Job summary
- Main area
- Intensive care unit
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 162-7107-KK
- Employer
- Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- QH Jubilee ITU
- Town
- Romford
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Band 7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, Critical Care
Band 7
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity for Band 7 Senior sister/charge nurse post has arisen in critical care at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust to join our 57 bedded Critical Care service based across two sites which are Queens Hospital and King George. We are looking for an experienced critical care nurse to provide professional leadership, educational support and advice to our nursing workforce, drive developments in nursing practice to improve patient care and experience, and to facilitate education and training for registered and non-registered nursing staff in our existing highly motivated teams. The post holder will also be a line manager for a small team to facilitate sickness management, anuual leave requirements, professional development with appraisals and deputising for the deputy matron in any relevent areas for your team.
We are looking for enthusiastic experienced nurses with a passion for delivering high quality care in partnership with patients and their relatives, who is able to guide and lead others to also work with these standards in a permanent role.
You will be required to provide training and support to new staff members, and guiding individuals who require performance related assistance. You must be able to act as a role model, provide teaching and leadership support to the nursing team in the clinical area and work collaboratively within our multi-disciplinary team to demonstrate advanced clinical specialist skills in order to provide the highest standard of individualised evidence based patient centred care while supervising the work of others (in line with local and national standards), and be responsible for supporting changes in nursing practice, based on evidence, research, audit findings and best practice for ongoing quality improvement in Critical care services. As a senior member of staff you will be expected to deputise in the deputy matrons absence by leading by example, ensuring the safety of the unit, escalation in the correct proceedings, audit compliance, bed coordinating and workforce management
Main duties of the job
• Co-ordinates patient care within Critical Care.
• Promote excellence in practice utilising the resources available cost effectively.
• Promotes & expedites quality issues relevant to the service.
• Act as a role model & provide specialist advice.
• Facilitate the professional development of the team.
• Promote good communication within the multidisciplinary team
• Supports the matron.
• Liaises with ward to ensure staffing & skill mix are adequate.
• Demonstrates cost effective resource management.
• Participate in audit data collection
• Develop team ensuring team members have excellent knowledge and guidance to deliver excellent patient care
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, was named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal in 2024.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Adeyemi Kaka, Re-cruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5162. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Nurse with active registration
- Intensive Care Course
- Neuro ITU course or equivalent Neuro Course
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate the ability to assess, plan and manage care for individual patients
Desirable criteria
- Ability to manage a specified area within the department e.g. ITU or HDU
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Committed to professional and personal development
Experience / Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit and Previous experience working within clinical trials
- Evidence of leadership in clinical practice
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ruth Dando
- Job title
- Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01708 435000
- Additional information
Ext: 6422
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