Assessment Sister/Charge Nurse

Transformation Unit; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Sheffield is seeking an Assessment Sister/Charge Nurse (NHS AfC Band 6) as part of a strategic transformation in cancer services. The post is in Weston Park Cancer Centre assessment service, including telephone triage and direct patient admission.

You will support the phone triage nurses, supervise the nursing team, and provide leadership at night with the hospital at night team. There are three posts available.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration.
• Post-registration oncology qualification or equivalent.
• Completed PEAP programme for practice supervisors or equivalent.
• Core SACT competences and IV drug administration, phlebotomy, cannulation, CVADs.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical assessments for cancer patients admitted non-electively.
• Order investigations and initiate treatments within defined competence.
• Provide site management, leadership and night support.
• Support telephone triage nurses and manage complex calls.
• Collaborate with senior clinicians and the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Telephone triage

Leadership

Education of others

Patient care

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Oncology qualification

PEAP programme for practice supervisors

Job description

Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Weston Park Hospital Town Sheffield Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pa/pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 27/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 06/11/2026

Assessment Sister/Charge Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

An exciting employment opportunity has arisen as part of a strategic transformation in cancer services.

The assessment sister/charge nurse will work in the Weston Park Cancer Centre assessment service, including telephone triage and advice and directly admit patients to Weston Park.

They will provide support to the phone triage nurses on a day to day basis and manage complex calls.

There are 3 posts on this vacancy.

Main duties of the job

The assessment sister/charge nurse will undertake clinical assessments for cancer patients who attend Weston Park as non-elective admissions, order and carry out investigations and initiate treatments within defined competence and protocols in collaboration with the senior clinicians and multi-professional team.

They will provide site management, leadership and clinical support to the nursing team within Weston Park at night in conjunction with the hospital at night team and duty matron.

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (valid NMC)
• Post registration study and Qualification eg oncology, symptom managment
• To have completed the national PEAP programme for practice supervisors or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998 or equivalent

Further training

• Core and relevant SACT competences
• Competent in IV drug administration, phlebotomy, cannulation, CVADs
• Ability to record ECG

Experience

• Experience of caring for patients with cancer and those receiving cancer treatment
• Evidence of leadership
• Experience of providing telephone advice and/or triage services
• Able to mange highly complex or sensitive situations with patients, relatives and staff
• Ability to participate in education of others
• Evidence of mulit-disciplinary team working
• Highly motivated, enthusiastic team player

Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here .

The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.