Travelling to work

You can find a handy journey planner at Travel Choice, where you can plan your cycle, walk, bus or train journey to work. 

The website also provides details of car share schemes in your area.

Walking or running to work is a great option if you live locally.

The King’s Mill Hospital site also benefits from being across from King’s Mill reservoir, which is a great site for a 40-minute lunch time walk, or jog.

There are facilities at our sites for showering and changing, which you can find information on further down the page.

While there are no rules against wearing your uniform on your journey to work, please remember that you are representing the Trust when wearing this.

The main pedestrian access points to our sites are:

King's Mill Hospital:

• King's Mill Road East
• Sutton Road
• Wilmore Way.

Newark Hospital:

• Boundary Road
• Bowbridge Road.

Mansfield Community Hospital:

• Stockwell Gate.

You can also join the Sherwood Forest Hospitals virtual exercise group on Facebook to share your progress, who run regular exercise challenges for you to take part in.

While there are no rules against wearing your uniform on your journey to work, please remember that you are representing the Trust when wearing this.

Cycling facilities

We have secure lockers for bicycles on our sites.

King's Mill Hospital

The main cycling sheds can be found near the Education centre, behind the renal unit. 

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The hospital provides a secure facility with bike racks and a door locking system that requires a 4-digit code, which can be obtained by contacting wesley.burton@nhs.net. Once you have the code you can open the box which provides access to the padlock key.

Please be mindful of others when using the facility and store locks that are not in use on the wire fencing around the facility rather than on the bike racks. If you are planning on leaving SFH permanently, then please take your lock when you leave the Trust.

There are further cycle racks available, including a covered racking system just outside the main entrance to the hospital. The What3words reference is dent.slap.point.

Newark Hospital

There are two cycle storage facilities at Newark Hospital. 

• To the left of the main entrance there are two covered areas with facility to lock your bike to a secure structure.
• There are also cycling facilities near the goods receipt building.

Bicycle maintenance

Nottinghamshire County Council offer a programme of Dr Bike events in Mansfield, Ashfield and Worksop where you can get your bike checked over by a trained cycle maintenance professional.

Book a session on the Travel Choices website.

Cycle to Work Scheme

The Cycle to Work Scheme is a Government backed initiative that enables you to obtain a bike and/or cycling accessories to use for riding to work and the monthly cost is paid for via salary sacrifice.

A salary sacrifice happens when you give up the right to receive part of your salary due. The salary sacrifice enables you to pay back the loan on your bike, accessories and safety equipment from your gross rather than net pay (before tax and National Insurance contributions are removed) for the hire period, allowing you to benefit from income tax and NI relief which is where savings are accrued.

The maximum package value could be up to £10,000.

Typical savings on the scheme can be up to 40% for basic rate tax payers, and 49% for higher rate tax payers, but the actual amount you pay depends on your personal tax band.

For more information, see the Vivup website.

King's Mill Hospital

There are several showers available for staff spread across King’s Mill Hospital, which can be found in the following locations:

Female changing rooms:

• Endoscopy, room number 020130
• Women and Childrens Level 1, room number 031043
• Ground floor near x-ray, room number 060209
• Theatres, room number 070074
• Histopathology, room number 171034
• Pathology, room number 161010
• FM catering, 120057 - please note this is for use by FM catering staff only

Male changing rooms:

• Endoscopy, room number 020133
• Next to SBU, room number 031061
• Theatres, room number 070276
• Pathology, room number 161014
• FM catering, 120058 - please note this is for use by FM catering staff only

Multi-use changing rooms:

• Welcome Treatment centre / clinic 15, room number 034030
• Ward 1, room no?
• Old Carlin room ensuite, room number 062161
• Overnight stay level 3, room number 033079
• Overnight stay level 4, room number 034067
• Clinic 10, 04U118

Newark Hospital

Male and female staff changing rooms are located on level 1 near the Boardroom, and there are showering facilities in the on-call rooms.

There are also showers solely for the use of theatre's staff in the theatre department.

Mansfield Community Hospital

There are changing rooms with showers on level 1, on the FM corridor.

Travel by bus

All three of our hospital sites are accessible by public bus stops.

There are two public bus stops on the grounds of our King’s Mill Hospital site, dropping and picking up close to the main entrance.

The bus stops are accessible using the Stagecoach number 1 bus service.

You can also use Trent Barton buses from the bus stop outside the reservoir.

There is a bus stop to the right of Mansfield Community Hospital, on Stockwell Gate.

At Newark Hospital, a bus stop can be found on Boundary Road next to the main entrance, and one on Bowbridge Road, outside the Eastwood Centre.

Stagecoach Smart Commute

SmartCommute King’s Mill Hospital has been developed in partnership by Stagecoach East Midlands and the Sherwood Forest NHS Foundation Trust to encourage NHS employees to travel to and from work by bus.

The scheme offer SFH staff exclusive low price bus travel that cannot be beaten by any publicly available equivalent bus ticket in the same area. It means no stressful driving situations and no parking hassles either. You can use the service for leisure too.

All Sherwood Forest NHS Foundation Trust employees in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire based at King's Mill Hospital or Mansfield Community Hospital are eligible to join.

For more information, visit our Stagecoach SmartCommute page.

Trentbarton SuperCommuter

Save up to 30% on bus fares with Trentbarton's SuperCommuter scheme.

SuperCommuter offers discounted travel for employees, with a range of ticketing options available through salary sacrifice and Direct Debit, starting at £64 for the threes, and £129 for the entire Trentbarton and Kinchbus network.

For more information about the scheme, visit the Trentbarton website.

To join the scheme, contact Julie Dennis (Senior Soft FM Manager) by emailing sfh-tr.estates@nhs.net. 

Travel by train

The closest train stations to King's Mill Hospital and Mansfield Community Hospital are:

• Mansfield train station
• Sutton Parkway train station

Mansfield Train station is next to the bus station where you can get buses to Mansfield Community or King’s Mill hospital every ten minutes. It is also a nine-minute walk to Mansfield Community Hospital.

If travelling to Sutton Parkway you can find a bus stop on Low Moor Road, a few yards away from the station entrance.

The closest train stations to Newark Hospital are:

• Newark Castle train station
• Newark Northgate train station.

If alighting from Newark Castle, you can find a bus stop on Great North Road outside the Council offices.

From Newark Northgate station it is a 15-minute walk to the nearest bus stop which is outside Aldi on Newark Northgate.

As the train stations sites are not within walking distance to the hospitals, we would advise using public transport to continue your journey to the hospital.

Given the high number of patients, visitors and staff attending our sites on a daily basis, there has been increasing pressure on the availability of car parking spaces.

Therefore, where possible, we encourage you not to drive to our sites.

Onsite staff parking

There are 10 car parks for staff at King’s Mill Hospital, a separate staff car park at Mansfield Community Hospital, and a shared car park as well as a staff-only car park at Newark Hospital.

Please note that the car parks at all three of our sites will operate on an ANPR system.

Staff who wish to park in a visitor car park at any time must pay visitor parking fees or risk receiving a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN).

You can find more details about visitor parking on our visitor parking webpage.

EV car chargers

There are 24 electric charging points available at King’s Mill Hospital and two at Newark Hospital, which are available to use for a fee of 55p/kWh.

To use the charging points, you will need to complete and return this application form (opens in new window) to sfh-tr.estates@nhs.net and then follow these steps:

• Download the Pod Point app – available from your App store
• Register with your personal email address
• Top up the app with funds

Then send another email to to sfh-tr.estates@nhs.net with the following information:

• Your staff members car parking pass number (this can be found on the lower right section of the white card) & vehicle registration number details – Estates and Facilities staff will verify you have access to the SFH car parking system.
• The email address registered with your pod point account so Estates and Facilities staff can add that to our pod point system.

You can also see this user guide (opens in new window) which goes into further details on how to register for the app.

Motorbike, moped and scooter parking

There are spaces for motorbikes to park at our King's Mill Hospital site and these are marked up accordingly.