Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: N/A
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 392-RNOH-1310
- Employer
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Stanmore
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Sister/Charge Nurse for Children Ward
Band 7
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients
- Rated Good by the CQC
- Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
- Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
- Recognised as a centre of excellence, leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
- Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
- In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
- Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:
- Patients first, always
- Excellence, in all we do
- Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
- Equality, for all
Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.
Job overview
At Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, we are on a mission to grow our Children Hospital and make it the best Neuro-musculoskeletal provider for Children and Young People.
Are you excited with service development and improvement? Are you ready to take your nursing leadership career to the next level with demanding yet rewarding responsibility? Are you ready to lead and champion a team where Children and young people's needs are at the heart of everything they do? Do you thrive in a busy yet effective clinical environment? Then it’s an exciting time to join our dynamic and innovative team as Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
Our team include senior clinical and management staff, Neuro-musculoskeletal and orthopaedic Surgeons, Paediatricians, clinical educator and therapists. We share collective responsibility of delivering high quality, safe and effective care to Children, Young people and their families in a 27 bedded ward. Our specialities include spinal deformity, spinal injury rehabilitation, sarcoma, metabolic bone diseases, and upper and lower limb reconstruction.
While a passion for the care that Children and Young people receive is essential, we would welcome both paediatric and adult nurses applications, based on experience.
You will have opportunities to develop and further improve your leadership skills and knowledge through formal and informal education, networking, coaching and mentoring.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of successful candidate include:
- To provide clinical leadership and positive role model to their team; creating and maintaining positive work environment and thus facilitates positive staff experiences.
- To act as expert practitioner in the nursing care of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions to ensure provision of high- quality nursing care to children, young people and families.
- To ensure responsiveness to care and maintain positive experience for children, young people and families.
- To maintain safe, effective and efficient management of the department within allocated resources.
- To promote can do attitude for continual improvement of care through Quality improvement initiatives, research and evidence-based practice.
- To undertake delegated responsibility for the department in the absence of Matron and Associate Chief Nurse for Children and young people.
- To be familiar with, adopt and lead the team with the principles of the NHS Chief Nursing Officers vision for Compassion in Practice (NHS Commissioning Board Dec 2012).
Working for our organisation
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our team consists of Multidisciplinary professionals including Clinical and management nurses, Neuro-musculoskeletal and orthopaedic Surgeons, Paediatricians, Operational and service management, other clinical specialists and therapists.
We share collective responsibility of delivering high quality, safe and effective care to Children, Young people and their families in a 27 bedded ward. Our specialities include surgery for spinal deformity, spinal injury rehabilitation, sarcoma, metabolic bone diseases, upper and lower limb reconstruction.
The successful candidate will be supported by the Matron for Children and young people and other senior nursing leaders. They will have access to internal and external opportunities to develop and further improve their leadership skills and knowledge through formal and informal education, networking, coaching and mentoring.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and Person specification, for more information on the Job responsibilities and Role requirements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RSCN/RN Child registered with active NMC registration.
- Educated to first Degree or working toward it.
- Post registration training that is relevant to area of practice.
- Preparation for Mentorship course or equivalent.
- EPLS/HDU/Care of Critically ill Children or working towards it.
- Evidence of continued professional development plan.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership course / development programme
- APLS
- Working towards PG dip or Masters Programme
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical experience of the speciality
- Team leadership and supervision
- People and performance management
- Change management
- Clinical IT systems
- Implementing clinical guidelines, policies and procedures including safeguarding children processes
Desirable criteria
- Working with PAS
- Children's high Dependency Nursing experience
- Audit and research
- Leading quality improvement project
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit.
- Awareness of Trust’s and NHS initiatives
- Awareness of and application of relevant legislation, policies, procedures and professional issues.
- NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Equality, diversity and inclusion practice
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Commitment to clinical supervision.
- Knowledge of the individuals’ responsibility towards health and safety.
- Awareness of the structure and organisation of the wider Customer care and complaints handling.
- Awareness of research methods
Desirable criteria
- NHS organisation and its service developments.
- Application of the NHS Plan in practice
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
- Lauran O'Neill
- Job title
- Matron for Children and Young People
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02039470100
- Additional information
Lauran O'Neill Gutierrez
Matron for Children and Young People
ext. 1214
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