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Job summary

Main area
Critical Care Nursing
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent: Working a full rota including bank holidays
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24 hour rota)
Job ref
214-SRG-7370874
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton-In-Ashfield
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/08/2025 23:59

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Registered Nurse - Critical Care

NHS AfC: Band 5

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job overview

The Critical Care Unit at Sherwood Forest Hospitals is seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated Registered Nurses to join our dynamic team. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a 15-bedded unit that plays a vital role within both our Trust and the East Midlands Critical Care Network.

Our Critical Care Unit is a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment, providing an opportunity for nurses to enhance their skills and face new challenges daily. We are looking for nurses who thrive in a dynamic setting and can adapt quickly to the ever-changing demands of critical care

 If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and work in a unit where every day presents new opportunities to grow and make a difference, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

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

Working for our organisation

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 sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship 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 the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Contractual Requirements

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

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Post Registration
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in an acute setting

Further Training

Desirable criteria
  • Change management and leadership skills
  • ILS
  • Mentorship qualification
  • Post Grad Certificate in Critical Care

Qualifications-Academic/ Craft/ Professional

Essential criteria
  • First Level Registered Nurse
Desirable criteria
  • Critical care skills

Knowledge Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Well developed communication skills and time management
  • Effective organisational abilities
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in an acute care setting

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPathway to excellenceCare quality commission - GoodCarer Friendly Employer 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare4NottsTime to changeFair Train Silver StandardStep into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Phaedra Kay
Job title
Critical Care Department Leader
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623 622515
Additional information

Please contact the unit on 01623 622515 ext 4187 for an informal visit

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