Job summary
- Main area
- Surgical Assessment
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Long Days & Nights)
- Job ref
- 218-NM-B6-8031882
- Employer
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/08/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/08/2026
Employer heading
Clinical Sister / Charge Nurse, Ward 12 SAW
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
We are looking for experienced registered nurse to come and join our Surgical Assessment Ward.
The Surgical Assessment Ward is a fast paced acute surgical area providing high quality treatment and ongoing care for patients requiring urgent surgical intervention. The Band 6 role involves coordinating clinical activity, supporting the multidisciplinary team, and ensuring safe, effective, and patient centred care. The post holder will be expected to provide clinical leadership, supervise junior staff, manage patient flow, and contribute to service improvement while maintaining high standards of care and compliance with Trust policies and procedures.”
Informal visits are welcome.
Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.
Main duties of the job
- Act in accordance with NMC Code and be accountable for own practice and professional actions at all times.
- Act as a clinical and professional role model for effective clinical leadership enabling and facilitating others to take forward initiatives.
- Demonstrate clinical practice expertise through personal practice and by leading by example
- You to be able to make informed decisions within their own area and scope of professional practice, involving patients and public to ensure agreed standards, objectives and targets are met.
- The leader should be able to provide exceptional treatment and care to patients throughout their pathway.
- Supervise and support junior colleagues, to be able to demonstrate leadership skills in the absence of the Ward Manager. Duties will include Co-ordinating , Erostering, Appraisals, Audits and Quality Assurance checks, Involvement in HR processes.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times, including all aspects of child protection.
- Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to patients/carers and the multi-professional team including situations where difficulties in comprehension occur.
- A competent practitioner, supervising/providing mentorship to a small number of learners or junior staff.
- Responsible for co-ordination and clinical assessment of a group of patients, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented and evaluated, involving patients and carers.
- Participate in observations of care, audit and development of service to improve quality of care.
- Demonstrate technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient care management including; patient observations; equipment management and administration of agreed invasive tests/procedures.
- Utilise and ensure others utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data.
- Manage expected clinical events/enquiries, requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort, ensuring referral to a senior member of staff where appropriate e.g in an unexpected event.
- Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
- Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.
- Maintain a clean, safe environment ensuring adherence to Trust standards of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control at all times
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Current Professional Registration • Study at level 6 (degree / diploma) • Evidence of continuous professional development • Teaching and Assessing Qualification or willingness to undertake • Teaching and Assessing qualificattion
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Post qualification experience in an acute setting. • Experience at NHS Band 5 • Evidence of dealing with difficult situations in appropriate manner • Ability to successfully manage people and change
Desirable criteria
- • Recent DAP A&E experience • Experience \or knowledge of management related issues and HR
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- • Able to manage time effectively and prioritise work load • Ability to care for a group of patients using an A to E assessment framework, able to escalate concerns. • Understanding of own professional and clinical limitations • Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult/stressful situations effectively • Venepuncture and cannulation • Self motivated and use own initative • Able to work as an effective team member • A sound knowledge of professional policies and proceduresIT skills • Patient focused • Good management of own and others time • Able to use initiative and make decisions • Analyses problems and implements effective and appropriate solutions • Evidence of self development
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values. (As detailed in UHCW’s Values in Action document below) • Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Reid
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 024 76966026
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