Emergency Department Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

NHS; Burton upon Trent; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust in England is looking for a Senior Sister/Charge Nurse for the Emergency Department. This role requires a candidate with significant clinical leadership experience and a passion for nursing excellence. Responsibilities include managing the nursing team and ensuring optimal patient care. The position offers development opportunities and various employee benefits, aiming to provide exceptional health services to the community.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience in Emergency Department at Registered Nurse level.
• Experience in mentoring and developing nursing staff.
• Post registration leadership qualification required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the nursing team in the Emergency Department.
• Be accountable for all delegated nursing care within the clinical environment.
• Ensure high-quality, effective, and compassionate patient care.

Skills

Clinical nursing leadership

Risk assessment

Workload management

Education

NMC Registration

Degree or relevant experience

ALS Certification

APLS Certification

Job description

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Emergency Department Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

The closing date is 05 January 2026

To be a Senior Sister/Charge Nurse for the Emergency Department (ED) working in partnership with the Matron, to manage and provide leadership to the nursing team in the provision of effective clinical and operational leadership across the ED.

To work collaboratively with the Lead Clinician and ED Manager, as well as the wider ED Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), to continuously improve and develop the ED.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Sister/Charge Nurse takes overall responsibility and is accountable for all delegated nursing care within the clinical environment. They provide nursing leadership and are accountable for patient, public and staff experience. They will lead, offer expert clinical advice and manage services to ensure the delivery of high quality, effective, and compassionate nursing care. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours and is essential they can provide both clinical care to patients.

Closing date of applications: 05 January 2026

Interview date: 19 January 2026

This position is offered as a secondment. Accordingly, you are required to consult with your manager and obtain approval prior to submitting your application.

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Job responsibilities

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Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).

Person Specification

Education, Training & Qualifications

• NMC Registration
• Degree or relevant experience
• Experience in the Emergency Department setting at Registered Nurse level
• ALS
• APLS

Experience & Knowledge

• Minimum of 3 years band 6 experience
• Mentoring and developing staff
• Minimum of 5 years ED experience
• Experience working with paediatrics
• Post reg leadership qualification
• Evidence of major incident training completion

Skills & Ability

• Has overall responsibility and is accountable for all delegated nursing care within the clinical environment
• Able to assess associated risks and takes appropriate action
• Manages the clinical workload, prioritising and re-prioritising
• Works across division during unit cover and deputising for matron

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust