Sister/Charge Nurse

NHS Blood and Transplant; Stoke-on-Trent; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Healthcare Lead responsible for overseeing a team of Healthcare Assistants and ensuring excellent care delivery. You will utilize your clinical expertise to assess potential donors, lead training efforts, and ensure compliance with regulations. The role requires a Registered Nurse with leadership qualities and IT proficiency. The position offers flexible working hours, extensive benefits, and a supportive environment.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Time off in lieu (TOIL)

Qualifications

• Demonstrate leadership qualities and understand the principles of best practice.
• Have experience of supporting the professional development of others.
• Have experience working with Information Technology.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe assessment and blood donation of donors.
• Maintain the competency and skills of your team.
• Adapt communication styles for difficult conversations.

Skills

Leadership qualities

Understanding of clinical audit

Experience with IT tools

Education

Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

Overview

You will be responsible for leading a team of Healthcare Assistants and Donor Care Supervisors, ensuring they are motivated, well-trained, and capable of delivering excellent care. You will foster a positive working environment, provide ongoing training and support, and address any team issues. You will use your clinical expertise and judgment to assess whether potential donors meet the necessary health and safety criteria for blood donation, considering medical history, current health status, and other relevant factors. This role requires strong leadership, clinical expertise, and a deep understanding of regulatory requirements. You will ensure the team delivers exceptional care while making critical decisions that affect donor safety and the overall quality of the service.

Main duties of the job

• Taking clinical responsibility for ensuring the safe assessment and blood donation of our donors.
• Being accountable for the safe running of a blood donation session.
• Taking responsibility for ensuring an excellent donor experience.
• Maintaining the competency and skills of your team and yourself.
• Being able to adapt communication styles for difficult conversations.
• Maintaining your professional development to help us deliver improvements to our practice.

Your Working Hours

On a shift basis; the normal hours for this role are up to 4 days per week if full-time. We can also offer part-time hours. Early shifts start from 7:45am and finish around 6:15pm. Late shifts start at 10:00–11:00am and finish at either 8:30pm or 9:30pm depending on start time. Weekend and bank holiday working will be required. You can expect to work some long hours, but you won’t be working more than five days a week.

About You

Experience and Knowledge

• Demonstrate leadership qualities and understand the principles of best practice to deliver high quality care.
• Have experience of supporting the professional development of others.
• Have an understanding of clinical audit and research.
• Have experience of supporting improvements and change in practice.
• Have an awareness of patient safety initiatives and risk management.
• Have experience of working with Information Technology such as hand-held devices and Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

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 (check if applicable).

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

• No night shifts.
• TOIL (Time off in Lieu).
• Opportunities to work in other areas/specialisms.
• Facilitating donation.
• NHSBT promotes flexible working opportunities where the role will allow.
• 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and to 33 days after 10 years.
• NHS pension scheme. The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns).
• Details of benefits can be found at www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pensions.
• We support you in reaching your full potential through our Thrive program, open to everyone at NHSBT.

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Monday 6th October 2025. Interviews are anticipated to be held week commencing 13th October 2025, subject to confirmation. For informal enquiries or to arrange a visit to the centre please contact:

• Name: Des Bland
• Job Title: Clinical Donor Centre Manager
• Email: [e-mail]