected on this occasion, which make up the Trust’s overall rating, 31 were either rated as Good or Outstanding.  

We are proud of our leaders, working in a wide range of roles and specialties to ensure we deliver outstanding patient care across our Trust. At North Bristol NHS Trust, we value all people as individuals. We are an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We strive to be truly inclusive. 

We also work closely partner organisations across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) as part of the Healthier Together BNSSG Integrated Care Board to ensure we realise the opportunities which come from working across the wider health and care system.  

We are proud to deliver clinical apprenticeship training and education through our partnership with the South West Association of Training Providers (SWATPro), as well as non-clinical apprenticeships training under our own  Apprenticeship Centre, which has been awarded the Matrix Accreditation, in recognition of the high-quality information, advice and guidance they offer.

We work closely with local schools and colleges to provide opportunities for young people to gain knowledge and experience of different roles and raise awareness of career options and job opportunities within the NHS.

There are over 350 potential career options in healthcare and opportunities for work experience include clinical and administrative areas, allowing participants to learn about working in the NHS, develop new skills, learn about their strengths and weaknesses and increase their confidence.

Are you looking for a flexible job with great pay rates? Welcome to NBTeXtra!

NBT eXtra works within our Trust to fill temporary gaps in the workforce with existing staff or through trusted external suppliers.

Being part of our bank allows healthcare professionals to adjust their shift patterns to better fit their lifestyle. Our shifts can be booked up to six weeks in advance, or at late notice, and can suit your childcare arrangements or your substantive position with us.

Our Trust hosts internal events where you can meet representatives to find out more about working life and opportunities within the Trust. We also attend external events, both locally and nationally.