Find nursing shifts across Rutland
Novello matches nurses, healthcare assistants and support workers with shifts in and around England’s smallest county. Book through the app, see the confirmed pay before you accept, and choose work that fits around your week.
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Nursing in Rutland
Why nurses choose Novello in Rutland
Local shifts, honest pay and a team that actually answers the phone.
Work close to home
Rutland is compact, so a short drive covers a lot of it. Pick up shifts in Oakham and Uppingham care homes, community rounds out across the villages, or head to the larger hospitals in Leicester, Peterborough and Stamford when you want them. You decide how far you travel.
Pay you can see up front
Every shift shows its rate before you accept it. No guessing and no surprises. You confirm the work, do the shift, and get paid on Novello’s usual weekly cycle.
Compliance kept simple
We keep your DBS, mandatory training and revalidation paperwork in order so your file stays ready to go. When a Rutland home or a Leicester ward needs cover at short notice, you can say yes without a scramble.
The county we cover
The healthcare landscape in Rutland
Rutland has no acute hospital of its own, so its NHS care is shared between neighbouring trusts and delivered close to home by community teams.
With a population of around 41,000, Rutland leans on hospitals beyond its borders. Most emergency and acute care runs through University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, whose Leicester Royal Infirmary holds the only accident and emergency department for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and one of the busiest single emergency units in the country. Its sister sites, Glenfield Hospital and Leicester General Hospital, add cardiac, respiratory and renal work, and Glenfield runs one of the largest ECMO services of its kind. To the east, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust’s Peterborough City Hospital takes many Rutland residents for acute and emergency care. The nearest designated major trauma centre for the region is the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham. Nurses living in Rutland are within reach of all of them.
Closer to home, Rutland Memorial Hospital in Oakham is a community hospital where Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust runs the inpatient ward for sub-acute care, complex rehabilitation and end of life care, and the trust also provides mental health, community and learning disability services across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The county’s adult community mental health team, the East Leicestershire CMHT Rutland, is based at the Oakham site. District and community nurses cover the market towns and outlying villages, and Stamford and Rutland Hospital, just over the Lincolnshire border, offers a minor injuries unit, outpatient clinics and day surgery through North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust. Rutland is also home to HMP Stocken at Stretton, a category C men’s prison, while independent surgical work sits a drive away at Spire Leicester Hospital in Oadby and Nuffield Health Leicester Hospital.
Where we work
Where we cover in and around Rutland
From village care homes to city wards, we cover the settings Rutland’s nurses actually work in.
Hospitals and theatres
The nearest large hospitals sit outside the county, at Leicester Royal Infirmary, Glenfield and Peterborough City Hospital, with day surgery and outpatients closer at Stamford and Rutland Hospital. We place nurses and theatre staff across ward, treatment and surgical roles whenever you want acute work.
Care homes and community
This is Rutland’s core. Homes in Oakham and Uppingham such as Rutland Care Village, plus district and community nursing across villages like Cottesmore, Ketton and Ryhall, keep steady demand for nurses and healthcare assistants.
Mental health and secure
Community mental health runs from Rutland Memorial Hospital in Oakham through Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, and HMP Stocken at Stretton needs healthcare cover inside the walls. We support work in both.
We cover Oakham, Uppingham, Cottesmore, Ketton, Ryhall, Whissendine, Empingham, Langham and the villages in between.
Working across the border? We also cover the East Midlands, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.
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Rutland and the areas around it
We cover the whole county plus the hospital towns just over its borders in Leicester, Peterborough and Stamford.
Specialisms in Rutland
Specialisms we cover in Rutland
Whatever your ward or setting, there is likely work for it within a sensible drive of home.
- Nursing & care homes
- Mental health
- Prison nursing
- Critical care
- Theatres
Nursing & care homes
Rutland is one of England’s oldest counties. At the 2021 Census, 26.3 per cent of residents were aged 65 or over, against 18.7 per cent for England as a whole, and the number of over 65s had grown by roughly a third in a decade. That shapes the work here. Residential, nursing and dementia beds at homes like Rutland Care Village in Oakham, alongside smaller registered homes across the county, mean steady demand for nurses and carers who are good with older, frailer residents.
Mental health
Mental health services for Rutland are provided by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, which covers Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The county’s adult community mental health team, the East Leicestershire CMHT Rutland, is based at Rutland Memorial Hospital in Oakham, while inpatient and specialist mental health beds sit at the trust’s Leicester units. We place mental health nurses and support workers across community and inpatient roles.
Prison nursing
Rutland does have a prison. HMP Stocken, near Stretton on the county’s northern edge, is a category C men’s training prison. Prison healthcare is nursing work in its own right, covering primary care, medication rounds, mental health and substance misuse, and it suits nurses who want variety away from a ward. When custodial healthcare shifts come up here, or at nearby estates, we can place experienced nurses into them.
Critical care
Rutland has no critical care unit of its own. The nearest intensive care and major trauma sit at Leicester Royal Infirmary and, for the region’s most serious injuries, the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham. Peterborough City Hospital adds further critical care capacity to the east. For ITU and HDU nurses living in Rutland, all three are within commuting distance.
Theatres
Surgical work for Rutland’s nurses is mostly a short drive away. Day surgery runs at Stamford and Rutland Hospital, larger NHS theatres at Leicester Royal Infirmary, Glenfield and Peterborough City Hospital, and independent lists at Spire Leicester Hospital in Oadby, which has four operating theatres, and Nuffield Health Leicester Hospital. We place scrub, anaesthetic and recovery nurses across NHS and private theatres.
Care & support work in Rutland
Care and support work in Rutland
Most care in Rutland is delivered by care assistants and support workers rather than registered nurses. Rutland County Council is one of the smallest adult social care authorities in England, serving a county of just over 41,000 people, and the work spans elderly care homes around Oakham, supported living across the villages and a long-established learning-disability community. Whatever your background, there is regular work near you.
- Care assistant
- Support worker
- Dementia care
- Learning disability
Care assistant
Rutland is one of England’s oldest counties: at the 2021 Census 26.3% of residents were aged 65 or over, against 18.7% for England as a whole. Most of the county’s care homes are clustered around Oakham, including the 82-bed Rutland Care Village and the 68-bed Oakham Grange, both registered for residential and nursing care. Care assistants are the backbone of these homes, supporting older residents with everyday living, personal care and companionship.
Support worker
Rutland County Council is one of the smallest adult social care authorities in England, and in a county of just over 41,000 people most disability support is delivered in people’s own homes and small local settings rather than large institutions. Registered younger-adult services such as Willowbrook in Oakham sit alongside home-based and supported-living packages, so support workers here help the people they support live as independently as possible across the county’s market towns and villages.
Dementia care
As one of England’s oldest counties — where the over-65 population grew by roughly a third between the 2011 and 2021 Censuses — Rutland has a rising number of older people living with dementia. Most of its care homes are registered for dementia, including Rutland Care Village and Oakham Grange in Oakham and Barchester’s Tixover House and Chater Lodge towards Stamford. Dementia care is some of the most valued work in the sector, supporting residents to live well day to day.
Learning disability
Rutland has a genuinely distinctive learning-disability provider in The Lodge Trust at Market Overton, a Christian charity that has supported adults with learning disabilities since 1984. It offers registered homes for around 30 people alongside work and activity at its country park, shop and café, and support workers here help the people they support build skills, find work and take part in community life.
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For Rutland employers
Hiring nurses and carers in Rutland?
If you run a care home, community service or clinic in the county, we can help you fill the gaps.
We work with care homes in Oakham and Uppingham, community and domiciliary services across the villages, and clinical settings on the Leicester, Peterborough and Stamford borders. Whether you need a single nurse for a night or ongoing cover for a nursing home, tell us the setting and we will send people who fit it.
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Rutland nursing agency questions
Does Novello cover the whole of Rutland?
Yes. We cover Oakham, Uppingham and the villages across the county, and because Rutland is small we also place nurses in nearby Leicester, Peterborough and Stamford when you want hospital work.
Is there a hospital in Rutland I would work at?
Rutland has no acute hospital. Rutland Memorial Hospital in Oakham is a community hospital where Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust runs the inpatient ward. For ward, theatre or emergency work you would travel to Leicester Royal Infirmary, Peterborough City Hospital or Stamford and Rutland Hospital, all within a reasonable drive.
What kind of shifts are most common in Rutland?
Care home and community nursing. Rutland is one of England's oldest counties, so residential, nursing and dementia homes such as Rutland Care Village, along with district and community rounds, make up much of the local work.
How and when do I get paid?
You see each shift's rate before you accept it in the app, and you are paid on Novello's regular weekly cycle. There are no hidden deductions and nothing to chase.
Can I pick up prison or mental health shifts near Rutland?
Yes. HMP Stocken near Stretton offers prison healthcare work, and mental health roles run through Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, with the county's adult community mental health team based at Rutland Memorial Hospital and inpatient beds at its Leicester units. Tell us your experience and we will match you.
Ready to pick up shifts in Rutland?
Download the Novello app, add your details and start seeing local shifts with the pay shown up front. Whether you are in Oakham, Uppingham or one of the villages, we will help you find work that suits your week.
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