Junior Sister / Charge Nurse | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to join their palliative care department. This role requires demonstrable leadership experience and advanced communication skills. The nurse will support a team, provide clinical guidance, and ensure high standards of patient care. Applicants should be prepared to work long days, nights, and weekends. The application deadline is September 22, 2025.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of leading and contributing to the development of an inpatient team.
• Caring and empathetic attitude with advanced communication skills.
• Ability to be a positive role model to junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Support Senior Sister in managing the unit and delivering patient care.
• Provide clinical knowledge and advice to the team.
• Supervise junior staff and manage clinical workloads.
• Act as a role model for infection prevention and control policies.
• Maintain accurate patient care records.
• Work includes long days, nights, and weekends.

Skills

Leadership experience

Empathy

Advanced communication skills

Job description

Overview

There will be one permanent and one secondment position available for this role. Part of this position is being offered as a secondment. Accordingly, you are required to consult with your manager and obtain approval prior to submitting your application.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within a forward thinking palliative medicine department as a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse on the Nightingale Macmillan Unit. The area has 21 beds, with the flexibility to increase to 24 beds in times of pressure to support the trust, and looks after patients nearing the end of their lives.

Role

We are looking for an individual who has demonstrable experience of leading and contributing to the development of an inpatient team and who is committed to delivering high standards of holistic care, and must have a caring and empathetic attitude. The individual must be a positive role model to the junior staff and be able to demonstrate their ability to have advanced communication skills. Please note you will be required to work both long days, nights and weekends. If you feel this is the role for you please get in touch to have an informal discussion.

Responsibilities

• To support the Senior Sister in the day-to-day management of the unit and to ensure the delivery of patient-centred, clinically effective holistic care is provided in a safe and caring environment.
• Provide specific clinical knowledge and advice to the multi-professional team and take into account all aspects of Clinical Governance; promote and develop the use of evidence-based practice to improve patient care outcomes.
• Provide supervision of the delivery of care by junior staff, allocate clinical workload as required, respond to changing clinical situations, and provide necessary advice and support to maintain high standards of patient care.
• Act as a role model at all times and ensure that all team members and visitors give high priority to infection prevention and control policies and procedures to maintain a safe clinical environment.
• Provide guidance and support to junior staff and comply with the NMC standards for mentors.
• Maintain accurate, legible and timely records of patient care using the current patient recording system.
• Work will include long days, nights and weekends as part of the role.

Qualifications and requirements

• Demonstrable experience of leading and contributing to the development of an inpatient team.
• Caring and empathetic attitude with advanced communication skills.
• Ability to be a positive role model to junior staff.

Additional information

Closing date of applications: 22 September 2025
Interview date: 06 October 2025

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.

Benefits

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&E 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.

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This advert closes on Monday 22 Sep 2025