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
Employer heading

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
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
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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