Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

NHS Blood and Transplant; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organization as a Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, responsible for overseeing blood collection sessions and leading a dedicated team. This role requires strong leadership and clinical skills to ensure donor safety and quality care. Benefit from extensive training and a supportive work environment, with opportunities for professional development and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

NHS Pension Scheme

Professional development opportunities

Flexible working

Qualifications

• Experience in leadership and management in a clinical environment.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation standards of clinical care.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe collection of blood products and lead a team.
• Assess donor eligibility based on health criteria.
• Foster a positive working environment and provide ongoing training.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical expertise

Communication

Education

Registered Nurse - Adult

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Job Summary

At NHS Blood & Transplant we help people to do something extraordinary - donate blood, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save and enhance lives. We play a unique and special role in the NHS, and it takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives.

As a Band 7 Senior Sister/Senior Charge Nurse, you will be joining one of our front-line teams that covers Wolverhampton and the surrounding areas including South Staffordshire and the Black Country. You will be travelling throughout the region to mobile sessions- so your daily workplace will rarely look the same.

Joining us as a Donor-facing Band 7 Senior Sister/Senior Charge Nurse, you will be responsible for ensuring the safe collection of blood and blood products and leading a team of Donor Carers, Donor Care Supervisors, and Band 6 Nurses. You will hold responsibility for the collection sessions and ensure we are delivering excellent care to our donors.

You don’t need prior experience of working as a session nurse, you will have access to extensive induction and training programme, with ongoing assessment, and receive ongoing development to support you in your role and to develop your leadership and management skills.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to foster a positive working environment, provide ongoing training, and support, and address any team issues or concerns that arise. You will use your clinical expertise and judgment to assess whether potential donors meet the necessary health and safety criteria for blood donation. This includes considering the donor's medical history, current health status, and any other relevant factors.

This role requires strong leadership skills, clinical expertise, and a deep understanding of regulatory requirements. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that the team delivers exceptional care while making critical decisions that affect donor safety and the overall quality of the service.

Your duties will include:-

• Taking clinical accountability and operational responsibility for ensuring the safe collection of blood products.
• Leading by example, promoting our core values and behaviours to deliver an excellent donation experience.
• Overseeing and maintaining the competency and skills of your team and yourself.
• Motivating your team to promote continuous improvement and staff development.
• Collaborating with a range of stakeholders to effectively plan and resource blood collection sessions.
  
  
  

Hours will be variable, and you may be required to cover blood collection sessions if required. Your shifts may include evenings, weekends and bank holidays but never any nights!

Our Sister/Charge Nurses work in a fast moving and variable environment and play an essential role in the collection of blood and blood products, directly contributing to saving and improving patient’s lives. Find out more about Nursing at NHSBT here: Nursing - NHSBT Careers

About You

Experience and Knowledge

• Have experience of using Microsoft Office packages and iOS to prepare documents, deliver presentations and communicate
• Have experience of leadership and management in a clinical environment
• Have experience of recognising and implementing improvements and change management
• Have experience in monitoring and evaluation standards of clinical care and an understanding of clinical audit and research
• Have experience of initiating and supporting the professional development of
• colleagues
• Have experience of working to performance objectives and organisational targets
• Have an awareness of patient safety initiatives and risk management
  
  
  

Qualifications And Training

• Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration (which must be maintained) as Registered Nurse – Adult
• Hold a full and valid UK driving licence with no more than 6 points
• Evidence of continuous professional development
  
  
  

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

About Us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work – and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

What We Offer

At NHSBT, all of our nursing teams are supported by an excellent framework of practice development, offering ongoing professional development to enable us to have a strong sense of professional pride whilst we deliver a safe and quality product to our hospitals and the best standard of care to our service users.

• Focused induction and training programme with supernumerary period.
• Professional development including:
  
  
  

– NHSBT e-learning hub of online learning resources

– Leadership and Management programmes.

– Corporate Nursing Team who facilitates various professional development opportunities specific to Nursing, including Clinical Leadership, Clinical Supervision and Professional Nurse Advocates (PNA’s).

– NHSBT Nursing Council, providing a forum to share best practice, support and evaluate implementation of our NHSBT Nursing Strategy.

– Potential funding opportunities for external studies where this has been identified during your Personal Development Review.

– Apprenticeships, work-based learning programmes.

• No night shifts and TOIL (Time of in lieu). NHSBT also promotes flexible working, where the role will allow.
• Opportunity to work within other specialisms within our organisation such as Therapeutic Apheresis Services or Organ Donation.
• Minimum 27 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank/public holidays dependent on length of service
• NHS Pension Scheme - defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns). Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pensions
  
  
  

If you are shortlisted for this role, we strongly recommend you attend in person for a blood collection session tour so we can provide you with a more in-depth understanding of this role. Please note that our travel policy does not allow for the payment of travel expenses.

This vacancy will close at 23:59pm on Wednesday 28th May 2025.

Interviews are anticipated to be held on or around Wednesday 11th June 2025.

For Informal Enquiries Please Contact

Jane Whistance, Area Matron, [e-mail]

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