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Clinical Sister Ward 27
The closing date is 06 January 2026
We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Sister to join our dedicated team on ward 27 orthopeadic team providing high-quality nursing orthopeadic care to adult patient This role is pivotal in supporting our vision of delivering outstanding, compassionate care while fostering the development of our nursing and medical workforce.
As a Clinical Sister, you will work collaboratively with the Ward Manager to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the ward, lead by example, and contribute to a positive, supportive environment for both patients and staff.
What We're Looking For
* Essential: Experience in caring for Adult Surgical/orthopeadic/medical nursing experience
* Compassionate, dynamic, and enthusiastic approach
* Strong leadership and organizational skills
* Ability to motivate and support staff in a busy clinical setting
* Commitment to high standards of patient care and staff development
Why Join Us?
* Be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team
* Access to structured training and development opportunities
* Opportunity to make a real impact on patient care and staff experience
Main duties of the job
Training & Development An ongoing training Programme is in place, supported by our Clinical Nurse Educator teams. You will play a key rôle in ward-based learning and staff development, ensuring continuous improvement and excellence in care delivery.
Key Responsibilities
* Support the Ward Manager in operational and clinical leadership
* Promote a culture of compassionate, safe, and effective care
* Mentor and develop nursing staff through education and supervision
* Contribute to workforce retention and professional growth initiatives
Candidates must have excellent communication skills, IT skills and experience with electronic patient records is desirable, however training will be given.
The applicant must be able to exhibit their commitment to developing the service by demonstrating the ability to work independently as well as within a dedicated team to provide a high quality patient experience.
We offer a supportive environment within a new and developing speciality team, where you will have the opportunity to develop both personally and professionally.
Good Leadership skills are required as you will provide clinical and managerial leadership to the nursing team and liaise with the wider multidisciplinary team, regularly taking charge of this complex and busy ward.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well‑being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person Specification
Assessment
* Significant previous experience within an acute setting at B5
* Initiative to plan future career development
* Experience of change management
* Ability to apply a range of management skills, principles and practice, including ability to work to agreed departmental standards
* Completion of B5 management or equivalent management experience
* Experience of working in Orthopaedics
* Completion of leadership or equivalent management course
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata
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