Find nursing shifts across Derbyshire
Novello Healthcare places registered nurses and healthcare assistants on shifts right across Derbyshire, from the Royal Derby Hospital and Chesterfield Royal to care homes and mental health units in between. Choose your own shifts in our app, with the pay confirmed before you accept. Register today and take the work that fits your week.
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Nursing in Derbyshire
Why nurses in Derbyshire work with Novello
Straightforward booking, honest pay and proper compliance support, whether you are in Derby, Chesterfield or a Peak District market town.
Shifts that fit your patch
Pick up work close to home or travel for the right rate. We cover the whole county, from the Royal Derby Hospital and the Nuffield in the south to Chesterfield Royal in the north, plus care and community roles in Ilkeston, Long Eaton, Belper, Matlock and Buxton. You choose what you take in the app.
Pay confirmed up front
You see the rate before you accept a shift, not after. No guessing, no chasing. Every booking in the app shows the pay clearly, and we sort timesheets and payment without the usual back and forth.
Compliance handled properly
We keep your NMC registration checks, DBS, mandatory training and references in order so you stay ready to work. Our team chases the paperwork so you can focus on the ward, the home or the unit.
The county we cover
The Derbyshire healthcare landscape
Derbyshire is served by two acute NHS trusts, a dedicated mental health trust, a community services trust, a busy independent hospital and a large care sector shaped by an older than average population.
Acute care in Derbyshire runs on two NHS foundation trusts. In the south, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust runs the Royal Derby Hospital on Uttoxeter Road, a major teaching hospital and the region’s designated major trauma centre, alongside the Florence Nightingale Community Hospital in Derby, which was renamed from the London Road Community Hospital in 2021. Community hospitals elsewhere in the county, including Ripley, Ilkeston and the Cavendish at Buxton, are run separately by Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust. To the north, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust runs Chesterfield Royal Hospital at Calow, whose 24 hour emergency department serves Chesterfield, Bolsover, Dronfield and the wider north of the county. Between them these two acute trusts cover well over a million residents spread across the city of Derby, the coalfield towns and the Peak District.
Mental health and community services are provided by Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Its acute inpatient wards sit in the Radbourne Unit on the Royal Derby Hospital site and the Hartington Unit in Chesterfield, and its Making Room for Dignity programme has opened newer facilities including the Carsington Unit and Kingfisher House, the county’s first male psychiatric intensive care unit, at Kingsway Hospital in Derby, plus Bluebell Ward for older adults at Walton Hospital in Chesterfield. The county also holds two prisons, HMP Sudbury and HMP Foston Hall, and on the independent side Nuffield Health Derby Hospital handles planned surgery and diagnostics to the south west of the city. Community and district nursing reach out into rural areas around Ashbourne, Bakewell and the High Peak.
Where we work
What we cover across Derbyshire
Hospital, care and community, and mental health settings across the whole county, from the city of Derby up to the north Derbyshire coalfield and the Peak.
Hospitals and theatres
Ward, department and theatre shifts across the acute sites, including the Royal Derby Hospital and its trauma and specialist services, Chesterfield Royal at Calow, and planned surgical lists at Nuffield Health Derby Hospital. We place staff into medicine, surgery, emergency and recovery.
Care and community
Nursing and residential home shifts and community roles across Derby, Chesterfield, Ilkeston, Swadlincote, Belper, Alfreton and the market towns of the Peak. Demand here is steady given the county’s older than average population.
Mental health and secure
Placements in acute mental health and psychiatric intensive care with settings such as the Radbourne Unit, the Hartington Unit and the newer Kingsway Hospital wards, plus healthcare roles linked to the prison estate at HMP Sudbury and HMP Foston Hall.
We cover Derby, Chesterfield, Ilkeston, Long Eaton, Swadlincote, Belper, Ripley, Alfreton, Buxton, Glossop, Matlock, Dronfield and the surrounding towns and villages.
Working across the border? We also cover the East Midlands, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire.
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Where we cover in Derbyshire
From Derby and Chesterfield out to the Peak District market towns, here is where our shifts sit and the hospitals nearby.
Specialisms in Derbyshire
Specialisms we cover in Derbyshire
Whatever your background, there is work for it across Derbyshire’s settings, from theatres at the Royal Derby Hospital and Chesterfield Royal to the mental health wards at Kingsway Hospital and healthcare teams behind the gate at HMP Sudbury and HMP Foston Hall.
- Nursing & care homes
- Mental health
- Prison nursing
- Critical care
- Theatres
Nursing & care homes
Derbyshire skews older than England as a whole. At the 2021 census around 22 per cent of the county’s residents were aged 65 or over, against roughly 18 per cent nationally, and Derbyshire County Council’s own ageing population planning expects the number of people aged 90 and above to more than double by 2043. That underpins consistent nursing and residential home demand across Belper, Matlock, Ashbourne, Bakewell and the Derby and Chesterfield suburbs, in homes registered and inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Mental health
Mental health inpatient care in the county is provided by Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Acute wards run at the Radbourne Unit on the Royal Derby Hospital site and the Hartington Unit in Chesterfield, while the trust’s Making Room for Dignity investment has brought newer facilities online including the Carsington Unit and Kingfisher House, described as the county’s first male psychiatric intensive care unit, at Kingsway Hospital in Derby, and Bluebell Ward for older adults at Walton Hospital in Chesterfield. We place mental health nurses and support workers across these kinds of settings.
Prison nursing
Derbyshire has two prisons. HMP Sudbury, near Ashbourne, is an open, lower security men’s prison, and HMP Foston Hall, near Foston, is a closed women’s prison and young offender institution. Both rely on prison healthcare teams delivering primary and mental health care behind the gate, and we support nurses and healthcare assistants who want to move into this kind of secure environment work.
Critical care
The Royal Derby Hospital is the region’s designated major trauma centre and a major teaching hospital, which means intensive care, resuscitation and high dependency work at scale, while Chesterfield Royal Hospital runs its own busy emergency department and critical care for the north of the county. We place experienced ITU, HDU and emergency nurses into these environments where the pace and acuity are highest.
Theatres
Surgical work spans NHS and independent theatres. The Royal Derby Hospital and Chesterfield Royal both run full operating lists across scrub, anaesthetics and recovery, and Nuffield Health Derby Hospital, along with private practice run in partnership with the local NHS trust, adds planned surgery and endoscopy. Scrub, ODP-adjacent recovery and theatre nurses will find regular work here.
Care & support work in Derbyshire
Care and support work in Derbyshire
Most care in Derbyshire is delivered by care assistants and support workers rather than registered nurses. Derbyshire County Council is the upper-tier adult social care authority for a county that skews noticeably older than England as a whole, with around 22 per cent of residents aged 65 or over, and the work spans elderly care homes, supported living and specialist neuro-rehabilitation. Whatever your background, there is regular work near you.
- Care assistant
- Support worker
- Dementia care
- Brain injury
Care assistant
Demand is heaviest in the rural north and west of the county: in the Derbyshire Dales the median age has climbed to 51, among the oldest of any district in the East Midlands, and the number of residents aged 65 or over grew by more than a quarter in the decade to 2021. Care assistants are the backbone of the county’s older people’s homes, supporting residents with everyday living, personal care and companionship.
Support worker
Derbyshire County Council still directly runs some of its own learning-disability services rather than commissioning every one out, including the Morewood Centre in Alfreton, which provides planned short breaks for adults with a learning disability or autism. Alongside the independent supported-living providers working across the county, 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
Around 10,000 people in Derbyshire had a dementia diagnosis in 2024, with a further 4,677 estimated to be living with it undiagnosed, and Joined Up Care Derbyshire expects the total to rise toward 22,000 by 2030 as the population ages. Dementia care is some of the most valued work in the sector, supporting residents to live well day to day.
Brain injury
Derbyshire has a genuine specialist neuro cluster — the Kings Lodge Neurological Rehabilitation Unit at the Florence Nightingale Community Hospital in Derby, Voyage Care’s Markham House near Bolsover, which supports up to 17 adults with brain injuries and complex neurological needs, and its newer Linnet Mews rehabilitation service at Clowne, alongside the Headway North Derbyshire 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 and other clinical support.
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For Derbyshire employers
Hiring nurses or HCAs in Derbyshire?
If you run a ward, a care home or a unit anywhere from Derby and the Nuffield in the south to the north Derbyshire coalfield around Chesterfield, we can fill your gaps quickly with checked, ready to work staff.
We supply registered nurses and healthcare assistants to hospitals, nursing and residential homes, mental health units and community services right across Derbyshire, from Derby and Chesterfield to Buxton, Glossop, Swadlincote and the smaller Peak District towns. Every candidate is compliance checked before they start, so you get someone who can walk onto the floor and get on with it. Tell us what you need and we will match it.
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Derbyshire nursing agency questions, answered
Which hospitals in Derbyshire does Novello cover?
We cover the county's main acute sites, including the Royal Derby Hospital run by University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and Chesterfield Royal Hospital at Calow, along with community and independent settings such as Nuffield Health Derby Hospital. Naming these hospitals reflects the local landscape we recruit into. It does not imply Novello holds a contract with, or is endorsed by, any named trust or hospital.
Do you place mental health nurses in Derbyshire?
Yes. Derbyshire's mental health inpatient care is provided by Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, with wards including the Radbourne Unit in Derby, the Hartington Unit in Chesterfield and the newer units at Kingsway Hospital. We place mental health nurses and support workers into these kinds of acute and psychiatric intensive care settings.
Is there prison or secure healthcare work in Derbyshire?
There is. The county has two prisons, HMP Sudbury near Ashbourne and HMP Foston Hall near Foston, both with healthcare teams delivering primary and mental health care. If you are interested in secure environment work, register and let us know and we will keep you in mind for suitable roles.
How does pay work when I book a shift?
You see the rate before you accept, not after. Every shift in our app shows the pay clearly, so you can decide with the full picture. We handle timesheets and payment so you are not left chasing what you are owed.
Which towns in Derbyshire do you recruit across?
The whole county. That includes Derby, Chesterfield, Ilkeston, Long Eaton, Swadlincote, Belper, Ripley, Alfreton, Buxton, Glossop, Matlock, Dronfield and the surrounding Peak District and coalfield towns and villages.
Ready to pick up shifts in Derbyshire?
Register with Novello Healthcare today and start choosing shifts across Derbyshire in the app, with pay confirmed before you accept. Even if there is nothing perfect right now, getting registered means you are ready the moment the right work comes up near you.
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