Find nursing shifts across Bristol
Novello Healthcare matches nurses to shifts across Bristol, from Southmead and the Bristol Royal Infirmary to care homes in the suburbs. See the confirmed pay before you accept, book straight from the app and get paid on time.
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Nursing in Bristol
Why nurses pick up Bristol shifts with Novello
Simple booking, honest pay and real people behind you.
Shifts in the settings you want
Whether you would rather be on a ward at Southmead or the Bristol Royal Infirmary, in a care home in Fishponds or Bedminster, or on a mental health unit at Callington Road, you can see and book what suits you from the app. Tell us which parts of the city you are happy to travel to and we will match the work to you.
Pay you can count on
You see the confirmed rate before you accept a shift, so there are no surprises and no haggling. Book it in the app, work it, and get paid on our regular, reliable payroll.
Compliant in as little as 24 hours
Registration takes about 60 seconds, and our team helps you get fully compliant, often within 24 hours. We keep your training, DBS and references in order so you are ready to work across Bristol’s NHS, private and care settings without last-minute hold-ups.
The area we cover
Nursing in Bristol
A compact, busy city with acute, specialist and community nursing work packed into a small area.
Bristol’s hospital scene changed on 1 July 2026, when North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust merged to form Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, now one of the largest NHS trusts in the country. Its Southmead Hospital, in the north of the city, runs the Brunel building and the adult major trauma centre for the Severn Major Trauma Network, taking the most serious injuries from right across the South West. In the city centre sit the Bristol Royal Infirmary, the Bristol Heart Institute and the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre, alongside the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, the only paediatric major trauma centre in the South West. St Michael’s Hospital covers maternity and neonatal care, and the trust also runs Weston General Hospital over in Weston-super-Mare. For a fairly small, dense city, that puts acute, specialist and tertiary work close together.
Mental health across the city is led by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, one of the largest specialist mental health, learning disability and autism providers in the South West. Its acute and psychiatric intensive care wards sit at Callington Road Hospital in Brislington, while Fromeside, the medium secure forensic unit at Blackberry Hill Hospital in Fishponds, cares for people with more complex risk. HMP Bristol, the Category B local prison in Horfield, runs an inpatient healthcare unit with round-the-clock nursing cover. On the independent side, Spire Bristol Hospital and Nuffield Health’s Bristol Hospital, The Chesterfield, in Clifton, keep elective theatres and day-case lists busy. Add the district nursing teams and dozens of CQC-registered care and nursing homes across the city, and there is nursing work in nearly every setting.
Where we work
Where we cover in Bristol
From the city-centre hospitals to the suburbs and out towards Weston, we cover nursing work across the whole of Bristol.
Hospitals and theatres
Southmead Hospital, the Bristol Royal Infirmary, the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and St Michael’s cover acute, trauma, paediatric and maternity work, while Spire Bristol and Nuffield Health’s Chesterfield in Clifton run busy elective theatre and day-case lists.
Care homes and community
Across Clifton, Bedminster, Horfield and Fishponds you will find CQC-registered nursing and residential homes, plus district and community nursing teams supporting people in their own homes.
Mental health and secure
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership runs acute and intensive-care wards at Callington Road and the medium secure Fromeside unit at Blackberry Hill, with prison healthcare at HMP Bristol in Horfield.
We cover Clifton, Bedminster, Fishponds, Southville, Horfield, Bishopston, Redland, Brislington, Easton and the wider city.
Working just outside the city? We also cover the South West, Somerset and Gloucestershire.
On the map
Nursing shifts across Bristol on the map
Use the map to see how far each Bristol location is from you, from the city-centre hospitals to the suburbs and out towards Weston.
Specialisms in Bristol
Specialisms we cover in Bristol
From the acute wards of Bristol NHS Foundation Trust to secure forensic care at Fromeside, whatever your speciality there is likely to be Bristol work for you.
- Nursing & care homes
- Mental health
- Prison nursing
- Critical care
- Theatres
Nursing & care homes
Bristol is a young city overall, but the 2021 census still counted 60,760 residents aged 65 and over, nearly 28,000 of them 75 or older, and that keeps demand for nursing-home care steady. The city has dozens of CQC-registered care and nursing homes, and Bristol City Council’s adult social care was rated ‘Good’ by the CQC in 2025. We place nurses into residential, nursing and dementia care across areas like Westbury-on-Trym, Knowle and Henbury.
Mental health
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust leads mental health here, with acute wards and psychiatric intensive care at Callington Road Hospital in Brislington and forensic care at the Fromeside medium secure unit at Blackberry Hill Hospital in Fishponds. We cover RMN and mental health nursing shifts across these and other community settings.
Prison nursing
HMP Bristol is the city’s Category B local prison, in Horfield on Cambridge Road. It runs an inpatient healthcare unit with 24-hour nursing cover and a long-established drug and alcohol treatment service, so there is genuine prison and secure-setting nursing work on the doorstep for nurses who want it.
Critical care
Southmead Hospital’s Brunel building holds the adult major trauma centre for the Severn Major Trauma Network, complete with helipad, taking the most serious injuries from across the South West. The Bristol Royal Infirmary and the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, the region’s only paediatric major trauma centre, add adult and children’s critical care, so there is real scope for ITU, HDU and critical-care nurses.
Theatres
Theatre nurses have plenty of choice here. NHS surgical work runs at Southmead and the Bristol Royal Infirmary, while the independent sector adds Spire Bristol Hospital and Nuffield Health’s Bristol Hospital, The Chesterfield, in Clifton, which runs three digital theatres. Scrub, anaesthetic and recovery shifts come up across all of them.
Care & support work in Bristol
Care and support work in Bristol
Most care in Bristol is delivered by care assistants and support workers rather than registered nurses. Bristol City Council is the unitary adult social care authority for a city of nearly half a million people, and its adult social care was rated ‘Good’ by the CQC in 2025. The work spans elderly care homes, supported living and specialist neuro-rehabilitation, so whatever your background, there is regular work near you.
- Care assistant
- Support worker
- Dementia care
- Brain injury
Care assistant
Bristol is one of the youngest of the UK’s core cities — its median age is just 33.4, against 40.3 for England, and only around one in eight residents is aged 65 or over, well below the national share. But the 2021 census still counted 60,760 older residents, and they cluster in the outer northern suburbs such as Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze, home to many of the city’s older people’s care homes. Care assistants are the backbone of those homes, supporting residents with personal care, meals and companionship.
Support worker
As the unitary authority, Bristol City Council commissions supported living rather than residential placements for many disabled adults, with independent-living networks such as KeyRing operating right across the city to help people stay in their own tenancies. That means steady demand for support workers who help the people they support build everyday skills and live as independently as possible — in their own homes and out in the community, rather than in a care-home setting.
Dementia care
Bristol runs one of England’s longest-established integrated dementia services — the Bristol Dementia Wellbeing Service, delivered in partnership by the Alzheimer’s Society and Devon Partnership NHS Trust and commissioned across the city since 2015, giving every person diagnosed a named dementia navigator. With around 100 staff supporting people from diagnosis through to end of life, dementia is a major part of local care work. It is some of the most valued work in the sector, supporting older people to live well day to day.
Brain injury
Bristol has a genuine specialist neuro cluster on the northern edge of the city, centred on the old Frenchay Hospital site: the 52-bed Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, run by Active Care Group across two units with a high-dependency ward, alongside the Bristol-based Arbor community neurorehabilitation team and the long-standing Headway Bristol charity. Rehabilitation support workers here help the people they support rebuild skills and independence after a brain injury, work closely related to the complex-care roles that involve tracheostomy, ventilation and other clinical support.
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For Bristol employers
Need nurses in Bristol?
If you run a care home, hospital or clinic in the city, we can help you fill your shifts.
We supply nurses and healthcare assistants to settings right across Bristol, from care and nursing homes in Bedminster, Fishponds and Easton to hospital wards, theatres and mental health units. Tell us what you need and we will match compliant, checked staff to your rotas, whether it is a one-off shift or ongoing cover.
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Bristol nursing agency FAQs
What kinds of nursing jobs does Novello offer in Bristol?
We cover a wide spread of work across the city, from acute hospital wards and theatres to ITU and HDU, mental health and RMN roles, care and nursing homes and prison healthcare. Whatever your speciality, there is usually Bristol work to suit you, and we add new sites regularly.
Which Bristol hospitals might I work at?
Bristol's healthcare landscape includes Bristol NHS Foundation Trust sites such as Southmead Hospital, the Bristol Royal Infirmary, the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and St Michael's, plus independent hospitals like Spire Bristol and Nuffield Health's Chesterfield in Clifton. We match you to the shifts available to us at any given time and are adding new locations all the time.
How quickly can I start working in Bristol?
Registration takes around 60 seconds, and our compliance team can often get you fully checked and ready to work in as little as 24 hours. Once you are compliant you can book Bristol shifts straight from the app.
Do you offer mental health nursing shifts in Bristol?
Yes. Mental health in Bristol is led by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, with acute and intensive-care wards at Callington Road Hospital in Brislington and the Fromeside medium secure unit at Blackberry Hill in Fishponds. We cover RMN and mental health nursing shifts across a range of settings like these.
How does pay work at Novello?
You see the confirmed rate for each shift before you accept it, so there is no guessing and no haggling. Book the shift, work it, and you are paid on our regular, reliable payroll.
Start picking up Bristol shifts today
Registering takes under a minute, and you could be compliant within 24 hours. Join Novello and start booking nursing shifts across Bristol, from the city-centre hospitals to care homes in the suburbs, with confirmed pay every time.
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