Paediatric Junior Sister/Charge Nurse | Barts Health NHS Trust

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

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in London seeks experienced children’s nurses with intensive care skills to provide clinical care for critically ill children in a dynamic environment. Responsibilities include leading nursing teams, teaching junior staff, and ensuring high-quality care in partnership with families. A commitment to professional practice and a passion for delivering excellent patient safety are essential. This role offers the chance to develop managerial skills and contribute to a caring, inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in Paediatric Intensive Care and completed intensive care training.
• Demonstrated commitment to professional practice and high-quality holistic care.
• Ability to provide clinical leadership and work in partnership with children and families.

Responsibilities

• Clinical care of critically ill children.
• Opportunity to develop managerial skills.
• Deliver high standard individualised family centered care.

Skills

Intensive care skills

Experience with critically ill children

Teaching junior staff

Teamwork

Self-motivation

Job description

Overview

The Paediatric Critical Care Unit is an indispensable part of the Childrens service and strategy, ensuring that local children can be treated and cared for in their local hospital. It is also a tertiary referral centre accepting admissions from north east London and further afield to support the increasing demand for Paediatric critical care.

It is our aim to increase our outstanding, dynamic team by recruiting experienced, highly motivated children’s nurses with intensive care skills, who have experience of caring for critically ill children.

Role and responsibilities

• As a Band 6, you will need to have previous experience of working within Paediatric Intensive Care and to have completed your intensive care training. Your main responsibility will be the clinical care of critically ill children; whilst allowing you the opportunity to share your knowledge, experience and skills. This position will also give you the chance to develop your managerial skills.
• You will need to thrive on working in a dynamic environment; willing to teach junior staff; demonstrate self-motivation and work well in a team. You should demonstrate a commitment to your own professional practice, as well as delivering high quality holistic care, with an emphasis on working in partnership with the children and their families.
• 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 interdisciplinary team.

About Barts Health and values

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.

Application and closing

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

This advert closes on Friday 10 Oct 2025