Oxford University Hospitals Jobs, Pay & Visa Sponsorship

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) describes itself as a world-renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK.

It became a foundation trust on 1 October 2015.

The trust runs four hospitals: the John Radcliffe Hospital (including the Children's Hospital, West Wing, Eye Hospital, Heart Centre and Women's Centre), the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Some services reach more than 100 other locations across the region.

In 2025-26 OUH had 16,347 staff and 1,050 general and acute beds, and recorded 167,358 type 1 A&E attendances, nearly 1.4 million attended outpatient appointments and 7,296 births.

Its partnership with the University of Oxford underpins research, including the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre at the John Radcliffe. For internationally trained professionals, the trust has an international nursing page and fellowship schemes for overseas doctors in some specialties, and it advertises posts for midwives, allied health professionals and scientists through TRAC.

Run by

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Leadership

• Professor Meghana Pandit MBBS FRCOG MBA, Chief Executive Officer
• Professor Andrew Brent, Chief Medical Officer
• Yvonne Christley, Chief Nursing Officer

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• Cardiac services

  Specialist cardiac care, including the Heart Centre at the John Radcliffe.

• Cancer

  Specialist cancer services, with early-phase trials at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility on the Churchill site.

• Musculoskeletal care

  The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre provides the trust's specialist musculoskeletal services.

• Neurological rehabilitation

  Named by the trust among its specialist services.

• Trauma and critical care

  The John Radcliffe is Oxfordshire's main A&E site, with trauma, intensive care and cardiothoracic services.

• Children's and women's services

  The Children's Hospital and Women's Centre at the John Radcliffe.

• OUH's international nursing page says: 'We welcome applications from nurses worldwide who hold a full NMC Registration.'
• For internationally educated nurses starting their first role in the NHS, the trust offers a dedicated Bridging Programme to support the transition to the NHS and OUH. It also welcomes direct applications and enquiries and says it will support you to gain UK nurse registration, asking you to contact its clinical divisions.
• For doctors, the Oxford International Neonatal and Paediatric Fellowship Scheme takes non-UK and non-EEA paediatricians with MRCPCH or a similar postgraduate qualification for up to 24 months of training at a senior level before they return home. The trust also lists anaesthetic fellowships.
• Home Office sponsor register: we checked the register of licensed sponsors (workers) on GOV.UK on 21 October 2026, in the version dated 20 October 2026. The trust is listed as 'Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust', Oxford, with an A rating for the Skilled Worker route. Being listed means it can assign certificates of sponsorship; check each advert for whether the post can be sponsored.

• Nurses and midwives: registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). If you trained outside the UK you pass the NMC test of competence (a computer-based test and the OSCE) and show English at NMC level, for example IELTS Academic 7 in listening, reading and speaking and 6.5 in writing, or OET grade B with C+ in writing.

• Doctors: registration with a licence to practise from the General Medical Council (GMC). Most international graduates qualify through PLAB 1 and PLAB 2 or an acceptable postgraduate qualification, and the GMC asks for IELTS Academic 7.5 overall with at least 7.0 in each area, or OET Medicine grade B in every skill.

• Allied health professionals such as physiotherapists and radiographers: registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) through its international route, with an HCPC-accepted English test unless you qualified in a country on its list.

• Visa: if you do not already have the right to work in the UK, you need a job offer and a certificate of sponsorship from an approved employer, then usually the Health and Care Worker visa. GOV.UK sets the eligibility, salary and fee rules, not the employer.

• Paediatric fellowship: applicants must show that their knowledge, skills and experience meet both the scheme's entry criteria and those set for GMC registration.

1. 1

   Check your registration position

   OUH welcomes nurses with full NMC registration and supports internationally educated nurses towards registration. Doctors need GMC registration or an eligible fellowship route.
2. 2

   Contact a clinical division or fellowship team

   Nurses can send direct enquiries through the clinical divisions linked from the international nursing page. Paediatricians can email the neonatal and paediatric fellowship team and use its application form.
3. 3

   Register with TRAC

   All OUH vacancies are posted online. Register with the TRAC recruitment system to get alerts and apply.
4. 4

   Interview

   The trust uses value based interviewing, so prepare examples that show its values.
5. 5

   Pre-employment checks

   Your recruitment assistant sends checks through TRAC, including right to work.
6. 6

   Visa and Bridging Programme

   With a certificate of sponsorship, apply for the Health and Care Worker visa on GOV.UK. Nurses starting their first NHS role join the Bridging Programme.

• Band 5 (newly registered nurse or midwife)

  £32,073 to £39,043

  Agenda for Change 2026/27. Intermediate point £34,592 after 2 years, top after a further 2 years.

• Band 6

  £39,959 to £48,117

  Agenda for Change 2026/27. Intermediate point £42,170 after 2 years.

• Band 7

  £49,387 to £56,515

  Agenda for Change 2026/27. Intermediate point £51,932 after 2 years.

• Resident doctor, FY1 and FY2

  £41,226 and £47,610

  2016 contract nodal points from 1 April 2026, as restructured to ten points in the July 2026 circular.

• Resident doctor, ST1 to ST8

  £55,355 to £77,348

  ST1 and ST2 £55,355; ST3 £67,325; ST4 and ST5 £67,998; ST6 £76,582; ST7 and ST8 £77,348.

• Specialty doctor (2021 contract)

  £63,696 to £102,689

  2026/27, by years of experience.

• Consultant (2003 contract)

  £113,565 to £150,569

  2026/27, by years completed as a consultant.