One Year Job Guarantee Scheme

Eligibility

All newly qualified nurses and midwives who have completed their nursing or midwifery pre-registration programme and who are registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) are eligible to join the national OYJG scheme.

The OYJG scheme has been established to support those who have been unable to gain employment as a registered nurse/midwife through their own efforts, therefore we require applicants to be able to provide evidence of three (3) unsuccessful applications for a position appropriate to a newly qualified nurse or midwife. This may include correspondence with prospective employers or other records of communication regarding employment opportunities.

Whilst perhaps unable to gain substantive employment, we recognise that many newly registered applicants may, in the interim, have been able to access some limited employment in temporary, part-time or 'Bank' employment. As a consequence, some applicants may not be entitled to a full internship offer by virtue of the experience they have already gained, but we will seek to provide a proportionate offer based on an average of the number of hours they have worked. Such applicants will normally be offered a proportionate internship offer of 3 months, 6 months, 9 months or 12 months.

At present the scheme opens for application twice a year (Spring and Autumn). At that point, potential interns are all eligible to apply to the scheme if they are registered with the NMC and meet the other criteria identified. If they are not registered with the NMC when the scheme opens they will not be able to apply (as they are not eligible for employment as a Registered Nurse/Midwife). However, if they miss this 'opening' due to programme timing, extra module or practice requirements, then they may apply when the scheme next re-opens if they still meet the application criteria.