Junior Sister / Charge Nurse

NHS; Brighton; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust seeks a Junior Sister / Charge Nurse in Brighton to provide high-quality, compassionate care while leading a team of nurses. The role involves ensuring patient safety, effective communication, and adherence to NHS standards, along with professional development opportunities within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Wellbeing programme for staff

Supportive learning environment

Qualifications

• Acute surgical experience is essential.
• Training on IV Drug Administration, Venepuncture, and Cannulation required.
• Knowledge of Band 6 role and accountability essential.

Responsibilities

• Support the ward manager in clinical leadership and patient safety.
• Manage a small team of nurses, mentoring, and assessing skills.
• Ensure effective shift handovers and multidisciplinary communication.

Skills

Acute surgical experience

Basic computer skills

Excellent management skills

Ability to use initiative

Evidence of training in equality and diversity

Education

Care of the acutely ill adult course

Care of the acutely ill module

Pain management

Tools

NHS IT systems/applications

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)

Junior Sister / Charge Nurse

The closing date is 14 July 2025

The post holder will be responsible and accountable for the professional evidence based nursing care delivered to patients. Ensuring the highest quality, effective and compassionate care is received by the patients and their families / carers whilst on the ward. Excellent, holistic and individualised nursing care will be delivered through assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and National policies, procedures, values and behaviours. To support the ward manager in providing effective clinical leadership that ensures patient safety at all times together with high quality patient care. Promoting a supportive learning environment in which to supervise and mentor Staff Nurses, student nurses and Health Care Assistants. The post holder will act as an advocate whilst demonstrating effective communication and listening skills.

Main duties of the job

To support the ward manager in providing effective clinical leadership that ensures patient safety at all times together with high quality patient care.

To assist the ward Manager in the effective management of prevention and control of infection within the ward area.

You will be able to communicate effectively both within the department and to external partners.

To manage a small team of nurses and be responsible for mentoring and assessing their skills and be responsible for their annual appraisals.

To manage to work within allocated resources and assist in the management of the budget.

To act as role model and expert practitioner.

To undertake delegated responsibility in the absence of the ward manager.

To manage the day to day activity with the ward to allow flow through the ward in a timely manner to reduce the LOS and ensure that quality of care is maintained throughout the 24 hour period

Participates in ensuring effective multidisaplinary communication links within the digestive diseases ward and department and in areas within the trust.

To communicate and discuss with senior members of staff @ awaydays and meetings.

To adhere to NMC guidelines on documentation accountability and responsibility for record keeping.

About us

At UHSussex (UHSx), diversity is our strength, & we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First. Your uniqueness & experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, & can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) & a Veteran Aware Trust.

We treat our patients & staff with the same compassion & empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above & beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our candidate information pack & wellbeing programme,for staff which is extensive & designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work life balance - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.

As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching & training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us & throughout your career we will help you to grow & develop.We hope that in choosing UHSx you are choosing a long & happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make & feel valued for all that you do.

We look forward to receiving your application & the start of your journey with UHSx.

Job responsibilities

Responsible for effective shift handovers ensuring relevant detail is communicated and identifies and challenges any unprofessional or subjective comments made about patients.

Participates in ward rounds showing knowledge of the up to date situation and condition of the patients, with the ability to be able to present this concisely in an appropriate manner encouraging one stop ward rounds.

Responsible for the discharge of patients from the ward and to manage complex patient case conferences which may involve end of life care.

Support families and carers to understand complicated medical conditions.

Recognize poor standards of care amongst the MDT and be able to highlight these to the appropriate personnel at an appropriate time.

To maintain correct standards of uniform and personal appearance, as indicated in the Dress Code & Uniform Policy.

Report / action any accidents, incidents or undue occurrences reported or witnessed.

Take an active role in the management of risks, in line with Trust and Directorate policy

Ensure your role has a positive influence on key performance indicators.

Seek consistently to improve nursing practice in line with evidence, recent best practice innovations and new developments.

Proactively manage ward level complaints and report to senior staff so that they can be dealt with according to Trust Policy.

Maintain flexibility with staff rosters in order to provide cover with the optimum skill mix, making best use of available resources.

Deal with patient/relative complaints proactively.

Person Specification

Experience

• Acute surgical experience is essential

Qualifications

• Care of the acutely Ill adult course
• pain management

Qualifications

• care of the acutely ill module

Skills

• Basic computer skills
• Knowledge of Band 6 role Understanding of Accountability and Responsibilities
• Ability to use initiative Ability to calculate complex drug dosage IV Drug Administration, Venepuncture and Cannulation
• Excellent management, leadership and organisational skills
• Ability to delegate and prioritise
• Ability to deal with challenging behaviour
• Evidence of training and awareness in equality and diversity
• Advanced computer skills. Knowledge and experience of NHS IT systems/applications

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

• Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)

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 Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum pro rata