Find nursing shifts across Shropshire
From the Wrekin and the Shropshire Hills to the Welsh border, pick up shifts that fit your life. Hospital, care home, community, mental health and secure work, from the Royal Shrewsbury and the Princess Royal in Telford to the market towns, all booked from the Novello app with your pay confirmed before you accept.
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Nursing in Shropshire
Work that fits around your life
One app to find local shifts, see your pay and stay compliant, backed by a team that knows the patch from Shrewsbury and Telford out to Oswestry, Ludlow and the Welsh border.
Shifts close to home
Pick up work near you, from Shrewsbury, Telford and Oswestry to Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton and Whitchurch.
Know your pay up front
See your confirmed rate before you accept a shift. No surprises, no chasing.
Compliance made simple
We keep your documents and checks in one place, so you are ready for your next shift.
The county we cover
Every kind of nursing, right across Shropshire
Shropshire is one of England’s largest and most rural counties, and its healthcare stretches from the acute wards of the Royal Shrewsbury and the Princess Royal in Telford to a national orthopaedic centre at Gobowen and a string of small community hospitals.
Acute care in the county is anchored by the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, which runs two district general hospitals at opposite ends of the county: the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in the county town and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. The trust sits within the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin integrated care system and serves a population spread across a large rural area reaching to the Welsh border, so acute nursing here can mean anything from a busy emergency department to a long rural transfer. Independent surgery adds to the mix at the Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Hospital on Longden Road.
Beyond the two district generals there is a distinctive spread of specialist and community work. At Gobowen near Oswestry, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital is one of the country’s leading centres for orthopaedic and spinal surgery, drawing patients from well beyond Shropshire. Adult acute mental health inpatient care runs from the Redwoods Centre at Bicton Heath in Shrewsbury, provided by Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, while Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust runs community hospitals at Ludlow, Bridgnorth, Bishop’s Castle and Whitchurch and provides healthcare inside HMP Stoke Heath near Market Drayton. Add a large rural care market and community nursing across the hills, and the range of work here is genuinely wide.
Where we work
From the county town to the Welsh border
We place nurses, ODPs and care staff in settings right across Shropshire, not just the Royal Shrewsbury and the Princess Royal in Telford.
Hospitals and theatres
NHS and independent hospitals across the county, from the Royal Shrewsbury and the Princess Royal in Telford to the specialist orthopaedic lists at Gobowen and day-case surgery at the Nuffield in Shrewsbury.
Care and community
Nursing and residential homes, plus community and district nursing across a large rural county, from the Shropshire Hills to the community hospitals at Ludlow, Bridgnorth and Whitchurch.
Mental health and secure
Inpatient mental health at the Redwoods Centre in Shrewsbury, plus healthcare at HMP Stoke Heath near Market Drayton, the county’s only prison, for nurses who want varied, autonomous work.
We work with candidates and clients right across the county, from Shrewsbury, Telford and Oswestry to Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Whitchurch, Wem and the villages of the Shropshire Hills.
Working across the border? We also cover the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Herefordshire.
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See where the work is across Shropshire
Search the map to find the hospitals, trusts and towns we cover across Shropshire.
Specialisms in Shropshire
Your specialism, close to home
Whatever you specialise in, from the orthopaedic theatres at Gobowen to the county’s rural care homes and HMP Stoke Heath, Shropshire has genuine demand. Here is where the work is.
- Nursing & care homes
- Mental health
- Prison nursing
- Critical care
- Theatres
Nursing & care homes
Shropshire is one of England’s largest and most sparsely populated counties, and its care market is spread across market towns and villages, from Oswestry and Whitchurch in the north to Ludlow and Cleobury Mortimer in the south. That means steady work for RGNs, RMNs and experienced care staff in nursing and residential homes, close to home.
Mental health
Adult acute mental health inpatient care in Shropshire runs from the Redwoods Centre at Bicton Heath in Shrewsbury, provided by Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, whose Clee Building provides low secure forensic care. With community and crisis mental health teams working across a large rural county, there is regular work here for RMNs across inpatient, secure and community settings.
Prison nursing
Shropshire’s secure estate centres on HMP and YOI Stoke Heath near Market Drayton, a category C adult male prison and young offender institution, where healthcare is provided by Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust. Prison nursing is autonomous, varied work, and we help you get the enhanced clearance sorted before you start.
Critical care
Critical care in the county is concentrated at the two Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust sites, the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, which between them cover emergency, high dependency and intensive care for a large rural population reaching to the Welsh border. For ITU and HDU nurses confident with unstable patients, critical care shifts come up across both sites.
Theatres
Theatre work in Shropshire spans NHS and specialist lists. The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital at Gobowen near Oswestry is a national orthopaedic and spinal centre with a heavy elective theatre programme, alongside the NHS lists at the Royal Shrewsbury and the Princess Royal and day-case surgery at the Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Hospital on Longden Road. For scrub, anaesthetic and recovery nurses, ODPs and surgical first assistants, that means regular theatre work across the county.
Care & support work in Shropshire
Care and support work in Shropshire
Most care in Shropshire is delivered by care assistants and support workers rather than registered nurses. Shropshire has one of the oldest populations in England — a quarter of residents are aged 65 or over — and the work spans a large rural county, from older people’s homes in the market towns to supported living out in the community. Shropshire Council runs adult social care across one of England’s largest and most sparsely populated unitary areas, reaching from Oswestry and Whitchurch in the north to Ludlow and Cleobury Mortimer in the south. Whatever your background, there is regular work near you.
- Care assistant
- Support worker
- Dementia care
- Learning disability
Care assistant
Shropshire has one of the oldest populations in England: at the 2021 Census a quarter of residents (25.3%) were aged 65 or over and the county’s median age was 48, eight years above the England figure of 40, after the over-65 population grew by almost 30% in a single decade. That underpins a large rural care market — the Shrewsbury not-for-profit Coverage Care alone runs ten homes across the county’s market towns. Care assistants are the backbone of these homes, supporting older residents with everyday living, personal care and companionship.
Support worker
Alongside the care homes, much of Shropshire’s disability support is delivered in people’s own homes and out in the community across a large rural county. The Shrewsbury charity Bethphage, for example, supports more than 200 adults with learning disabilities and autism across Shropshire and the wider West Midlands, running supported living alongside day opportunities in Bridgnorth, Chelmarsh and Ellesmere. That means steady demand for support workers who help the people they support live as independently as possible, out in the community rather than in a care-home setting.
Dementia care
With around one Shropshire resident in thirty now aged 85 or over — the age group at highest risk of dementia — demand for dementia care is rising fastest in exactly the market towns where the population is oldest. Providers are responding: Coverage Care has opened an enhanced Bluebell Dementia Unit at Greenfields Care Home in Whitchurch, designed around residents’ wellbeing and comfort. Dementia care is some of the most valued work in the sector, supporting residents to live well day to day.
Learning disability
Learning-disability support in Shropshire is increasingly built around independence and community living rather than long-stay hospital care. Bethphage, based in Shrewsbury, specialises in Positive Behaviour Support and autism and works within the national Transforming Care drive to help people with a learning disability move out of hospital settings and into supported living in their own communities. Support workers here help the people they support build the skills, routines and confidence to run their own day-to-day lives.
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Staffing a shift in Shropshire?
Compliant local nurses, ODPs and care staff, whenever your Shropshire rota needs them.
Whether you run a nursing home in the Shropshire Hills, a ward in Telford or Shrewsbury, or a community hospital in Ludlow or Bridgnorth, we can help you fill it. From a single last-minute shift to an ongoing rota, everything is managed through one platform. Less chasing, less admin for your team.
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Shropshire nursing questions, answered
Which hospitals does Novello cover in Shropshire?
Shropshire's acute care is anchored by the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, both run by the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, with specialist orthopaedic and spinal care at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital near Oswestry and independent surgery at the Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Hospital. We place nurses, ODPs and carers across hospital, care home, community and secure settings throughout the county, and you are never tied to one site.
Do you have work outside the main towns?
Yes. Shropshire is a large, rural county, and a lot of our work is in the market towns and villages, from Ludlow and Bridgnorth to Market Drayton, Whitchurch and Wem, in care homes and community nursing as well as hospitals. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust also runs community hospitals at Ludlow, Bridgnorth, Bishop's Castle and Whitchurch.
Is there mental health nursing work in Shropshire?
There is. Adult acute mental health inpatient care runs from the Redwoods Centre in Shrewsbury, run by Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, and there is community and crisis mental health work across the county, so there is regular work for RMNs.
How does pay work?
You see your confirmed rate before you accept any shift, in the app. No surprises and no chasing timesheets. Your pay is agreed up front.
I am not near Shrewsbury or Telford, can I still register?
Absolutely. We cover the whole county and place staff near where they live, from Oswestry and Whitchurch in the north to Ludlow and Cleobury Mortimer in the south. Register once and we will match you to shifts near you.
Ready to find your next shift in Shropshire?
Register with Novello and pick up hospital, care, mental health and theatre work across Shropshire, with your pay confirmed before you accept. Download the app and get started today.
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