Registered Nurse (Ward 25) | 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 NHS healthcare provider in Sutton-in-Ashfield is seeking enthusiastic Registered Children's Nurses to join their paediatric team. This role involves working in a supportive environment dedicated to delivering high-quality, evidence-based care. The ideal candidate should be flexible and eager to learn, with opportunities for ongoing training and development. The job offers both medical and surgical responsibilities within a well-established children's ward.

Benefits

Ongoing training and development support

Flexible working

Family friendly environment

State-of-the-art hospital facilities

On-site parking

Qualifications

• Ability to work flexibly over a 24-hour period.
• Eager to develop skills and expertise.
• Team player dedicated to high quality care.

Responsibilities

• Join a friendly and supportive nursing team.
• Provide high quality, evidence-based care.
• Rotate within the general children’s ward.

Skills

Enthusiastic

Motivated

Flexibility

Education

First level Registered Children’s Nurse

Job description

Sherwood Forest Hospitals have exciting Band 5 opportunities for enthusiastic and highly motivated Registered Children's Nurses to join our paediatric team.

We have permanent vacancies within our general children’s ward. This is a 30 bedded unit with both medical and surgical beds, 2 high dependency beds and a Childrens Assessment Unit within the ward and there are options to rotate within this. We also have a well‑established day‑case surgery pathway.

What we have to offer:

• Transfer of employment for anyone currently on a Skilled Worker Visa
• Rotations in most areas
• Great Preceptorship and Clinical Supervision programmes
• Opportunities to learn specialist skills
• On‑going training and development support
• First class, spacious and state of the art hospital
• Plenty of on‑site parking
• Family friendly
• Flexible working

We are looking for first level Registered Children’s Nurses, newly qualified or experienced who are able to work flexibly over a 24‑hour period, are eager to develop their skills and expertise and who keen to join a friendly, enthusiastic and supportive nursing team, who are dedicated to providing high quality, evidence based care.

This vacancy is for Ward 25 (Paediatric) Ward only.

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer to the job description attached.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer to the job description attached.

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025