Working for us
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust is an excellent place to work and we take your personal and professional development seriously. The goal of the Trust is to be an employer of choice where staff work together to ensure patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people want to work here. Staff are our most important asset so meeting their development needs will continue to be a key priority for the Trust.
We have a wide variety of roles for our staff to undertake so if you are thinking of new challenges or would just like a change please explore our job vacancies.
We offer a range of benefits for staff including:
- Childcare provision at subsidised nurseries which provide local childcare facilities at competitive prices
- Flexible working
- Flexible retirement
- Support for carers
- Free and confidential counselling and advice services
- Discounts with local and national stores, restaurants, travel and leisure facilities
- On-site shops
- We also hold a number of social events and award schemes for staff, including quiz nights, discos, awards to celebrate staff excellence and long service awards.
Childcare provision
Trust employees have access to 2 Ofsted registered nurseries, which are open 52 weeks a year. Barnet Hospital Nursery is registered for 36 places and Chase Farm Hospital Nursery for 48. They cater for children from 6 months to 5 years and provide a secure, caring and stimulating environment for children in their care.
Flexible working
There are many flexible working options available, including:
- Part-time, Flexi-time
- Job sharing
- Home-working
- Term-time or School hours working
- Voluntarily reduced hours
- Phased return to work/part-time working on medical grounds
- Unpaid leave
- Annualised or compressed hours
- Career breaks
You may wish to alter your working hours to accommodate childcare/elderly/carer responsibilities, due to health reasons, because you are completing further studying or training, or for another reason.
Most departments operate informal flexible working options. We also encourage flexible medical trainees to join and in the past year we have had trainees from A&E, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology and GPVTS.
Flexible retirement
There are many options available for staff nearing retirement, which means that you don't need to stop working straight away, including:
- Winding down - working part-time in your current role
- Stepping down - moving into a less-demanding job on a lower pay and less hours, whilst still utilising your knowledge and skills
- Retiring then coming back - working on a flexible, part-time basis or filling in for staff during peak times.
Support for carers
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance the demands of their personal and domestic lives with those of their working lives, particularly during times of urgent domestic need. To provide as much support as possible to staff who are carers a range of special leave provisions have been developed including:
- Carers Leave
- Bereavement Leave
- Paternity Leave
- Maternity Leave
- Adoption Leave
- Parental Leave
- Job Share
