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Job Summary
Are you a passionate and experienced children\'s nurse with a specialist interest in a medical investigation day unit? We are seeking a highly motivated Band 6 Sister/ Charge Nurse to support and coordinate care within our regional medical day-case unit. This is a senior clinical leadership role in a well-established multidisciplinary team, caring for children with a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, metabolic, respiratory, immunology, neurology, oncology, rheumatology and gastroenterology on a day case basis. This is a nurse led unit for children receiving complex and innovative therapies. To support the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse, acting as a deputy when the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse is absent. The candidate must deliver quality nursing care by ensuring appropriate systems and processes are in place to ensure the continuity of safe and effective care at all times.
* Interview date: 29 September 2025
* 37 hours 30 minutes/week
* You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
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Main duties of the job
* Demonstrate effective communication and provide a compassionate leadership approach, maintaining clinical workload, and some management responsibilities of the medical day unit within GNCH.
* Act as guardian for professional accountability and standards, ensuring professional practices in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and the Trust.
* Ensure environmental standards and cleanliness are maintained in line with national and Trust Standards in the ward/department.
* Effectively manage the ward/department nursing resource.
* Provide evidence based care for all children and participate, as required, in advancing care with research.
* Support and contribute to the development of patient care and nursing practice within the Directorate, contributing to Trust projects where required.
* Ensure junior staff and students have appropriate supervision and support and are appropriately assessed.
About Us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
* Freeman Hospital
* Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
* Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
* Newcastle Dental Hospital
* Newcastle Fertility Centre
* Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
* Northern Genetics Service
* Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Details
Date posted: 01 September 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change — Band 6
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 317-2025-36-16-DR
Job locations: Royal Victoria Infirmary, NE1 4LP
Job Description
Job responsibilities
* To support the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse, acting as a deputy when the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse is absent.
* In areas within the organisation nurses may be banded at 6 by virtue clinical reasons, for example, critical care.
* Provide effective support and leadership to both staff, patients and carers within the ward or department.
* Act as role model, teacher and supervisor for junior staff and students.
* Ensure systems are in place to provide the continuity of safe effective care for patients at all times.
* Effective member of the multi-disciplinary team.
Person Specification
Essential
Qualifications & Education
* Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch) / Operating Department Practitioner
* Current NMC / HCPC registration
* Diploma in a health related subject, prepared to take degree level study
* Specialist qualification if relevant to role or previous experience
* Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for student supervision and assessment (Mentorship)
Desirable
* Degree in health related subject
* Relevant specialist qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
* Previous post registration experience relevant and recent
* Evidence of achievements and career development in current post
* Understanding of professional accountability in a leadership role
* Knowledge of NHS policy or project specific policy context
* Understanding/experience of adult/child safeguarding
Desirable
* Audit / research experience
* Relevant clinical skills e.g. cannulation / IV drug administration / scrubbing / anaesthetic skills
Skills & Abilities
* Good IT skills
Other information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require a DBS check.
Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require Skilled worker sponsorship will be considered. See UK Visas and Immigration for details.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer details
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — Royal Victoria Infirmary, NE1 4LP
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