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Here at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, we want to tell your story. We want to help develop your career. With us, the opportunities are endless.
We strive to deliver the highest quality and safest care for more than a quarter of a million people. We aim to provide the right care, in the right place, at the right time – whether in the hospital or community settings across west Suffolk.
Community teams are part of our Trust, helping us to become a fully integrated health and care provider. We deliver services in a variety of settings. For example, people’s own homes, care homes, community hospital inpatient units and clinics, day centres, schools, GP surgeries and health centres. In addition at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket Community Hospital.
We take good care of each other, so together we can take good care of our patients.
Your health and wellbeing
Helping you maintain your health and wellbeing and manage a good work-life balance matters to us.
We offer staff holistic support to look after your mental and physical health. This includes:
- A partnership with Feel Good Suffolk to help people stop smoking, manage a healthy weight and be more active.
- Discounted membership at Abbeycroft Leisure, giving staff access to gym facilities, swimming pools and exercise classes
- A free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7, providing advice, resources and immediate support on a wide range of issues, including mental health, money worries, relationships and bereavement.
- Access to a staff support psychology team who provide extra emotional and mental wellbeing support for colleagues across the organisation
But that’s not all. Read more on our new starter page about how we’ll care for you when you join us.
What will you #BeKnown for?
We want to tell your story. Most importantly we want to help
develop your career.
The opportunities are endless.
Where possible we provide financial and professional support on masters, specialist training and advanced clinical practice programmes. This is led by service need. Our clinical skills team and laboratory, available at West Suffolk Hospital, help develop your practical skills. In addition, other members of staff offer resuscitation, outreach and health coaching opportunities.
All staff can take advantage of study and training days, building relationships across the Trust.
Our preceptorship programme offers newly qualified professionals a set of six study days during your first year here. You will meet fellow newly qualified members of staff. For example, radiographers, pharmacists, midwives, nurses, allied health professionals etc. Together you receive personal development around resilience, communication and leadership.
Whatever your role, whatever your ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.