Junior Charge Nurse/ Sister

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Camberley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse for their G3 stroke unit in Frimley Park Hospital. This role involves clinical leadership, supporting junior staff, and contributing to patient care excellence within a dynamic team. Ideal candidates will have post-registration experience and a passion for stroke recovery.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• NMC registration required.
• Experience working as a Band 5 in a stroke setting.
• Wide range of clinical skills including venepuncture and drug administration.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate clinical leadership and quality improvements.
• Support junior colleagues and manage staffing issues.
• Ensure delivery of safe and effective care.

Skills

Clinical skills

Interpersonal skills

Management of stressful situations

Education

NMC registration

Teaching and assessing course

Tools

Basic IT Skills

Job description

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Job Overview

Junior Sister / Charge Nurse – G3 Ward, Frimley Park Hospital

G3 is a dynamic 28-bedded stroke unit at Frimley Park Hospital, comprising 12 Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) beds and 16 Stroke Rehabilitation beds. We deliver high-quality, specialist care to patients at various stages of their stroke recovery journey.

Job Overview

Junior Sister / Charge Nurse – G3 Ward, Frimley Park Hospital

G3 is a dynamic 28-bedded stroke unit at Frimley Park Hospital, comprising 12 Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) beds and 16 Stroke Rehabilitation beds. We deliver high-quality, specialist care to patients at various stages of their stroke recovery journey.

Our Dedicated Team Includes

24 registered nurses

22 care assistants

10 Band 6 Junior Sisters/Charge Nurses

2 Ward Managers

A Clinical Practice Educator

2 Ward Clerks

A Stroke Pathway Coordinator

As a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse, you will work in close partnership with the Senior Sister, Matron, and the wider multidisciplinary team. You will play a key leadership role in maintaining clinical excellence, supporting staff development, and ensuring the delivery of safe, compassionate, and effective care to our patients.

This is a rewarding opportunity to lead within a supportive and forward-thinking stroke service, where your skills and leadership will contribute directly to improving patient outcomes.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to demonstrate clinical leadership and drive quality improvement changes in the clinical setting.

You will support junior colleagues in their professional development and with appropriate training you will support the senior sister with management of staff sickness, appraisals ,staffing issues, incident and complaint management etc.

We can offer you a range of management and leadership development opportunities to support you in this role. as well as support from a dedicated clinical practice educator who provides support to all our staff and can focus on any specific training requirements you may have.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC registration
• Teaching and assessing course or equivalent mentorship preparation course
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working as a Band 5 in a stroke setting
• Extensive post registration experience
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Wide range of clinical skills - venepuncture, cannulation, drug administration, catheterisation, ECG
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult/stressful situations effectively
• Basic keyboard skills. Basic use of IT packages (word, excel, powerpoint)
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Teaching and training skills
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• To be able to work both day and night shifts
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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