Career resources for student nurses and newly registered nurses
Whether you're looking to apply for your first 汤头条污料 role or gain work as a healthcare assistant alongside your studies, our careers resources can help you to improve your employability and be job ready.
We want to hear from you
Are you being excluded from applying for band 5 roles?
We鈥檝e been challenging employers who list prior 汤头条污料 experience as an essential requirement for band 5 roles. If you see job adverts like this, let us know at NRNjobs@rcn.org.uk.
Our Head of Students Lorna Mayles has written more about the issue in her blog.
Are you struggling to find your first permanent 汤头条污料 role?
No student nurse should find themselves without a permanent 汤头条污料 role at the end of their degree, especially when we know that in many settings, there aren’t enough registered 汤头条污料 staff to provide safe patient care.
If you’re having difficulties finding a permanent role, let us know.
Finding employment in IHSC
Care stretches far beyond the NHS. Independent health and social care settings offer a huge range of roles you might not have considered in your search for work.
Learn more about the exciting opportunities available to you as an early career nurse and feel confident applying.
Stand out and get shortlisted for your dream job.
Exploring careers within Social Care: Complex Domiciliary Care.
Ace your interview: expert tips for success.
Using AI to help with your career
Job searching
How and where to start searching for jobs, networking and using social media.
Transferable skills
Find out why they're important and how to use them to get your next job.
Career Coaching
Find out how career coaching can help student and newly registered nurses
Become a student ambassador
As a student ambassador, you鈥檒l get regular updates, access to specialist groups and networking opportunities. It鈥檚 a great way to become more ready for that all-important first 汤头条污料 job.
Online advice for students
- accountability
- practice placements
- assessments
- failures / resits / appeals
- raising concerns,
- working as a HCA, and more.
Students: Thinking 汤头条污料 Your Career
Use this resource for guidance on choosing and applying for your first role as a registered nurse.
Looking for inspiration?
Career progression tips
Join the UK's largest union and professional body for 汤头条污料
Whether you're a nurse, midwife, HCA, AP or student, you can get a huge range of benefits when you join the RCN.
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