Job summary
Are you an exceptional Registered Nurse looking to develop your career in Same Day Emergency Care? Do you thrive in a fast-paced clinical environment, enjoy working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, and take pride in delivering safe, efficient, patient-centred care? If so, you may be exactly who we're looking for.

Our SDEC Unit is seeking to recruit a motivated Band 5 Registered Nurse, to join our highly regarded team. The unit offers a modern, purpose-built environment with 24 patient chairs, designed to support rapid assessment, treatment and discharge for our patients.

As a Registered Nurse in SDEC, you will work in a dynamic and varied clinical setting where no two days are the same. You will play a key role in ensuring high standards of care are consistently delivered, using early warning scores, strong clinical judgement and excellent communication skills to identify patients at risk of deterioration and escalate appropriately when necessary.

This is a rewarding yet challenging role that requires confidence, adaptability and a commitment to delivering high-quality care within tight timeframes. You will work closely with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues to support safe same-day patient journeys and contribute to a positive, collaborative team culture.

If you are enthusiastic, compassionate and ready to rise to a new challenge, we would love to hear from you.

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.

Details
Date posted: 30 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 214-UEC-8357745
Closing date: 15 November 2026

Person Specification
Knowledge

• Essential: Well developed communication skills and time management
• Essential: Effective organisational abilities

Qualifications

• Essential: 1st level Registered Nurse
• Desirable: Critical care skills

Further Training

• Essential: Change management and leadership skills
• Essential: Supervisory skills
• Essential: 997 and 998 or FLIPS
• Essential: Cannulation and venepuncture
• Essential: ILS

Experience

• Desirable: Experience in an acute setting

Contractual

• Essential: Continued Professional Development
• Essential: Regular Attendance
• Essential: Ability to work flexibly within working hours of ward/department.
• Essential: Demonstrate professionalism and patient advocacy

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/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Charge Nurse Dan Exell, daniel.exell@nhs.net, 01623622515

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