Heartbeat: Stroke of good fortune at recruiting event

April 27, 2020

Valentine’s Day was a busy one for everyone at our organisation – but not all the action took place at the site of the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital.

At the same time as our relaunch event at Midland Met, back over at Sandwell Hospital, members of our existing nursing team were welcoming people who may one day be a part of the team that works at our ‘super-hospital.’

Members of the stroke services team were on hand to speak to prospective candidates as part of the Trust’s latest recruitment day. The event aimed to fill a number of roles across a team which has an expansive development plan for 2020; as it reorganises and further develops the services it offers. One such project is the new SWAT team – thankfully not an armed response unit, but rather the newly formed stroke wellbeing activity team operating out of Sandwell. Over the course of the day, a number of the team spoke to nurses, students and HCAs that were interested in either applying for roles, or finding out more about the service. They also provided lots of information about flexible working practices, what the team does and its plans for the future.

“I’m delighted to say we made a number of offers over the course of the day and are adding four band 5, nurses, to our amazing stroke services team”, Lead Stroke and Neurology Matron, Jo Thomas told Heartbeat. “Going forward we know there’s a lot of work to do. We have several projects that we look forward to working on over the year. It’s our goal to make the service and its staff the very best – this is just the first step towards achieving that.”