Job summary
Join our dedicated Paediatric team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals as a Registered Children's Nurse and build your career in a supportive, forward-thinking environment where you can make a real difference to children, young people and their families.

We are recruiting enthusiastic and motivated Registered Children's Nurses, whether newly qualified or experienced, to join Ward 25 (Paediatrics) on a permanent basis.

Ward 25 is a busy and rewarding 30-bed children's unit providing a mix of medical and surgical care. The ward includes two High Dependency beds and an integrated Children's Assessment Unit, with opportunities to rotate within these areas to broaden your experience. We also have a well-established day-case surgery pathway, offering exposure to a wide range of paediatric specialties.

We are looking for compassionate, motivated first-level Registered Children's Nurses who are committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based care. You'll be keen to develop your clinical skills, work flexibly across a 24-hour service, and thrive as part of a friendly, supportive and passionate multidisciplinary team that puts children and families at the heart of everything it does.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career in a modern NHS Trust that is committed to supporting professional growth, innovation and outstanding patient care.

Please note: This vacancy is for Ward 25 (Paediatrics) only.

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

About us
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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Details
Date posted: 04 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 214-W&C-8380847
Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements

• Essential: Well developed knowledge of paediatric nursing issues

Qualifications-Academic/ Craft/ Professional

• Essential: RN child, RSCN
• Desirable: Teaching qualification (ENB 998, D32/33)
• Desirable: EPALS

Further Training

• Essential: Safeguarding children
• Desirable: Clinical supervision

Experience

• Essential: Previous experience of children's services
• Desirable: Optimism and sense of humour
• Desirable: Experience of audit and research

Contractual Requirements

• Essential: To work within a 24 hour rota, night duty and weekends

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Ward Leader Hannah Kingston, hannah.kingston8@nhs.net, 01623622515

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