Find nursing shifts across South Yorkshire
Novello Healthcare places nurses and healthcare assistants right across South Yorkshire, from the big teaching hospitals in Sheffield to care homes and community services in Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley. Book shifts in a few taps through our app, see the pay confirmed before you accept, and get paid without the usual chasing.
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Nursing in South Yorkshire
Why nurses in South Yorkshire work with Novello
We keep it simple: real shifts near you, pay you can see before you say yes, and a team that sorts the paperwork so you can just turn up and nurse.
Shifts close to home
South Yorkshire is compact and well connected, so you are rarely far from work. We book shifts across Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and the Doncaster area, in hospital wards, theatres, care homes and community teams. Tell us how far you will travel and we will keep your list to settings you can actually reach, whether that is the Northern General in Sheffield or a nursing home out in the Dearne Valley.
Pay confirmed up front
You see the rate for every shift before you accept it, in the app, with no guessing and no surprises on the payslip. Nothing is hidden and there is no haggling after the fact. Accept a shift, work it, and get paid promptly through our own payroll.
Compliance handled for you
Our compliance team keeps your NMC registration, mandatory training, DBS and references in order and flags anything before it lapses. That matters here, where large employers like Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and secure sites such as HMP Doncaster run strict pre-placement checks. We keep you cleared so a booking never falls through at the last minute.
The area we cover
The South Yorkshire healthcare landscape
South Yorkshire packs a lot of healthcare into a small metropolitan county, from one of the region’s biggest teaching hospitals to district generals in every borough. Here is who does what.
Sheffield anchors the county. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest trusts in the country, running the Northern General Hospital, the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Weston Park Cancer Centre, the Jessop Wing maternity unit and the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital. The Northern General has been the adult Major Trauma Centre for South Yorkshire, Bassetlaw and North Derbyshire since 2012 and is home to the adult emergency department, a cardiothoracic centre and the Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Unit, while the Royal Hallamshire holds the regional neurosciences service and a dedicated neuro intensive care unit. Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust runs Sheffield Children’s Hospital, which has been the region’s paediatric Major Trauma Centre since 2012, along with the Ryegate Children’s Centre. Beyond the city, each borough has its own acute trust: Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Barnsley, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust at Rotherham Hospital, and Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Montagu Hospital in Mexborough.
On the mental health and community side, Sheffield is served by Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, the trust renamed in September 2025 from Sheffield Health and Social Care, which runs the city’s inpatient wards, the Endcliffe psychiatric intensive care unit at the Longley Centre and low secure services at Forest Lodge. Rotherham, Doncaster and the surrounding area are covered by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, known as RDaSH, whose main inpatient site is Tickhill Road Hospital in Doncaster and whose forensic services include the low secure Amber Lodge. The Doncaster area is also the county’s prison cluster, and the independent sector adds surgical capacity through Thornbury Hospital and Spire Claremont Hospital, both in Sheffield. Community nursing, district teams and a large care-home sector fill out the picture across all four boroughs.
Where we work
What we cover across South Yorkshire
Wherever you fit best, we have shifts. Our bookings span the county’s hospitals, its care and community services and its mental health and secure settings.
Hospitals and theatres
We place nurses and theatre staff across the county’s acute sites, from the Northern General and Royal Hallamshire in Sheffield to Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Rotherham Hospital and Barnsley Hospital, plus independent theatres at Thornbury and Spire Claremont. Ward nursing, recovery, scrub and ITU shifts all feature.
Care homes and community
South Yorkshire has a large residential and nursing-home sector across Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and the Barnsley and Dearne Valley towns, alongside NHS district and community teams. We book nurses and healthcare assistants into elderly and dementia care, nursing homes and community nursing roles right across the county.
Mental health and secure
From the inpatient wards run by Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and RDaSH’s Tickhill Road Hospital to low secure and forensic units, we cover mental health nursing across South Yorkshire, including the healthcare teams that work inside the Doncaster-area prisons.
That means shifts in and around Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley, Mexborough, Wath upon Dearne, Maltby, Dinnington, Stocksbridge and Penistone.
Novello covers the wider region too. If you work across the county boundary, see our Yorkshire nursing agency page, or our neighbouring West Yorkshire and Derbyshire pages.
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Where we place nurses across South Yorkshire
From Sheffield out to Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley, here is a snapshot of the settings across South Yorkshire where our nurses pick up shifts.
Specialisms in South Yorkshire
Specialisms we cover in South Yorkshire
Whatever your background, there is likely a home for it here. These are the areas we book most across the county.
- Nursing & care homes
- Mental health
- Prison nursing
- Critical care
- Theatres
Nursing & care homes
Older-people’s care is a big part of nursing in South Yorkshire, especially across the former mining towns of the Dearne and around Doncaster and Barnsley where the population is ageing. The Yorkshire and Humber region had around 2,700 registered residential care-home beds for every 100,000 people aged 65 and over as at April 2024, but nursing-home places across the region have fallen by roughly 21 per cent since 2014, so demand for registered nurses in homes is steady. We place nurses and carers into nursing homes, residential and dementia units across all four boroughs.
Mental health
Mental health nursing runs deep here. Sheffield is served by Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, renamed in September 2025 from Sheffield Health and Social Care, covering acute wards, the Endcliffe psychiatric intensive care unit and low secure care at Forest Lodge. Rotherham, Doncaster and the surrounding area are covered by RDaSH, with its main inpatient base at Tickhill Road Hospital in Doncaster and forensic services including the low secure Amber Lodge. We book RMNs and support staff across these settings.
Prison nursing
The Doncaster area is South Yorkshire’s prison cluster. HMP Doncaster is a large Category B local prison run by Serco, and just to the east, around Hatfield Woodhouse, sit HMP Moorland, HMP Lindholme and HMP Hatfield. Prison healthcare is nursing in a secure setting, from primary care and medicines to mental health and substance misuse, and we place nurses who want that kind of work. (New Hall, often confused with the cluster, is over the border in West Yorkshire.)
Critical care
For critical and acute care, the county’s focal point is the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, the adult Major Trauma Centre for South Yorkshire, Bassetlaw and North Derbyshire since 2012, with its cardiothoracic centre and the Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Unit. The Royal Hallamshire adds regional neurosciences and a neuro intensive care unit, Weston Park Cancer Centre handles specialist oncology, and Sheffield Children’s Hospital is the region’s paediatric Major Trauma Centre. We book ITU, HDU, theatre recovery and emergency nurses into these and the district general units at Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley.
Theatres
Theatre work spans the NHS and the independent sector. NHS lists run at the Northern General and Royal Hallamshire in Sheffield, Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Rotherham Hospital and Barnsley Hospital, while the independent sector adds Thornbury Hospital, run by Circle Health Group, and Spire Claremont Hospital, both in Sheffield. We place scrub, anaesthetic and recovery practitioners across all of them.
Care & support work in South Yorkshire
Care and support work in South Yorkshire
Most care in South Yorkshire is delivered by care assistants and support workers rather than registered nurses. The county’s four metropolitan councils — Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley — each run their own adult social care service, and the work spans elderly care homes in the old coalfield towns, supported living for disabled adults and specialist neuro-rehabilitation in Sheffield. Whatever your background, there is regular work near you.
- Care assistant
- Support worker
- Dementia care
- Brain injury
Care assistant
South Yorkshire’s care-home sector is concentrated in the old coalfield and Dearne Valley towns, where former mining communities in and around Doncaster, Barnsley, Mexborough and Wath upon Dearne are ageing in place. Doncaster alone has around 60 CQC-registered residential care homes, and care assistants are the backbone of these homes, supporting residents with everyday living, personal care and companionship.
Support worker
Supported living is Sheffield City Council’s stated preferred model of care for adults with a learning disability, chosen to give people more rights, choice and control than a residential home. 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
More than 13,000 people are recorded on GP dementia registers across the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board area, a recorded prevalence slightly above the England average. Dementia care is some of the most valued work in the sector, supporting residents to live well day to day in the county’s care and nursing homes.
Brain injury
South Yorkshire has a genuine specialist neuro cluster in Sheffield — the 23-bed STEPS Rehabilitation centre on Troutbeck Road and Cygnet’s 24-bed Daley Care Centre for neurological complex care at Deepcar, alongside NHS community brain injury rehabilitation in the city. 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 South Yorkshire employers
Hiring nurses in South Yorkshire?
If you run a ward, a care home or a community service anywhere in the county, we can help you fill gaps quickly with compliant, reliable staff.
We supply nurses and healthcare assistants to settings right across South Yorkshire, from care and nursing homes in Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley to community teams, mental health units and secure services around Doncaster. Every nurse we send is fully vetted and compliance-checked, so you get someone who can step onto the ward or into the home and get on with it. Tell us what you need and when, and we will match you with staff who know the local settings.
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South Yorkshire nursing: common questions
Which areas of South Yorkshire does Novello cover?
All of it. We book shifts across the whole metropolitan county, from Sheffield out to Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley, plus the towns in between like Mexborough, Wath upon Dearne, Maltby, Dinnington, Stocksbridge and Penistone. Tell us how far you are willing to travel and we will keep your shift list to places you can actually reach.
What kinds of nursing shifts are available in South Yorkshire?
A broad mix. Hospital ward and theatre work at sites like the Northern General, Royal Hallamshire, Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Rotherham Hospital and Barnsley Hospital; care-home and community nursing across all four boroughs; and mental health and secure work with providers such as Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and RDaSH, including the Doncaster-area prisons. We book RGNs, RMNs and healthcare assistants.
How does pay work?
You see the rate for every shift before you accept it, in the app, with nothing hidden. Once you have worked the shift you are paid promptly through our own payroll. No haggling, no chasing, no surprises on the payslip.
Do I need to sort my own compliance and training?
No. Our compliance team keeps your NMC registration, mandatory training, DBS and references up to date and flags anything before it lapses. That matters when you are working for the likes of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals or inside the Doncaster-area prisons, where checks are strict, and it means a booking will not fall through at the last minute.
I am a care home or NHS service in South Yorkshire. Can Novello supply staff?
Yes. We supply vetted, compliance-checked nurses and healthcare assistants to hospitals, care and nursing homes, community teams and mental health and secure settings right across the county. Get in touch with what you need and when, and we will match you with staff who know the local settings.
Ready to pick up shifts across South Yorkshire?
Register with Novello Healthcare today. It takes a few minutes, and once you are set up you can see and book South Yorkshire shifts straight from the app, with the pay confirmed before you accept. Even if we have nothing that suits you this week, getting registered means you are ready the moment the right shift lands.
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