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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, and offers a full range of district hospital services and community health services to a population of 1.6 million in Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology services across the wider region.
We employ more than 6,500 staff, with a turnover in excess of £370m in 2014/2015 and have approximately 900 beds.
Our main activities are:
- Cardiovascular care at our Cardiac Centre.
- Accident and Emergency at Blackpool Teaching Hospital
- Community Midwifery and Women and Children’s Services.
- Clinical research with an 80-strong team of nurses and doctors
- Community nursing and school nursing
- Recovery and rehabilitation for a variety of conditions including brain injury, stroke and elderly care.
- Sexual health and family planning services
- Wellbeing and lifestyle including mental health services, heart health campaigns, and smoking cessation services.
- End of life and palliative care.
A job that works with you
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Flexitime
Staff can vary their starting and finishing times each day at work. The flexitime system is available to a wide range of staff within the Trust.
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Job Sharing
Job sharing opportunities are available in varying capacities across the Trust. This provides increased opportunity for staff to achieve a work-life balance.
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Compressed Hours
Allows staff to work the same number of hours and therefore maintain the same level of pay but spread their working hours over fewer days.
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Term-time Working
Helps staff with children of school age, balance their working life and home life. This allows staff to work their full or part time hours during term time.
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Term-time Working
Helps staff with children of school age, balance their working life and home life. This allows staff to work their full or part time hours during term time.
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Accommodation
We can provide accommodation for Junior Doctors working at the hospital. We can also offer accommodation to other Healthcare Professionals.
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Childcare
The Trust provides on-site day nursery with flexible hours and is purpose-built with the capacity for 92 children aged from three months to five years.
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Holiday Playschemes
The Trust operates holiday playschemes throughout the year for the children of staff and are held at a number of venues throughout the Fylde Coast.
But that’s just the start of life in Blackpool
Proud Blackpoolians that work in healthcare
Medical Registrar
Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Clinical Improvement Nurse Lead
Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Blackpool Victoria Hospital
“Blackpool is a fantastic place to work. With the seaside at your doorstep, Beacon Fell a stone’s throw away and the countryside just around the corner you could not ask for a more diverse environment. With many activities and places to visit including farm shops, the Famous Bonds Ice Cream parlour in Elswick and the many nature reserves in the area you will always find fun things to do.”