NHS recruitment event for nurses

There is an invitation for registered nurses and thirdyear adult nursing students due to qualify early in 2020 to attend a South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust recruitment event.

The call comes as Alan Dobbs, inset, has readjusted to his new job as a staff nurse with South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust at Sunderland Royal Hospital, having started as a ward clerk before embarking on a career in nursing.

Alan, 33, originally did a degree in computing, but when he graduated in 2008 he was unsuccessful in obtaining a job in this field and worked as a customer service advisor at a supermarket before becoming a ward clerk in the Emergency Ambulatory Care Unit at Sunderland Royal in 2014.

Alan is working in emergency care after successfully completing a three-year BSc Adult Nursing course at Northumbria University and is now looking forward to getting on with the task of making a difference in his patients’ lives. Alan said: “My manager initially encouraged me under the Trust’s ‘Get Into Nursing’ scheme to apply to be a healthcare assistant in order to see if nursing was right for me and help me get onto a nursing degree course.

“I got the position and I spent six months working in surgical areas and six months in medical at Sunderland Royal Hospital, which convinced me that I was making the right decision.”

The event is on Thursday at Haven Court, in the grounds of South Tyneside District Hospital, between