Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2259
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Marys Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Sister/ Charge Nurse
Band 6
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Take your paediatric nursing career to the next level at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Based at St Mary’s Hospital, a major acute and trauma centre for North West London, you’ll join a forward-thinking team delivering high-quality care across two dynamic paediatric wards.
You’ll be working across two key areas: Great Western Ward and Westway Ward.
Great Western Ward is a 22–25 bedded unit caring for children from neonates to young adults. As a specialist centre for trauma, infectious diseases and haematology, we manage complex cases and acute trauma admissions from ED, as well as step-downs from PICU and NICU. You’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver expert care in a fast-paced environment.
Westway Ward is our dedicated day surgery unit covering ENT, trauma and orthopaedics, ophthalmology, general surgery, and plastics amongst other ambulatory activity. This role offers excellent leadership development opportunities, including team management, rostering, MDT participation, pre-assessment clinics, and policy development within surgical specialities.
We offer tailored training supported by clinical nurse educators, with access to leadership programmes, specialist courses (e.g. diabetes, EPALS, surgical pre-assessment), and quality improvement initiatives. Clinical exposure includes high dependency care, respiratory, epilepsy, allergy/immunology, diabetes, mental health crisis, and more.
Main duties of the job
- Providing high quality, effective and individualised nursing care to a variety of patients in a compassionate and caring way.
- Assessing care needs and developing, implementing and evaluating care plans without supervision.
- Helping to lead and monitor the performance of the nursing team.
- Deputising for the Senior Nurse as required.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RSCN
- Experience of supervision of junior staff, Mentorship in practice or equivalent
- Excellent level of English language demonstrated through effective written and verbal communication skills
Desirable criteria
- APLS
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 12 months at pay band 5 within the relevant speciality.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Experience of change management – positive change agent
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- For specialist areas able to demonstrate specialist knowledge of patient group
- Knowledge of research and audit
- Ability to demonstrate application of the NHS Plan to own
- Able to manage difficult situations.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to take charge of a ward or part of a ward, delegate and supervise junior staff
- Leadership skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natasha Addington
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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