Registered Nurse - Paediatrics (Ward 25) | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Jul 2026
Closing date:	5 Aug 2026

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Summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals have exciting Registered Nurse 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 Children's 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 (Paediatrics) Ward only.

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

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

This advert closes on Sunday 19 Jul 2026

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