Ward Sister/Charge Nurse

Ward Sister/Charge Nurse

The closing date is 22 February 2026

Are you a dynamic and compassionate senior nurse looking for your next leadership challenge?

We're excited to invite an inspiring Sister/Charge Nurse to lead our high-performing team within our busy 24-bedded Respiratory Support Unit/Acute Ward.

In this pivotal role, you will provide strong clinical leadership and expert ward management, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, and truly patient-centred care. You will champion excellence, nurture your team, and help shape a supportive, empowering environment where both patients and staff can thrive.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to investing in our people. You'll benefit from ongoing professional development, a wide range of training opportunities, and a workplace culture built on compassion, respect, and continuous improvement. This is an excellent opportunity to make a real impact-both on patient care and on the future of our service.

Main duties of the job

• Leadership & management of the ward & team
• Clinical Responsibilities - Act as a clinical expert in respiratory medicine
• Staff training & Development - Facilitate professional development of staff, promote continuing education
• Governance & quality assurance - Investigations, complaints, policy & procedures, audit & monitor clinical standards
• Patient and family liaison
• Resource & budgetary management.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.

Person Specification Knowledge Requirements

• Good communication skills with clear written and oral skills.

Qualifications/Academic/Craft/Professional

• Degree in Nursing or equivalent clinical professional qualification
• Registered clinical professional
• Qualification in teaching and assessing or equivalent
• Working towards Masters qualification or equivalent

Further Training

• Evidence of personal and professional development in clinical practice/ management
• Diploma in management or relevant subject or willingness to undertake

Experience

• Significant post registration experience, with experience in a senior position within the speciality
• Experience of operating and communicating effectively with clinicians and Multi-disciplinary
• Experience of working with external agencies and influencing internal change
• Experience of initiating, conducting and evaluating risk assessments and investigations
• Experience of leading and managing staff
• Experience of working towards Care Quality
• Commission and NHS Resolution standards
• Complaints Management
• Experience of service improvement methodologies

Contractual Requirements

• Ability to work flexibly
• Professional Registration (e.g. NMC, HCPC)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust