Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 392-RNOH-1244
- Employer
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
- Town
- Stanmore
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc HCAS (Pro rata LTFT)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Ward Sister/ Charge Nurse
Band 6
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
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is on a mission to grow their 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 career to the next level with demanding yet rewarding responsibility? Are you ready to be part of team where Children and young people's needs are at heart of everything they do? Do you thrive in a busy yet effective clinical environment? Do you maintain active continuous personal and professional development plans and action? These sound like you? Then it’s an exciting time to join our dynamic and innovative team as sister or 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.
You will have opportunities to develop and improve your team leadership skills and knowledge through formal and informal education.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties and Responsibilities
The Sister/ Charge Nurse will be responsible for delivering high quality care to CYP ensuring the smooth running of the ward. They will be expected to work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to coordinate family centred and effective care for CYP and their families. They are expected to work closely with and also delegate for the Ward Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in order to maintain high standards in their absence. Your responsibilities will include managing the training and development of both registered and non-registered nursing staff within the team.
Working for our organisation
RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) 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. 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. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers 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. For more information, please access the following link:
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical responsibilities
- Act at all times to ensure high standard of care is delivered to CYP and families.
- Act to ensure safety of care and environment are maintained at all times.
- Provides direct nursing care to CYP and supports colleagues with their workloads.
- Maintains and develops high standards of care for all CYP within the unit.
- Ensures nursing care on the ward is delivered in a holistic manner using an individualised and family centred approach.
- Supports senior management in the development of Nursing Policies relevant to the ward and the Trust.
- Serves as a preceptor for new employees, students and staff members who are unfamiliar with the ward.
- Acts as a resource and role model for junior staff
- Participates and facilitates in the promotion of nursing and CYP educations and health promotion
- Promote welcoming, open and friendly working environment.
- Act as an advocate for the CYP and their families
- Undertake CYP assessment and problem identification including goal setting
- Plan, implement and evaluate all aspects of CYP care from admission to discharge, working in partnership with the multidisciplinary team.
- Ensure care needs of both the CYP and families and carers attending the department are met.
- Participate in quality nursing audits and other relevant audit plans within the ward and across the Trust as requested.
Educational Responsibilities:
- Maintains own professional development through further study
- Support other staff education, participate in clinical teaching and supervision as appropriate.
- Support and participate in the implementation of research findings and disseminates information as appropriate to enhance current trend and evidence based nursing care
- Participates/collaborates in the audit, setting and evaluating standards of care.
- Support Quality Improvement work and be a positive change agent, collaborates in the development of innovative practices.
- Provides support in the orientation and induction of new staff including temporary staff
- Participates/collaborates in the assessment of staff education needs.
- Ensure compliance with own yearly appraisal.
- Conduct staff appraisal as delegated and appropriate following training and supervision
Management Responsibilities:
- Lead clinical shifts and also support colleagues to develop the skills of Nurse in charge
- Co-ordinating CYP care and ward routine, making daily management decisions, supporting the team with clinical workload, wellbeing as appropriate
- Report and escalate any safety concern. Investigate incidents and produce report to senior sister/charge nurse and appropriate member of the team as requested.
- Responsible for ensuring staffing levels and skill mix of shifts are appropriate
- Support the ward senior sister/charge nurse in planning for safe nursing
- Promotes effective multi-professional collaboration and practice throughout the unit.
- Assists the senior sister/charge nurse in the recruitment and selection process
- Report any potential complaints or untoward incidents to the ward manager and participate in the trusts risk management process as appropriate.
- Assists in the management of budgets and ensures available resources are used efficiently.
- Assists staff as needed with stress reduction techniques and or direct to appropriate help.
- Maintain CYPF and staff confidentiality at all times.
- Be flexible with working hours to facilitate safe nursing care.
- Support the senior sister/charge nurse in staff compliance with educational and training requirements
Professional Responsibilities:
- To practice within the scope of the NMC guidelines and unit policies and procedures
- To ensure that all documentation are accurate and legal
- Ensures staff sickness is appropriately documented, support senior sister/charge nurse with sickness management of staff
- Ensure good working relationships with the multi-professional team and to attend multi-professional meetings as appropriate.
- Act as a professional and positive role models.
- Promote welcoming and friendly working environment
- To comply with mandatory educational and training requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RSCN
- Diploma
- Preparation for Mentorship course or equivalent
- Educated to first Degree or working toward it.
- Evidence of continuous professional development plan and action
Desirable criteria
- APLS
- EPLS/HDU/Care of Critically ill Children or working towards it.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial clinical experience of children nursing in relevant specialities/ or other acute settings.
- Ability to lead small team of nurses
- Ability to participate in change management process
- Ability to interpret and implement clinical guidelines, policies and procedures including safeguarding children processes.
Desirable criteria
- Children’s High Dependency care
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of ability to delivering high quality nursing assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating care for children and young people.
- Ability to act as mentor, preceptor for junior staff
- Good communication skills (written, non-verbal & verbal)
- Self-motivated and ability to motivate others
- Basic Microsoft Office packages skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Amal Nur
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3947 0100
- Additional information
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