Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

We’re delighted to be the first NHS Trust in England to take a joined-up approach to providing:

• Clinical

• Acute hospital

• Community Health

• Mental Health

• Learning Disability

• Medical

• Dental Care Services

In November 2021, we are proud to announce we won a HSJ Award for ‘Mental Health Trust of the year’.

Our Trust is currently merging with Yeovil District Hospital to become one Trust covering the whole of Somerset.

Our Services

At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we have a huge range of opportunities available whether you’re from an Allied Health Professional & Psychology, Nursing or Midwifery background areas including: Mental Health, Stroke, IRT, Rapid Response, Discharge to Assess, Paeds, Learning Disabilities, Acute, MSK

12 Community Hospitals

Our 12 community inpatient wards provide specialist services across Somerset for adult patients who need 24-hour inpatient care for a combination of medical and physical needs.

Bridgwater Hospital, Burnham-On-Sea Hospital, Crewkerne Hospital, Chard Hospital, Frome Hospital, Minehead Hospital, Shepton Mallet Hospital, South Petherton Hospital, Wellington Hospital, West Mendip Hospital (Glastonbury), Williton Hospital, Wincanton Hospital.

Rapid Response / Discharge to Assess

Discharge to Assess (which you may hear referred to as D2A) has been created to help people get home more quickly, offering a range of services including assessment (measuring your health and ability to perform everyday tasks) and rehabilitation (helping you get back to your normal life). emailed Tamsin for document

MIU (Minor Injury Units)

We have MIUs in community hospitals based at Frome, Glastonbury, Shepton Mallet, Chard, Bridgwater, Minehead and Burnham-on-Sea. They are all run by emergency nurse practitioners, who are nurses with specialised training and skills in emergency and urgent care.

District Nursing

Our District Nursing is split into geographical neighbourhoods: North Sedgemoor, Minehead, Taunton, South Somerset, Mendips. The main focus is to provide nursing care to housebound patients in the home or residential care environment. Our district nursing service offers planned, individualised, patient centred care.

Mental Health

On Thursday 18 November the Health Service Journal held its annual ‘HSJ Awards’ ceremony in London, where we were honoured to be awarded Mental Health Trust of the Year, having been shortlisted for the second year running.

Our trust provides mental health services to all age ranges and supports people with a range of mental health problems whether they are mild, moderate, or severe. It’s what makes the Trust an exciting and dynamic environment in which to work and build a progressive career.

Our Preceptorship programme:

Preceptorship is a period to guide and support all newly qualified practitioners in the transition from student to autonomous practitioner.

We offer a fully integrated multi-disciplinary preceptorship programme.

• Open to all newly qualified staff

• Separated into dual stranded approach where preceptees come together for development sessions while the clinical competencies are delivered on the ground within your clinical team

• Offering a virtual delivery to ensure maximum flexibility and accessibility for colleagues and teams

• Looking to align the programme across the whole Somerset system.

What can we offer you?

We have ample development opportunities for our staff to engage in. We offer contract opportunities in fixed term, permanent, bank, secondments (internal secondments to other areas within the trust), rotational posts across the trust and much more!

We have excellent on-site training facilities both via e-learning and face to face.

Our benefits include:

• Annual staff recognition awards

• Relocation packages

• Excellent annual leave entitlement – 27 days + bank holidays, raising to 29 after 5 years’ service and 33 after 10 years’ service

• Fantastic support with staff wellbeing including access to a 24/7 counselling service for staff

• Are you newly qualified? We cover the cost of your first year’s PIN registrations

• Supportive preceptorship programme for all newly qualified staff

• 1 to 1 supervision and appraisal processes in place as well as informal support from colleagues whenever needed

• NHS pension scheme

• NHS staff discount at various shops and restaurants

Bank

The Bank Team for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is unique. There are so many opportunities to work across the organisation and to learn new skills and to grow as an NHS worker through experience. We can now offer you a variety of places to work, specific training and supported induction in areas from admin and non-clinical areas through to clinical skills in Acute, Community and Mental health areas. Joining our bank works as a good steppingstone if you are looking to work full time in an area, building your experience around your studies, or if you are working around a busy family life.