Shropshire hospitals seeking nurses to fill vacancies
More recruitment days are being held to fill vacancies at Shropshire's two acute hospitals.
The latest event will take place to fill vacancies in a number of departments at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Telford's Princess Royal Hospital.
Last year it emerged the trust had spent £3 million on agency nurses and had tried to recruit nurses from the Philippines, Portugal and Spain.
But more than 150 new staff nurses, including those from abroad, and health care assistants have been recruited to work at Shropshire's hospitals in the last couple of months.
The upcoming event, organised by Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, will be held at Telford's Princess Royal Hospital on June 20.
Health bosses say the event is an excellent opportunity to meet members of the senior nursing team, including matrons and ward managers, have a tour of one of the hospital sites, and learn more about what the trust has to offer.
Sarah Bloomfield, director of nursing and quality at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, said: "Our recruitment day is an excellent opportunity for registered and student nurses to find out more about our hospitals and how the trust is a great place to work.
"We're looking for new recruits to display the caring and compassionate qualities we rightly require to provide the highest standard of care possible for our patients.
"We are very keen to encourage applications from registered nurses in community settings, including care homes and GP practices, who wish to come back into the acute hospital setting, and from student nurses due to qualify in the next six months."
There are opportunities to work in a variety of areas and wards including; acute medical units and short stay, acute stroke unit, respiratory, cardiology, endocrinology, frail and complex elderly care, gastroenterology, nephrology and rehabilitation.
Other opportunities are also available on a mixed colorectal and gastroenterology ward, in trauma and orthopaedics, head and neck, vascular, urology and intermediate care and on the surgical assessment unit/surgical short stay.
The trust's catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east.
