Band 6 Night Sister Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Evasion-design.com; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a Band 6 Senior Night Sister / Senior Charge Nurse, where you will lead night teams in delivering exceptional patient care. This role is crucial for maintaining high standards during night shifts, providing guidance to junior staff, and enhancing patient safety. You will be a key figure in governance and service improvement, ensuring a supportive environment for both patients and staff. If you are passionate about making a difference in community healthcare, this is the perfect opportunity for you to shine and contribute to a healthier community.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and governance skills in a healthcare setting.
• Experience in managing clinical teams and ensuring patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support night teams, ensuring high standards of care.
• Oversee staffing levels and manage complaints/incidents effectively.

Skills

Leadership

Patient Safety

Clinical Support

Resource Management

Service Improvement

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Job description

Band 6 Senior Night Sister / Senior Charge Nurse

An Exciting Opportunity to Lead and Support Our Night Teams.

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 Senior Night Sister / Senior Charge Nurse to join our dedicated team at Moseley Hall Hospital. This role is vital in providing strong leadership, professional support, and ensuring high standards of care during night shifts. While primarily a night-shift role, attendance at some daytime training sessions will be required. If you have the skills, drive, and dedication to make a difference, we would love to hear from you! Join us and play a key role in our mission to deliver exceptional care throughout the night.

About the Role:

As a Senior Night Sister / Charge Nurse, you will be a visible, accessible, and authoritative presence across our clinical areas. Patients, families, and staff will look to you for leadership, advice, and support.

Your key responsibilities will include:

1. Leadership and Governance – Ensuring professional standards, accountability, and timely management of complaints/incidents.
2. Safe Staffing and Workforce Planning – Overseeing resource management, ensuring safe staffing levels in line with SOPs.
3. Patient Safety and Experience – Enhancing care quality and working to reduce health inequalities.
4. Supporting Junior Staff – Providing guidance on clinical queries and complex patient caseloads.
5. Performance and Operations – Overseeing service continuity, managing digital and IT issues during system downtimes.
6. Service Improvement and Transformation – Leading initiatives to improve care delivery and patient outcomes.
7. Out-of-Hours Senior Support – Being physically present at Moseley Hall Hospital and available via telephone to support West Heath Hospital (WHH), Community Unit 27 (CU27), Perry Trees Centre (PTC), and Anne Marie Howes Centre (AMH).

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.

For further details on the main responsibilities and job description, please see the attached JD/PS Document.

This advert closes on Friday 28 Mar 2025.