Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Ward 2b Paediatric Medical Day Unit - RVI
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (from date of appointment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-25-016
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/07/2025
Employer heading
Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse
Band 7
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
Are you a passionate and experienced children’s nurse with a specialist interest in a medical investigation day unit? We are seeking a highly motivated Band 7 Sister/ Charge Nurse to lead and coordinate care within our regional medical day-case unit.
This is a unique opportunity to take on a senior clinical leadership role in a well-established multidisciplinary team, caring for children with a wide variety of conditions, endocrine, metabolic, respiratory, non-oncology haematology, oncology, renal, rheumatology and gastroenterology on a day case basis. This is a nurse led unit for children receiving complex and innovative therapies.
The Senior Sister / Charge Nurse have 24-hour accountability, including line managing, for their ward / department.
They must deliver quality nursing care by ensuring appropriate systems and processes are in place to ensure the continuity of safe and effective care at all times.
- Interview date: Thursday 24 July 2025
- 37 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
Demonstrate effective communication and provide a compassionate leadership approach, maintaining clinical expertise, management responsibilities and strategic oversight of the medical day unit within GNCH.
Act as a guardian for professional accountability and standards, ensuring professional practices in line with the requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and the Trust.
Ensure environmental standards and cleanliness are maintained in line with national and Trust Standards in the ward/department.
Effectively manage the ward/department nursing resource.
Provide evidence based care for all children and participate, as required, in advancing care with research.
Support and contribute to the development of patient care and nursing practice within the Directorate, contributing to Trust projects where required.
Ensure junior staff and students have appropriate supervision and support and are appropriately assessed.
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The Senior Sister / Charge Nurse / Senior ODP has 24 hour accountability, including line managing, for their Theatre / Department. They must deliver quality care by ensuring appropriate systems and processes are in place to ensure the continuity of safe and effective care at all times.
Deputises for Matron as required / appropriate
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of achievement in current post and on-going professional development
- Knowledge and understanding of current relevant NHS policy context
Desirable criteria
- Specialist course in area of practice
SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Have developed skills in professional accountability in a leadership role
- Good IT skills
- Intravenous drug administration
- Venepuncture and intravenous cannulation
- Scrub skills relevant to speciality / anaesthetic skills appropriate to speciality
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of leading a nursing team at SR/CN level or equivalent
- Relevant specialist qualification / experience
- Extensive clinical practice or specialist qualification in relevant specialty
- Experience of adult / child safeguarding
- Experience of managing and leading nursing / clinical teams
- Audit / research experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of developing a nursing team at SR/CN level
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch) / Registered Operating Department Practitioner
- Current NMC / HCPC registration
- Degree level knowledge or working towards completion (i.e. on pathway)
- Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) / Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) requirements for mentorship if relevant to role
Desirable criteria
- Master’s degree
- Leadership / management qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Kirstine Stait
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2829314
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