Nursing & Midwifery Progression

Care for your future in nursing

Nursing offers so many opportunities for professional development, personal satisfaction, education and achievement. Whether you’re just starting out or planning your next career move, the potential is wide-ranging and ever-changing.

For more information on NHS careers please go the NHS Careers website.

Nursing Careers
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  • Find your own career path

    Nurses no longer work mainly in hospitals. Your career could take you into people’s homes, community clinics, workplaces, schools, prisons, nursing homes and rehab centres. You could provide care in many different pathways, from public health to critical care, and help children, young people, adults or older people to manage their physical or mental health. And you might work beyond the NHS in social care or for a private company or charity. Wherever your career takes you, the emphasis will always be on promoting health and illness prevention.

  • Move up and around

    Once registered as a nurse, you’ve already reached level 5 as a healthcare practitioner on the NHS Career Framework. You will undergo preceptorship to develop your confidence and soon become a preceptor or mentor yourself. As you progress, you might move into management, research or education, or perhaps become a clinical specialist.

    • Level 5 – Practitioner
    • Level 6 – Senior practitioner
    • Level 7 – Advanced practitioner
    • Level 8 – Consultant practitioner
    • Level 9 – Senior leader

  • Focus on education and achievement

    Throughout your career at LTHT you’ll be supported by the right education and training, with early opportunities for postgraduate achievement.

    Your professional development needs will be discussed and agreed through your appraisal, and you will be supported to access the trust, university and national courses and programmes you need to enable you to pursue your career aspirations at LTHT.

  • Develop your skills

    Build on your skills as a practitioner, partner and leader as you progress from your first job potentially right up to the executive board. Your core competencies will always include:

    • Autonomy and accountability
    • Advocacy and negotiation
    • Assessment and referral
    • Decision-making and clinical skills
    • Managing complexity
    • Caseload management
    • Care pathway co-ordination.

    For more details, visit www.skillsforhealth.org.uk