Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

UHDB; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Job summary

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Part-time Band 7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse for the Parkinson's and Rehabilitation Medicine team at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital. The role is 23.5 hours per week and involves working with a multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, high-quality outpatient care.

You will lead nursing practice, manage daily operations, and drive improvement initiatives while upholding our values of compassion, openness and

Qualifications

• Must hold current NMC registration and demonstrate post-registration clinical experience.
• Experience as Band 6 or Band 7 previously and ability to lead a team.
• Mentoring and Practice Assessor experience in prior roles.

Responsibilities

• Take overall nursing responsibility for the day-to-day outpatient environment.
• Drive service development and quality improvement while promoting patient safety.
• Lead a diverse nursing team and act as a role model with high professional standards.
• Coordinate staffing across Parkinson's, Rehabilitation Medicine and Spasticity clinics.
• Provide monthly service reports and contribute to audits and IPC management.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

NMC registration

Teaching qualification

Job description

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.

With over 14,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme

To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities. This commitment is to guarantee an interview for any candidate that has disclosed a disability under the Equality Act 2010 and who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

if you are blind or visually impaired and require application material in an alternative format- such as Braille, large print, audio or accessible electronic formats oryou require support/adjustments with your application please contact the recruitment team on 01332 788466

The Trust is proud to be a signatory of the Care Leavers Covenant and is committed to supporting care-experienced people into employment.

Applicants who identify as a care leaver and who meet the essential criteria for the role, as detailed in the person specification, will be guaranteed an interview.

Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for;

Job overview

An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen in the Parkinson's and Rehabilitation Medicine team within the Specialist Rehabilitation outpatient clinic for a part-time permanent Band 7 Senior Sister / Charge Nurse at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital. The previous post holder is retiring after many years working in this service.

The role is 23.5 hrs a week

This role will be workingwith the wider Multidisciplinary team.

The Parkinson's service is an international centre of excellence which is 1 of only 2 in the UK.

You will work with the nurse team and will require strong leadership and communication skills, and the ability to manage and maintain high standards and provide excellent care for our patients.

We are looking for a dynamic, proactive, highly motivated, passionate and resilient individual to become part of the Senior Team. In addition to these attributes, we expect the individual to support the vision of our trust to deliver safe care compassionately.

Applicants must hold a current NMC registration and have demonstrable post registration experience with Band 6 experience in Nursing. The applicant must be able to demonstrate their leadership experience. Parkinson's, rehabilitation medicine experience is desirable but not essential.

An informal visit is strongly advisable to see what we do.

Closing date of applications: 3 November 2026

Interview date: 17 November 2026

Main duties of the job

The candidate should demonstrate excellent communication skills, be dynamic and strive for excellence in all aspects of the role. They also need to demonstrate that they are supportive and are able to manage the daily challenges of being a leader in a diverse department. They will need to act as a role model and maintain and uphold high standards of professional behaviour.

The successful applicant will take overall nursing responsibility for the day-to-day outpatient environment. They will ensure that high standards of nursing care is provided and drive forward both service development and quality improvement. They will also be ensuring we promote patient safety and a positive patient experience.

You will:

• Support the provision of holistic assessment and review of patients with Parkinson's disease
• Coordinate the staffing of Parkinsons, Rehabilitation Medicine and Spasticity clinics.
• support management of Parkinson's waiting lists.
• Provide monthly service reports, collect and submit audit data .
• Manage and monitor IPC for the department.
• Attend MDT meetings and contribute to MDT service development

We believe that all exceptional Nurses have something extra to offer our patients beyond their training and professional registration, from a kind word or a helping hand to providing a positive outlook or going the extra mile. So, at our Trust, we want to work with people who really share our values in continuously improving our patient experience.

Working for our organisation

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.

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&Es 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

UHDB is committed to fair and transparent recruitment. We welcome authentic applications that reflect your own skills, experience and motivations for the role. While we understand that candidates may use AI tools for grammar, formatting or accessibility purposes, applications that appear to be substantially AI‑generated may be subject to additional review. If this applies to your submission, we will let you know and may ask for clarification. Please ensure your application accurately represents your experience and is written in your own words.

Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please click on the link to check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship Skilled worker: Health and Care Visa | NHS Employers

Important visa information: Due to UK Home Office immigration rule changes effective from 22 July 2025, applicants sponsored under Occupation Code 6131 (Nursing Auxiliaries and Assistants) may not be eligible to bring dependants under the Skilled Worker route if their Certificate of Sponsorship is issued on or after this date. Applicants are responsible for understanding how these rules apply to their individual circumstances. The Trust cannot provide immigration advice. Further information is available on the Skilled Worker visa: Your partner and children - GOV.UK

Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).

Person specification

Professional

• Demonstrable post registration experience in a Clinical Setting
• Has had experience as Band 6 or Band 7 previously and can show what are their transferrable skills to this role
• Mentoring and Practice Assessor in previous roles
• Evidence of management and leadership skills
• Teaching qualification
• specific knowledge of the clinical area/speciality
• Demonstrates expert knowledge

Skills

• Able to prioritise and re-prioritise workload and demonstrate this through appropriate examples
• Understands the value of change and has taken place in transformation
• Demonstrate clear communication skills with examples throughout their career
• Working across division
• deputising for matron/departmental manager

Leadership

• Able to understand own leadership style and has given examples on how this has been used in the past
• Clear evidence of resilience in the application form
• Able to evidence that they managed complex conflicts and responds to people's needs
• Leadership courses

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.

For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.

Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.

We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.

Most of our posts are subject to a DBS check, however having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from obtaining a position. Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

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