Junior Sister/Charge Nurse, Assessment
Posted 12 hours 31 minutes ago by NHS
£80,000 - £100,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Worcestershire, Redditch, United Kingdom, B97 4
Job Description
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Junior Sister/Charge Nurse, Assessment The closing date is 10 February 2026
We currently have a vacancy for band 6 Sister AMU. As a Sister/Charge Nurse you will help lead the unit so that high quality, evidence based nursing care is delivered to our patients. You will provide strong leadership and mentor junior staff while you help support the senior team at a time of great change. You will be a highly visible leader and be experienced as a professional role model. In working in a progressively changing environment you will promote the Trusts values and be committed to high standards of service delivery alongside helping to achieve Trust and national standards and targets. The post is permanent & 34.5 hours (0.92 WTE).
Main duties of the job Responsibilities for establishing and maintaining communication and relationship both internally and externally.
Establish and maintain effective communication and foster good working relationships with all multidisciplinary teams, both internal and external.
Provide and receive complex and / or sensitive information from patients and staff. For example, breaking bad news to patients, giving complex information about procedures and their outcomes, dealing with performance issues, holding staff meetings. Able to support and talk to distressed patients, visitors, and staff members.
Responsible for cascading information to ward staff and chairing staff meetings from which minutes are provided.
Make use of electronic internal / external mail and Internet systems as appropriate and necessary.
Deal effectively with comments, complaints, or incidents that affect staff and users of the ward in accordance with complaints, risk management, or human resources procedures.
Bring to the attention of the Senior Sister/Charge any factors which may adversely affect patient care or service provision.
Report all serious incidents to the appropriate Manager / Director within 24 hours; these include Never Events, serious falls, and grade 3 or 4 pressure ulcers.
About us Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.
Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move forward.
Guided by our Values:
Being open and honest.
Ensuring people feel cared for.
Showing respect to everyone.
Our objectives are simple:
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job responsibilities Job Purpose:
To act as team leader for clinical staff.
To be responsible for clinical and non-clinical management of a ward area in the absence of the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse.
Key Duties:
Operational Responsibilities
Responsibilities for establishing and maintaining communication and relationship both internally and externally.
Establish and maintain effective communication and foster good working relationships with all multidisciplinary teams, both internal and external.
Provide and receive complex and / or sensitive information from patients and staff. For example, breaking bad news to patients, giving complex information about procedures and their outcomes, dealing with performance issues, holding staff meetings. Able to support and talk to distressed patients, visitors, and staff members.
Responsible for cascading information to ward staff and chairing staff meetings from which minutes are provided.
Make use of electronic internal / external mail and Internet systems as appropriate and necessary.
Deal effectively with comments, complaints, or incidents that affect staff and users of the ward in accordance with complaints, risk management, or human resources procedures.
Bring to the attention of the Senior Sister/Charge any factors which may adversely affect patient care or service provision.
Report all serious incidents to the appropriate Manager / Director within 24 hours; these include Never Events, serious falls, and grade 3 or 4 pressure ulcers.
Knowledge Skills & Experience (Also See Person Specification)
Be knowledgeable about the specific care requirements of patients who may be admitted to the area.
Be knowledgeable about current infection control procedures and policies and ensure all staff and visitors adhere to these at all times.
Be knowledgeable about the risks of infection and take responsibility for minimising cross infection within the clinical environment, assist in giving information and placing patients appropriately.
Be knowledgeable about all aspects of diabetes care.
Ensure that patient care is evidence based and that the patient journey is streamlined. Develop and implement patient pathways as directed.
Use a wide range of knowledge in determining at the time of assessment or admission, the most appropriate and safe patient pathway.
Identify, assess, and act accordingly at any point on the pathway including discharge when patients are no longer meeting the agreed appropriate and safe patient pathway.
Assess and act upon potential problems or issues to ensure a safe, effective environment for staff, patients, and visitors.
Identify, analyse, and act upon staff situations when there is conflict and / or deviation from Trust or local policies and procedures.
Identify, analyse, action and discuss with Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse as appropriate any change management issues that arise.
Planning and organisational skills
Assist in planning of duty rotas or alter planned rotas to ensure maximum service delivery, standards of patient care and human, and resource management. Use e-rostering as it becomes available.
Assist Senior Sister / Charge Nurse by utilising available resources to ensure safe and effective patient care e.g. periods of unplanned staff absence and / or equipment failure.
Be aware of Trust financial position and target objectives and ensure that ward area is as effective as possible in meeting these objectives.
Work with the multi-disciplinary team to streamline care and shorten patient length of stay.
Work with the multi-disciplinary team towards protocol led discharge for suitable patients.
Participate in Directorate / Departmental Sisters meetings.
Be involved in practice development and patient experience issues.
Responsibilities For Patient Care Therapy & Treatment
Oversee set patient care programmes in accordance with agreed policies, using expert nursing experience and skills.
Ensure that safe and effective nursing care is delivered, this to be in accordance with Trust policies and best practice guidelines, also Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Codes of Practice and guidelines.
Act as a role model when carrying out and demonstrating nursing care and procedures.
Ensure all staff carry out all appropriate general risk assessments within 24 hours of admission document and plan care accordingly e.g. manual handling, pressure risks, slips trips and falls, nutrition.
Ensure clinical staff assess the conditions of patients within the clinical area, ensuring that signs and symptoms are acted upon accordingly and in a timely fashion.
Ensure clinical area staff effectively manage the admission, transfer, and discharge of patients while incorporating other relevant Trust policies, for example Patients Property.
Ensure clinical area staff carry out appropriate nutritional risk assessments and follow current policies as indicated e.g. red tray policy, protected mealtimes.
Ensure clinical area staff participate in delivery of meals to patients and take responsibility for monitoring and recording dietary and fluid intake for a group of patients.
Undertake nurse led services which will include autonomous nurse led discharge within defined protocols where appropriate.
Supervision of, and participation in the discharge planning system and process and deal with specialty or complex plans of care by liaison with community nursing services and other agencies.
Work with patients, carers / relatives, nursing and other healthcare professionals in secondary care to promote timely discharge, through appropriate discharge planning.
Provide telephone advice to patients and / or their carers as appropriate.
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Junior Sister/Charge Nurse, Assessment The closing date is 10 February 2026
We currently have a vacancy for band 6 Sister AMU. As a Sister/Charge Nurse you will help lead the unit so that high quality, evidence based nursing care is delivered to our patients. You will provide strong leadership and mentor junior staff while you help support the senior team at a time of great change. You will be a highly visible leader and be experienced as a professional role model. In working in a progressively changing environment you will promote the Trusts values and be committed to high standards of service delivery alongside helping to achieve Trust and national standards and targets. The post is permanent & 34.5 hours (0.92 WTE).
Main duties of the job Responsibilities for establishing and maintaining communication and relationship both internally and externally.
Establish and maintain effective communication and foster good working relationships with all multidisciplinary teams, both internal and external.
Provide and receive complex and / or sensitive information from patients and staff. For example, breaking bad news to patients, giving complex information about procedures and their outcomes, dealing with performance issues, holding staff meetings. Able to support and talk to distressed patients, visitors, and staff members.
Responsible for cascading information to ward staff and chairing staff meetings from which minutes are provided.
Make use of electronic internal / external mail and Internet systems as appropriate and necessary.
Deal effectively with comments, complaints, or incidents that affect staff and users of the ward in accordance with complaints, risk management, or human resources procedures.
Bring to the attention of the Senior Sister/Charge any factors which may adversely affect patient care or service provision.
Report all serious incidents to the appropriate Manager / Director within 24 hours; these include Never Events, serious falls, and grade 3 or 4 pressure ulcers.
About us Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.
Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move forward.
Guided by our Values:
Being open and honest.
Ensuring people feel cared for.
Showing respect to everyone.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job responsibilities Job Purpose:
To act as team leader for clinical staff.
To be responsible for clinical and non-clinical management of a ward area in the absence of the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse.
Key Duties:
Operational Responsibilities
Responsibilities for establishing and maintaining communication and relationship both internally and externally.
Establish and maintain effective communication and foster good working relationships with all multidisciplinary teams, both internal and external.
Provide and receive complex and / or sensitive information from patients and staff. For example, breaking bad news to patients, giving complex information about procedures and their outcomes, dealing with performance issues, holding staff meetings. Able to support and talk to distressed patients, visitors, and staff members.
Responsible for cascading information to ward staff and chairing staff meetings from which minutes are provided.
Make use of electronic internal / external mail and Internet systems as appropriate and necessary.
Deal effectively with comments, complaints, or incidents that affect staff and users of the ward in accordance with complaints, risk management, or human resources procedures.
Bring to the attention of the Senior Sister/Charge any factors which may adversely affect patient care or service provision.
Report all serious incidents to the appropriate Manager / Director within 24 hours; these include Never Events, serious falls, and grade 3 or 4 pressure ulcers.
Knowledge Skills & Experience (Also See Person Specification)
Be knowledgeable about the specific care requirements of patients who may be admitted to the area.
Be knowledgeable about current infection control procedures and policies and ensure all staff and visitors adhere to these at all times.
Be knowledgeable about the risks of infection and take responsibility for minimising cross infection within the clinical environment, assist in giving information and placing patients appropriately.
Be knowledgeable about all aspects of diabetes care.
Ensure that patient care is evidence based and that the patient journey is streamlined. Develop and implement patient pathways as directed.
Use a wide range of knowledge in determining at the time of assessment or admission, the most appropriate and safe patient pathway.
Identify, assess, and act accordingly at any point on the pathway including discharge when patients are no longer meeting the agreed appropriate and safe patient pathway.
Assess and act upon potential problems or issues to ensure a safe, effective environment for staff, patients, and visitors.
Identify, analyse, and act upon staff situations when there is conflict and / or deviation from Trust or local policies and procedures.
Identify, analyse, action and discuss with Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse as appropriate any change management issues that arise.
Planning and organisational skills
Assist in planning of duty rotas or alter planned rotas to ensure maximum service delivery, standards of patient care and human, and resource management. Use e-rostering as it becomes available.
Assist Senior Sister / Charge Nurse by utilising available resources to ensure safe and effective patient care e.g. periods of unplanned staff absence and / or equipment failure.
Be aware of Trust financial position and target objectives and ensure that ward area is as effective as possible in meeting these objectives.
Work with the multi-disciplinary team to streamline care and shorten patient length of stay.
Work with the multi-disciplinary team towards protocol led discharge for suitable patients.
Participate in Directorate / Departmental Sisters meetings.
Be involved in practice development and patient experience issues.
Responsibilities For Patient Care Therapy & Treatment
Oversee set patient care programmes in accordance with agreed policies, using expert nursing experience and skills.
Ensure that safe and effective nursing care is delivered, this to be in accordance with Trust policies and best practice guidelines, also Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Codes of Practice and guidelines.
Act as a role model when carrying out and demonstrating nursing care and procedures.
Ensure all staff carry out all appropriate general risk assessments within 24 hours of admission document and plan care accordingly e.g. manual handling, pressure risks, slips trips and falls, nutrition.
Ensure clinical staff assess the conditions of patients within the clinical area, ensuring that signs and symptoms are acted upon accordingly and in a timely fashion.
Ensure clinical area staff effectively manage the admission, transfer, and discharge of patients while incorporating other relevant Trust policies, for example Patients Property.
Ensure clinical area staff carry out appropriate nutritional risk assessments and follow current policies as indicated e.g. red tray policy, protected mealtimes.
Ensure clinical area staff participate in delivery of meals to patients and take responsibility for monitoring and recording dietary and fluid intake for a group of patients.
Undertake nurse led services which will include autonomous nurse led discharge within defined protocols where appropriate.
Supervision of, and participation in the discharge planning system and process and deal with specialty or complex plans of care by liaison with community nursing services and other agencies.
Work with patients, carers / relatives, nursing and other healthcare professionals in secondary care to promote timely discharge, through appropriate discharge planning.
Provide telephone advice to patients and / or their carers as appropriate.
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