Registered Nurse - Ward 12 | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking Registered Nurses to join their team. The role involves delivering outstanding care in a busy trauma unit, working closely with healthcare support workers, and supporting patients and their families. The ideal candidates will thrive in a fast-paced environment and contribute to the hospital's commitment to high-quality care and staff support. This position offers excellent training and education opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver outstanding care to patients and support their relatives.
• Work closely with healthcare support workers.
• Care for patients in a fast-paced trauma unit.

Job description

Overview

The Division of Surgery, Anaesthetics & Critical Care is an integral part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals. We comprise specialist wards for varying surgical disciplines including colorectal, general surgery, trauma orthopaedics, elective orthopaedics, day case, adult critical care and theatres. We are a friendly team who work closely with each other offering excellent training and education opportunities.

About the role

We are seeking Registered Nurses who wish to be part of a team that delivers outstanding care to the community we serve. You will work closely with health care support workers to deliver direct care to our patients and support their relatives during their stay within Sherwood Forest Hospitals. Wards 12 will be part of the trauma unit, admitting patients with acute injuries regularly requiring surgical input. The unit will be a fast paced, busy environment caring for patient’s pre and post operatively.

How to understand the role

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Our Trust

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

Our values

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

Quality and recognition

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Visa sponsorship

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Application

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025