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Job summary

Main area
Outpatients
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
214-CSTO-7273267
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Newark Hospital
Town
Newark
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/07/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job overview

🌟 Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse – Be the Change Across Our Three Sites! 

Are you a dynamic and forward-thinking nurse ready to take the next step in your leadership journey? We’re on the lookout for an enthusiastic Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse to help shape the future of our Outpatients and Phlebotomy departments as we embark on an exciting transformation across three sites.

This is more than just a job — it’s your opportunity to:

✅ Lead with purpose – Drive service improvements and inspire your team to deliver outstanding patient care.
✅ Make a real impact – Play a key role in enhancing the patient journey and improving operational excellence.
✅ Grow your career – Thrive in a supportive, innovative environment that values your ideas and leadership.
✅ Work flexibly – Adapt to the needs of our diverse patient community while enjoying variety in your day-to-day.

We’re looking for someone with the vision to lead change, the skills to manage clinics smoothly, and the passion to empower others. If you’re ready to bring energy, creativity, and compassion to a role that truly matters — we want to hear from you!

Apply now and help us transform care for the better!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

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.

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

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication and time management skills
  • Enthusiastic, receptive.
  • Ability to work under fluctuating workloads
  • Ability to change, manage and motivate others.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in education and professional development.
  • Outpatients experience

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • First level Registered Nurse
  • Recognised teaching qualification
  • Additional Professional /management qualifications.
  • Demonstration of on-going Professional development

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • Mandatory update
Desirable criteria
  • HR training
  • Leadership programme
  • Appraisal training
  • Sickness management

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Flexible with diversity of role
  • Experience of leading and managing staff
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in Outpatients

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work across all Trust sites
  • Continued professional development
  • Demonstrate professionalism and patient advocacy
  • Ability to work flexibly within working hours of department.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPathway to excellenceCare quality commission - GoodCarer Friendly Employer 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare4NottsTime to changeFair Train Silver StandardStep into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkArmed Forces Covenant

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Natalie Taylor
Job title
Department Sister
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623622515
Additional information

For further information or an informal discussion about this position please contact:

Natalie Taylor - outpatient and phlebotomy sister- [email protected] - ext 5844/6624

Lauren Brown - Matron - [email protected]

Robyn. [email protected]

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