Senior Staff Nurse - Paediatric High Dependency Unit

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

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Sutton-in-Ashfield is seeking a Senior Staff Nurse to join their new Paediatric Critical Care Level 2 Unit at King’s Mill Hospital. This role involves collaborating with a team to ensure high-quality care and developing clinical excellence within the unit. Ideal candidates are dedicated and passionate about nursing. Professional development support will be provided.

Qualifications

• Dedicated team player passionate about delivering high-quality care.
• Ability to work collaboratively across the network.

Responsibilities

• Play a pivotal role in embedding clinical excellence in the new unit.
• Work with the Lead Nurse to ensure high-quality, evidence-based care delivery.

Job description

Position Overview

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity to join our newly established Paediatric Critical Care Level 2 Unit at King’s Mill Hospital. We are looking to recruit a dedicated team of Band 6 Senior Staff Nurses who are passionate about delivering high-quality care and eager to be part of a pioneering venture for the Trust.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in embedding clinical excellence within our new unit. You will work collaboratively across the network and with the Lead Nurse to ensure that care delivery is consistently high-quality and evidence-based.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a new and innovative unit, shaping its development from the ground up. You’ll be supported by a forward-thinking team and have access to professional development opportunities within a Trust that values its staff.

Contact

If you feel you have the qualities and skills we are seeking, please do not hesitate to contact Carol Hind, Lead Nurse PHDU [phone] Ext. 6175 or email [e-mail].

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

About the 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.

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.

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Closing Date

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025.