Staff Nurse - Childrens

Job overview

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 to you would need to be able to commence in 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;

Childrens emergency department

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's 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

Childrens Outpatients Department

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 8-8pm but no nights. Some weekend working maybe required.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with 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 family’s it is also recognition that we have fantastic teams, leadership at all levels and a huge array of development opportunity’s.

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.

You will 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.

Detailed job description and main 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 children’s 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 Childrens Hospital recruitment day where they will be able to find out more about all of the fantastic opportunity’s at NCH.