Junior Sister / Charge Nurse

Barts Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Nurse Lead to provide leadership in delivering high-quality, individualized care to children and families. The role involves ensuring standards of care are met, mentoring staff, and adapting to the diverse needs of patients while promoting a safe and compassionate environment. Candidates must be registered children's nurses with relevant experience and possess strong communication and organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years experience at band 6 level in acute paediatric setting.
• Knowledge in Safeguarding Children and current NHS strategy.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to nursing team ensuring high standard of family-centred care.
• Set and maintain high standards of clinically effective nursing care.
• Ensure child and family-centered approach in inpatient areas.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Effective interpersonal skills

Excellent organisational skills

Ability to deal with difficult situations

Displays professional integrity

Adaptable and able to deal with changing workloads

Education

RSCN / RN Child with current registration

Educated to degree level or working towards it

Preparation for mentorship course or equivalent

Job description

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To provide clinical leadership to a designated nursing team, ensuring the delivery of the highest standard of individualised family-centred care to children and their families in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team. Ensure that evidence-based practice is always performed, taking responsibility for updating own knowledge and skills in line with Trust policies and procedures and NMC Code.

Main duties of the job

1. Ensures the process of nursing is developed to meet the individual needs of each patient, providing well documented assessment, care planning and evaluation.
2. Responsible for setting, providing, and maintaining high standards of clinically effective nursing care at all times.

3. Always provide leadership and management to the staff team ensuring effective use of human resources on the ward to ensure safe and efficient service delivery

4. Ensure that a child and family-centered approach to care is provided in inpatient areas, which takes account of children’s individual medical, psychological, emotional, and social needs.

Working for our organisation

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Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• RSCN / RN Child with current registration
• Preparation for mentorship course or equivalent
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Knowledge of current and emerging NHS strategy and policy
• Knowledge and experience in Safeguarding Children
• Educated to degree level or working towards it

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years experience at band 6 level within an acute paediatric setting
• Orthopaedic surgical experience

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills with people on complex matters/issues
• Ability to deal with difficult situations
• Excellent organisational skills
• Displays professional integrity and credibility
• Adaptable and able to deal with changing workloads

Personal and People Development

• Positive attitude and ability to work under pressure
• Take responsibility for own learning
• Responsible for own Individual performance Review

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Created on 29/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom