Staff Nurse – Childrens

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Staff Nurse – Children

The closing date is 17 May 2026

Nottingham Children’s Hospital are pleased to announce we are recruiting!

We invite final year Children’s Nursing students and Registered Children’s Nurses with experience to apply.

To be eligible you must be able to commence in the position by Autumn 2026. Pre‑pin Nurses must be qualified by summer 2026.

We have opportunities in rotational posts, and for specific wards/departments including but not limited to:

• Children’s Assessment Unit – A fast‑paced medical area, where you will gain a wealth of knowledge and skills in patient assessment.
• Ward E17 – Children’s Renal
• Ward D34 and D35 – Across our surgical pathway you will be able to enhance skills in caring for patients covering a multitude of specialist surgery, including cleft lip and palate, spinal, ENT, orthopaedic and gastrointestinal.
• Paediatric Critical Care Units – where you will have the opportunity to enrol on the structured foundation programme.
• E40 – Children’s Neurology and Spinal
• Ward D33 – General Medical

We also have day case areas such as Oncology Daycare. If you are looking for an area to enhance your skills with a more regular working pattern, this unit has a great balance of long days 8–8 pm but no nights. Some weekend working may be required.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

This is a really exciting time to join NCH as we became the first Children’s Hospital in Europe to achieve ANCC pathway to excellence accreditation in 2020 and received our re‑accreditation in late 2025. This makes NCH a really special place to work, not only does this show that we provide excellent care to patients and families it is also recognition that we have fantastic teams, leadership at all levels and a huge array of development opportunities.

As a registered nurse at Nottingham Children’s Hospital, you will be expected to maintain a high standard of clinical work when carrying out nursing procedures, motivate colleagues, champion children’s and families safety and dignity, and drive continuous improvement. Nottingham Children’s Hospital will support you in your role and provide the relevant education, training and support for you to deliver high quality care.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached detailed job description and person specification attachments for further information relating to this vacancy.

We have a very well established rotation and preceptorship programme supported by dedicated preceptorship development nurses. Our rotation posts offer opportunity to experience the whole of the childrens hospital including neonates, children’s emergency department, PCCU and all of our specialist wards and departments. It is important to us that our rotation is flexible to meet individual needs with some staff choosing to complete three six‑month rotations, two nine‑month rotations or an even more bespoke option.

As well as our rotation posts we also have the option for you to choose a specific ward or department to work in with the option of using our transfer window system to move at a later date, and for those newly qualified nurses who are passionate about having a career in paediatric intensive care nursing, we have our critical care foundation programme.

Applicants that are successfully shortlisted will be invited to a Children’s Hospital recruitment day where they will be able to find out more about all of the fantastic opportunities at NCH.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current level one NMC registration/Pre‑pin due to qualify.
• Possession of mentor course or willingness to complete.

Experience

• Experience of delivering nursing care to a group of patients.
• Supervision of non‑registered staff and students.
• Demonstrate evidence of a link role or involvement of project work.
• Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrates basic IT skills.
• Awareness of own limitations and able to communicate these.
• Demonstration of team working.

Analytical and Judgement

• Ability to assess plan, deliver and prioritise care.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the staff nurse role.
• Demonstrate knowledge of current NHS issues.

Physical skills

• Able to undertake manual handling and use medical equipment.
• Evidence of moving and handling training.

Other

• Flexible and adaptable.
• Enthusiastic and well motivated.
• Understanding of the role of 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.

Salary

£32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum pro rata.

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