Why join us?

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 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 staff with a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy workforce, support staff with health conditions and advise managers how to accommodate employee health needs.

Alongside this our staff 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.

What our staff say

“The work is varied and very busy – there is never a dull moment. The best thing about our work is that together we make a massive difference to patient lives.”

Dr Firoozan
Cardiac consultant

“Nursing isn’t what you do, it’s who you are. I know every day I will touch a life or a life will touch mine – they may forget my name but they will never forget what I did.”

Katy
Ward sister

“Caring for children means I can give something back. I like seeing their wee, sad faces become happy.”

Craig
Deputy charge nurse

“District nurses are highly trained practitioners with an advanced specialist qualification. I enjoy supporting patients with complex care needs and working within a team of skilled nurses.”

Clare
District Nurse

Benefits

Family friendly

Staff are entitled to maternity/ adoption leave, paternity leave and parental leave, and discounted rates at day nurseries on site at Amersham and Wycombe hospitals.

Schools in Buckinghamshire are amongst the best in the country, consistently performing above the national average.  Buckinghamshire is one of the few counties in England to offer grammar school education alongside comprehensive secondary education and is well-served by many independent schools for children from the ages of five to 18.

Healthier Lifestyles Hub

This is where our wellbeing team offers free and confidential support to staff, including advice on general emotional wellbeing, stress management, resilience and work/life balance, as well as meditation and mindfulness sessions.

Excellent locations

Stretching from the outskirts of London to the Midlands, Buckinghamshire offers a unique mix of bustling towns, picturesque villages and beautiful countryside encompassing the Chilterns designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Superb travel links give quick and easy access to the cities of London, Oxford, Milton Keynes and Birmingham. You can be in central London and at Heathrow or Luton airports in under an hour.

Recognition

You could win one of our monthly CARE awards (nominated by colleagues or the general public) or be honoured at our annual staff awards and celebration event.