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Nursing Officer
- Posted By: RAF
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- Contact: 0845 605 5555
- Date Posted: 1st Dec 2008
- Salary: Excellent
- Location: Liverpool
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Nursing Officer
As a Nursing Officer in the RAF, You'll provide high standards of nursing care to RAF personnel, members of other Services and entitled civilians. Depending on your specialization, you'll spend most of your career dealing with the challenges of primary and secondary healthcare in both NHS and Military environment. You'll also supervise teams of junior nurses and medical assistants. In a primary care role, you'll be based in the medical on an RAF base - you could be running a well woman clinic one day and advising our senior officers about inoculations for travel abroad the next. As a secondary care specialist, you'll probably work within a military team in an NHS hospital with both civilian and military patients. But you could also spend a couple of days each month helping in our operational role - the aeromedical evacuation of casualties from overseas to hospitals in the UK. There are also opportunities to work within a Servcie hospital overseas.
Like most people in the RAF, you'll probably move jobs every few years, and each job is known as a tour. Most of your tours will be within your specialization but there are plently of opportunities to develop and take on new responsibilities - for example, you could find yourself providing logistical support to deployed medical operations or working within nurse education. Within your few years, you'll probably be detached overseas, for anything from a few days to a few months. You could find yourself working as a practice nurse canvas carrying out the aetomedical evacuation of patients from the front line.
Your First Tour
For your first tour, you'll probably be located within a military team in ab NHS hospital in the UK, where you'll be mentored by a more senior Nursing Officer. Opportunities include working in A & E, on the orthopaedic wards and within a tri-service rehabilitation unit. Your next tour will be working within your specialization.
Your Training
Initial Officer Training
Like all our officers, you'll begin your RAF career with initial Officer training at the RAF College Cranwell in Lincolnshire. You'll follow an 11 week course specially designed for professionally qualified entrants to the RAF. The course included fitness development, military training and academic study as well as practical outdoor leadership challenges.
Specialist Training
You'll then go on a 2 week course at an RAF training centre near Portsmouth, which is designed to familiarize you with medicine in a military environment, before starting your first tour.
Ongoing development
As a Nursing Officer, you'll have extensive opportunities for further professional development throughout your career in line with the Post-Registration Education and Practice of the Nursing and Midwifery Council. You'll have the chance to keep up to date in clinical practice, and we encourage you to attend nursing conferences and study days. You'll have the opportunity to attend specialist civilian and military courses, and to work full or part-time to gain undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Currently there are RAF Nursing Officers studying for BScs in Critical Care and Defence Nursing Studies and for MScs in Health Management
Your Future
Career Prospects
You'll join the RAF on a Short Service Commission of up to 6 years. Promotion to the rank of Flight Lieutenant is on a time served/satisfactory service basis. Further promotion to Squadron Leader and above is by competitive selection.]
Transferable Skills
As a Nursing Officer in the RAf, you'll have all the development opportunities and career prospects of your civilian counterparts, together with the chance to work around the world and gain unique nursing experiences. Most Nursing Officers return to civilian nursing when they decide to leave the RAF.
How to Join
You can join the RAF at any time, as long as you meet the entry qualifications set out below.
Entry Qualifications
Age Limits
23-38
Qualifications
Current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration on Part 1 of the register; In addition, you must have at least 2 years post-registration experience in an acute care environment and, ideally, an additional nursing qualification appropriate to RAF needs. You should also have GCSEs/SCEs at Grade C/3 or equivalent in English language and Maths.
Selection
You must pass professional interview and then undertake selection tests at the Officers and Aircrew Selection Centres at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. You'll spend 3 days at the selection centre where we'll assess your potential to develop officer qualities, including communication skills, self-motivation, maturity, physical fitness and leadership skills.
Nationality
You must have been a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland since birth.
Residency
Whether or not you were born in the United Kingdom, you should normally have resided there for 5 years immediatly preceding your application. However providing satisfactory enquiries can be made in your country of residence, we may be able to consider your application even if you have never lived in the UK
Equal Opportunites
The RAF values every individual's unique contribution, irrespective of race, ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or social background.
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