Find nursing shifts across Buckinghamshire
Pick up shifts in hospitals, care homes and community teams from Aylesbury to the Chilterns. Book everything through the Novello app, see your confirmed pay before you accept, and get paid without chasing timesheets.
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Nursing in Buckinghamshire
Why nurses choose Novello in Buckinghamshire
The bits that actually make a shift worth taking.
Work close to home
From Stoke Mandeville in Aylesbury to Wycombe and Amersham hospitals, plus care homes across the Chilterns and community rounds around Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross, you choose shifts that fit your patch and your week.
Know your pay before you say yes
Every shift shows its confirmed rate up front in the app, so there are no surprises. Accept the ones that work for you and get paid on time, without ringing round for timesheets.
Compliance sorted once
We keep your NMC registration, DBS, mandatory training and references in one place and flag renewals before they lapse, so you stay ready for a ward at Stoke Mandeville or a night in a Marlow nursing home.
The county we cover
Buckinghamshire’s healthcare landscape
A quick picture of who runs care across the county, from the acute wards at Stoke Mandeville and the Whiteleaf Centre in Aylesbury to the secure estate at Grendon Underwood.
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is the county’s main acute provider, running Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury alongside Wycombe Hospital and Amersham Hospital. Stoke Mandeville is home to the internationally recognised National Spinal Injuries Centre, the birthplace of the Paralympic movement, and it doubles as a regional centre for burns, plastic surgery and dermatology, with an emergency department, critical care, maternity and the county’s main elective surgery lists. There is no major trauma centre inside the county, so the most seriously injured patients are taken on to the John Radcliffe in Oxford or into London. Milton Keynes sits within ceremonial Buckinghamshire but is a separate unitary area with its own acute provider, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Mental health and community services come from Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, whose Whiteleaf Centre on Bierton Road in Aylesbury holds inpatient wards for adults of working age and older people, backed by community teams and a Primary Care Mental Health Hub across the county. Secure and forensic work sits close by too: HMP Grendon, a Category B therapeutic community, and the open HMP Spring Hill share a site at Grendon Underwood, while HMP Woodhill sits over in the Milton Keynes unitary. On the independent side, The Chiltern Hospital at Great Missenden and The Shelburne Hospital in the grounds of Wycombe Hospital, both part of Circle Health Group, run planned surgery and diagnostics. District nursing, health visiting and palliative care round out a busy community picture from bases in Buckingham, Marlow and Chalfont & Gerrards Cross.
Where we work
Where we cover in Buckinghamshire
From the Vale of Aylesbury down through the Chilterns to the Thames-side towns.
Hospitals and theatres
Ward, theatre and department shifts around Stoke Mandeville, Wycombe and Amersham hospitals, plus surgical lists at the independent Chiltern and Shelburne hospitals.
Care homes and community
Nursing and residential homes across the Chilterns and the Aylesbury Vale, and community rounds around Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross, Chesham and Marlow.
Mental health and secure
Inpatient and community mental health at the Whiteleaf Centre in Aylesbury, and healthcare roles in the secure estate at Grendon Underwood and Woodhill.
We book shifts in and around Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Amersham, Chesham, Marlow, Beaconsfield, Buckingham, Gerrards Cross, Princes Risborough and Wendover.
Working across the border? We also cover the South East, Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire.
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Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area
We cover the whole county, from the Vale of Aylesbury through the Chilterns down to the Thames.
Specialisms in Buckinghamshire
Specialisms we staff in Buckinghamshire
Wherever you work best, there is a shift on the app to match.
- Nursing & care homes
- Mental health
- Prison nursing
- Critical care
- Theatres
Nursing & care homes
Buckinghamshire is a slightly older county than the national picture, with around one in five residents aged 65 or over at the 2021 census and that share set to climb, which keeps nursing and residential homes across the Chilterns and Aylesbury Vale busy. We book RGN and RMN shifts for homes registered with the CQC, from long days to sleep-ins.
Mental health
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust runs the county’s mental health services, centred on the Whiteleaf Centre in Aylesbury with its adult and older-people inpatient wards, plus community teams and crisis support. We staff RMN shifts across inpatient wards, community teams and older-people’s mental health.
Prison nursing
The county has a real secure estate. HMP Grendon, a Category B therapeutic community, and the open HMP Spring Hill share a site at Grendon Underwood, and HMP Woodhill sits nearby in the Milton Keynes unitary. Prison healthcare here is commissioned through NHS partners, and we place nurses into primary care, mental health and substance-misuse roles behind the gate when they come up.
Critical care
Stoke Mandeville runs the county’s critical care unit alongside its emergency department, and as home to the National Spinal Injuries Centre it takes complex spinal and rehabilitation patients from across the country. With no major trauma centre in-county, the sickest trauma patients route to the John Radcliffe in Oxford, so we place ITU and HDU-experienced nurses where that acuity lands.
Theatres
Elective surgery runs at Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe hospitals, and on the independent side at The Chiltern Hospital in Great Missenden and The Shelburne Hospital in High Wycombe, both Circle Health Group sites with their own theatre suites. We cover scrub, anaesthetic and recovery shifts across NHS and private lists.
Care & support work in Buckinghamshire
Care and support work in Buckinghamshire
Most care in Buckinghamshire is delivered by care assistants and support workers rather than registered nurses. Buckinghamshire Council is the unitary authority responsible for adult social care across the county’s roughly 550,000 residents, and the work spans elderly care homes in the Chilterns, supported living around Aylesbury and specialist neuro-rehabilitation. Whatever your background, there is regular work near you.
- Care assistant
- Support worker
- Dementia care
- Brain injury
Care assistant
Buckinghamshire is an older county than the national average, with around one in five residents aged 65 or over, but the picture is very uneven: in the Chiltern villages of the Missendens more than a quarter of residents are aged 65 or over, against roughly one in eight in central Aylesbury. That concentration of older people keeps care homes across the Chilterns and the Aylesbury Vale busy, and care assistants are the backbone of these homes, supporting residents with everyday living, personal care and companionship.
Support worker
Buckinghamshire Council has been investing in its services for adults with a learning disability and complex needs, setting up a dedicated learning-disabilities team and expanding day care and overnight respite provision. Alongside the council, providers such as SeeAbility run purpose-built supported living in Aylesbury for adults with sight loss, learning disabilities and autism. That means steady demand for support workers who help the people they support live as independently as possible — in their own homes and out in the community, rather than in a care-home setting.
Dementia care
As an older-than-average county, Buckinghamshire has a growing number of residents living with dementia, and the Alzheimer’s Society runs the county’s Memory Support Service on behalf of Buckinghamshire Council and the local NHS care group. Dementia care is some of the most valued work in the sector, supporting residents to live well day to day in care homes across the Chilterns and the Aylesbury Vale.
Brain injury
Buckinghamshire has a genuine specialist neuro presence around Aylesbury — Brainkind’s Kent House, a residential home for people with acquired brain injuries, alongside the NHS Buckinghamshire Neurological Rehabilitation Unit and the Community Head Injury Service based in the town. 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 and other clinical support.
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For Buckinghamshire employers
Hiring nurses in Buckinghamshire?
For care homes, hospitals and community teams across the county.
Whether you run a nursing home in the Aylesbury Vale, a ward in the Chilterns or a community service around Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross, we can cover your gaps with compliance-checked nurses. Tell us what you need and we will match nurses already working in and around towns like High Wycombe, Amersham and Marlow.
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Buckinghamshire nursing questions, answered
Which hospitals will I work in across Buckinghamshire?
Most acute shifts sit within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury along with Wycombe and Amersham hospitals. We also book work at the independent Chiltern Hospital in Great Missenden and Shelburne Hospital in High Wycombe. We name these as the local landscape only; Novello is an independent agency and holds no endorsement from any NHS trust.
Do you have mental health nursing work in Buckinghamshire?
Yes. Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services across the county, centred on the Whiteleaf Centre in Aylesbury, and we book RMN shifts across inpatient wards and community teams as they come up.
Are there prison nursing shifts in the area?
There is a secure estate at Grendon Underwood, where HMP Grendon and HMP Spring Hill share a site, plus HMP Woodhill in the neighbouring Milton Keynes unitary. We place nurses into primary care, mental health and substance-misuse roles across prison healthcare when they are available.
How does pay work with Novello?
Every shift shows its confirmed rate in the Novello app before you accept, so you always know what you will earn. Book the shifts that suit you and get paid on time, without chasing timesheets.
Which towns do you cover in Buckinghamshire?
We book shifts across the county, from Aylesbury and Buckingham in the north through Princes Risborough and Wendover to the Chilterns and Thames-side towns like High Wycombe, Amersham, Chesham, Marlow, Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross.
Ready to pick up shifts in Buckinghamshire?
Download the Novello app, set your patch from Aylesbury to the Thames-side towns, and start booking shifts with your pay confirmed before you accept.
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