We provide opportunities for newly qualified staff in all healthcare professions. To support newly qualified staff we offer the following: 

• A comprehensive induction to the trust that includes both corporate induction and nursing and midwifery induction (where appropriate)

• Local induction 

• Preceptorship and Guardianship for newly qualified nurses 

• Education and career pathways 

• Health and wellbeing support

• Pastoral support - pastoral care is very important for newly qualified nurses. The trust provides a guardian, a registered nurse with many years’ experience; who acts as a point of contact and support for a newly qualified nurse, for all new nursing starters

Accommodation services

• The Royal Free Accommodation Services Department manages all nominations to trust partner accommodation. 

Newlon Housing Trust and Notting Hill Genesis Housing provide the trust partner accommodation on the Royal Free Hospital site. 

This accommodation consists of bedsits, en-suite bedsits and studios as well as one and two bed self-contained flats. Trust priorities and occupancy conditions apply. The department also provides information and advice for private rented properties, local hotels and bed and breakfast, housing advice, nominations to housing organisations and government assisted schemes. 

There is a dedicated member of staff based at Barnet Hospital who can advise and assist in private rented accommodation in the Barnet and Enfield areas.

Graduate Nurse Guarantee

Are you a student nurse who will qualify in 2020? Have you undertaken your clinical placements within the organisations of North Central London?

Then look no further we have an exciting career waiting for you with our Graduate Nurse Guarantee.

5-step Graduate Nurse Guarantee

1. A guarantee of an interview following your application.

2. No assessment other than a short values-based interview. The values either being those of the trust you are applying for, or those of the NHS.

3. Conditional offer within one working day of a successful interview (this may vary if employers are holding more than one recruitment event).

4. You will be supported by a one year CapitalNurse Preceptorship programme in any trust you choose.

5. Opportunity to work as a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker after successful completion of your degree programme until your NMC registration is confirmed (local variation may apply).

Joining the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme gives you every opportunity to have a far-reaching and positive impact on the health of the nation - even while you’re training to become an NHS leader of the future.

When you join one of our specialisms, you’ll gain an in-depth insight into the workings of a much-loved, vitally important organisation - and see how every area works together to put patients at the heart of everything we do. You’ll learn from a wide variety of NHS professionals - both clinical and non-clinical – and from patients and their families too. Your work will change processes, inform big decisions, make vital savings and improve lives. As well as growing your understanding, experience and knowledge, you’ll build and grow a professional and social network – gaining both skills and friends for life.

Learning to lead the future. Leading to improve lives. 
We aim to provide a well-rounded learning package covering all of the criteria associated with successful leadership. 

To prepare you for the journey towards becoming a leader of the future, to improve people’s health and their experience of the NHS, we commission a range of academic, professional and personal education and development opportunities from some of the best learning providers in the UK.

Leadership and an introduction to the NHS
The NHS is a complex organisation, and we recognise that you’ll need an intense and robust introduction to both how it operates and how it is structured, to get you up to speed. As well as growing your understanding of the different organisations and functions, you’ll gain a strategic overview of the NHS - and the policies and drivers shaping the direction it’s heading in.

NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme
The Royal Free also hosts graduate trainees from the Graduate Management Training Scheme, as we are trusted to provide excellent developmental opportunities and support the rapid progression towards leadership positions. The Royal Free Trust proudly promotes this culture of continuous learning and leadership development, driven by our internal organisational development consultancy service who bring their expertise to develop the capability of our leaders in an agile way.