Find nursing shifts across Somerset
Book ward, theatre, mental health and care shifts across Somerset straight from the Novello app, with your pay confirmed before you accept. Register once and pick up work near Taunton, Yeovil, Bridgwater, Bath and the coast whenever it suits you.
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Nursing in Somerset
Why nurses choose Novello in Somerset
A simple app, honest pay and compliance sorted, so you can get on with the job, whether that is a shift at Musgrove Park in Taunton or a nursing home in Bridgwater.
Shifts across the county in your pocket
See and book open shifts from Taunton and Yeovil out to Bridgwater, Wells, Chard and the Burnham and Minehead coast, all from your phone. Whether you want to stay near Musgrove Park or travel a little for a better run of days, you choose where and when you work.
Pay confirmed before you say yes
You see the rate for every shift up front, before you accept it, so there are no surprises when the money lands. No chasing, no guessing, no fine print you have to decode after the fact.
Compliance handled properly
We keep your NMC registration, DBS, mandatory training and references in order and remind you before anything lapses. That keeps you cleared to move between Somerset NHS Foundation Trust wards and independent settings like Nuffield Health Taunton without a last minute scramble.
The county we cover
Nursing in Somerset: the local landscape
One trust runs almost everything clinical in Somerset, which shapes where the shifts are.
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust runs the county’s two acute hospitals, Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton and Yeovil District Hospital, after Yeovil joined the trust on 1 April 2023. That built on the 2020 merger that first brought acute, community and mental health services together. Uniquely for an English county, a single trust now holds acute, community and mental health care plus a share of GP practices through its Symphony Healthcare Services arm. Both Musgrove Park and Yeovil run 24 hour emergency departments and intensive care and sit in the Severn Major Trauma Network as trauma units. The network’s major trauma centre is Southmead Hospital in Bristol, so the most serious cases are taken there rather than treated in the county, something worth knowing when you weigh up critical care work. Ceremonial Somerset also takes in the Royal United Hospitals Bath (the RUH), itself a trauma unit in the same network, and Weston General on the North Somerset coast.
Mental health in Somerset also sits inside Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. Acute inpatient care runs from the Wellsprings Hospital site on Cheddon Road in Taunton, with Rydon wards 1 and 2, Pyrland wards 1 and 2 and Holford ward as the psychiatric intensive care unit, plus Rowan wards 1 and 2 at Summerlands in Yeovil, which absorbed the former St Andrews beds from Wells in 2024, and the Wessex House adolescent unit in Bridgwater, the first CAMHS inpatient unit in the South West to gain Royal College of Psychiatrists accreditation. Community mental health teams work from bases including Foundation House on Wellsprings Road in Taunton, alongside minor injury units at the community hospitals in Frome, Glastonbury, Shepton Mallet, Chard, Bridgwater, Minehead and Burnham-on-Sea. There is no operating prison inside Somerset, as the old HMP Shepton Mallet closed in 2013, so secure work means forensic mental health here or the nearest estate over the borders. For theatre and elective work the independent sector centres on Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital, with the NHS-owned Sulis Hospital at Peasedown St John near Bath a short hop across the county line.
Where we work
Where we cover in Somerset
From Musgrove Park and Yeovil District to care homes and community teams in the market towns, we place nurses right across the county.
Acute hospitals and theatres
Ward, department and theatre shifts at Musgrove Park in Taunton and Yeovil District, plus the Royal United Hospitals Bath and Weston General at the county’s edges, and elective lists at Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital.
Care homes and community
Nursing and residential homes across Taunton, Bridgwater, Yeovil, Wells and the smaller market towns, plus community and district nursing linked to Bridgwater, Chard and the coastal community hospitals.
Mental health and secure
Acute mental health at the Wellsprings site in Taunton and Summerlands in Yeovil, plus the Wessex House adolescent unit in Bridgwater and psychiatric intensive care on Holford ward at Wellsprings.
We cover Taunton, Yeovil, Bridgwater, Wells, Glastonbury, Street, Frome, Chard, Wellington, Minehead, Burnham-on-Sea, Bath and Weston-super-Mare.
Working the wider South West? See our South West England hub, or the neighbouring counties of Devon and Wiltshire.
On the map
Somerset hospitals and settings on the map
From Musgrove Park in Taunton to Yeovil District and the community hospitals in between, here is where Novello nurses pick up shifts across Somerset.
Specialisms in Somerset
Specialisms we staff in Somerset
Whatever your field, from theatres at Nuffield Health Taunton to the Holford intensive care unit at Wellsprings, there is a Somerset setting that needs it.
- Nursing & care homes
- Mental health
- Prison nursing
- Critical care
- Theatres
Nursing & care homes
Somerset is an older county and getting older. The Somerset Provider Network counts around 112 care homes for older people with roughly 5,090 CQC-registered beds, and the council forecasts the over-65 population to rise by about 36 percent between 2023 and 2040, with the over-85s close to doubling. The same forecasts show the number of over-65s needing help with at least one self-care or domestic task rising by more than 40 percent by 2040. That mix keeps steady demand for nursing home and dementia care shifts in Taunton, Bridgwater, Yeovil and the market towns.
Mental health
Mental health work is delivered by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, which folds acute, community and mental health into one organisation. Acute wards run from the Wellsprings Hospital site in Taunton, including Rydon 1 and 2, Pyrland 1 and 2 and the Holford psychiatric intensive care unit, with Rowan wards 1 and 2 at Summerlands in Yeovil, which took on the former St Andrews beds from Wells in 2024, and Wessex House for young people aged 13 to 18 in Bridgwater. Community mental health teams cover the county from bases including Foundation House on Wellsprings Road in Taunton.
Prison nursing
Somerset has no operating prison. HMP Shepton Mallet, once the country’s oldest working jail, closed in 2013 and has not been replaced. Secure and forensic nursing in the county therefore sits within mental health, such as the Holford psychiatric intensive care unit at Wellsprings in Taunton, while the nearest prison estate lies over the borders at HMP Bristol, HMP Leyhill in Gloucestershire and HMP Erlestoke in Wiltshire. If prison nursing is your field, we can point you to those neighbouring sites.
Critical care
Both Musgrove Park in Taunton and Yeovil District run intensive care and 24 hour emergency departments, and both act as trauma units within the Severn Major Trauma Network. The network’s major trauma centre is Southmead Hospital in Bristol, so the most complex trauma is stabilised locally and transferred there rather than managed in the county. For ITU, HDU and resus nurses that means steady acute and critical care work at Taunton and Yeovil, with the RUH Bath a further option at the county’s northern edge.
Theatres
Theatre and recovery work spans the NHS lists at Musgrove Park and Yeovil District and the independent sector. Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital, open since 1974, runs three ultra clean air theatres covering orthopaedic and spinal surgery, ophthalmology and more, and was rated Good with outstanding leadership by the CQC in 2024. The Sulis Hospital near Bath adds further elective capacity just over the county line for scrub, anaesthetic and recovery nurses.
Care & support work in Somerset
Care and support work in Somerset
Most care in Somerset is delivered by care assistants and support workers rather than registered nurses. Since April 2023 a single unitary authority, Somerset Council, has run adult social care across the whole historic county, and the work spans elderly care homes, supported living and learning-disability support in an ageing, largely rural county. Whatever your background, there is regular work near you.
- Care assistant
- Support worker
- Dementia care
- Learning disability
Care assistant
The Somerset Provider Network counts around 112 care homes for older people across the county, with roughly 5,090 CQC-registered beds, and the council’s own forecasts show the number of over-65s needing help with at least one everyday self-care or domestic task rising by more than 40% by 2040. Care assistants are the backbone of these homes, supporting residents with everyday living, personal care and companionship as demand climbs in Taunton, Bridgwater, Yeovil and the market towns.
Support worker
Somerset Council actively promotes alternatives to residential care: its Shared Lives Scheme places disabled adults with approved local carers in ordinary family homes rather than care homes, and the council continues to commission supported living across the county’s towns. 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
Dementia risk climbs steeply with age, and Somerset Council forecasts the county’s over-85 population will nearly double between 2023 and 2040, so demand for dementia care is set to rise sharply. Somerset has responded through local Dementia Action Alliances and a growing network of Dementia Friends, and dementia care remains some of the most valued work in the sector, supporting residents to live well day to day.
Learning disability
Somerset is home to Discovery, a major learning-disability and autism support provider in the county and now part of the national not-for-profit Dimensions. Support workers here help the people they support — autistic people and people with learning disabilities — build skills and independence in supported living and out in the community, rather than in a care-home setting.
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Hiring nurses in Somerset?
If you run a ward, home or community service in Somerset, we can help you fill it.
We supply registered nurses and healthcare assistants to hospitals, nursing and residential homes, mental health units and community services across Somerset, from Taunton and Yeovil to Bridgwater, Wells, Frome and the coastal towns. Whether you need cover for a single night on a busy medical ward or a regular block for a dementia unit, our compliant, app-booked nurses can step in quickly.
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Somerset nursing agency: common questions
Where in Somerset does Novello place nurses?
Right across the county. Most shifts cluster around the two acute hospitals, Musgrove Park in Taunton and Yeovil District, but we also cover care homes, mental health units and community services in Bridgwater, Wells, Glastonbury, Frome, Chard, Minehead and the coastal towns, plus the Royal United Hospitals Bath and Weston General at the county's edges.
Do you cover Bath and Weston as well as Taunton and Yeovil?
Yes. Ceremonial Somerset takes in Bath, with the Royal United Hospitals Bath, and North Somerset, with Weston General on the coast, so we place nurses there as well as in the core of the county around Taunton and Yeovil run by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
What kinds of shifts can I pick up in Somerset?
Ward and department shifts in the acute hospitals, theatre and recovery lists including at Nuffield Health Taunton, mental health work at the Wellsprings site in Taunton and Summerlands in Yeovil, and nursing home, dementia and community roles across the market towns. You book whatever suits your registration and experience.
How does pay work with Novello?
You see the confirmed rate for each shift before you accept it in the app, so you always know what you are agreeing to. There is nothing hidden and nothing to chase after the shift is done.
I am a healthcare assistant, not a registered nurse. Can I still register?
Yes. We place healthcare assistants as well as registered nurses across Somerset, in hospitals, care homes and community settings. Register your details and we will match you to the shifts you are cleared and experienced for.
Ready to work across Somerset?
Register with Novello Healthcare in a few minutes and start seeing Somerset shifts, with pay confirmed up front, as soon as you are cleared. Even if the perfect shift is not live today, being registered means you are first in line when it is.
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