South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Stoma Care Sister

The closing date is 01 March 2026

Job summary

An excellent opportunity has opened up for a Stoma Care Sister

?The post holder will assist in the delivery of the Stoma Care Nursing Service for patients who have had stoma surgery

?The post holder will deliver stoma care to a high standard ensuring all patients, relatives' careers and health care professionals have access to stoma care nursing support and advice

?The post holder will manage a caseload within the specialist field of stoma care, networking with nurse specialists regionally and nationally

?The post holder will provide leadership for the stoma care team ensuring that the service drives forward improvements and changes as required

Main duties of the job

? To deliver high quality stoma care which includes specialist assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care for stoma patients

? To work independently with minimal supervision, developing higher-level practice through specialist stoma care knowledge and expertise

? To act as the patients, advocate in decision making regarding stoma formation and underlying diagnosis including cancer and benign disease whilst also providing emotional support

? To act as a point of contact for stoma patients, their families, and carers

? Teach patients and families essential self-care skills for managing their stoma which helps to promote independence

? To act as a role model, providing supervision, and delegate to other staff, ensuring high standards of evidence-based care

? Support teaching programmes to other healthcare professional to help build competencies across the group

? Work across hospital settings to ensure seamless care for patients from admission to discharge and beyond

Please note this post may close at sufficient applicants

About us

We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

Your Leadership Impact

Leading your Team to Success

Leading Into the Future

Service Improvement for Beginners

Developing your Service Improvement Skills

Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust values and behaviours

Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills

Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Date posted

19 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

328-DUG-7754617

Job locations

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered nurse with associated degree
Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
NMC level 1 registration
Equiv. post grad study experience,
Specialist training

Desirable

ENB 980 Stoma Course
Leadership and management qualification
Quality Improvement training

Experience

Essential

Appropriate clinical knowledge and experience of stoma care management
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work independently and part of the team
Ability to prioritise and organise workload
Demonstrate clinical credibility and maintained practice

Desirable

Counselling skills
Leadership and management experience
Involved in quality improvement implementation
Change management

Knowledge

Essential

Effective communication skills
Excellent influencing and interpersonal skills with people at all levels, internally and externally with the ability to identify key stakeholders
Complex problem solving and assessment skills
Stoma care management
In depth knowledge of speciality area of practice
Current clinical and professional issues in colorectal disease
IT literacy particularly skills on Microsoft office and electronic patient records

Desirable

Knowledge of Primary Care setting

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered nurse with associated degree
Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
NMC level 1 registration
Equiv. post grad study experience,
Specialist training

Desirable

ENB 980 Stoma Course
Leadership and management qualification
Quality Improvement training

Experience

Essential

Appropriate clinical knowledge and experience of stoma care management
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work independently and part of the team
Ability to prioritise and organise workload
Demonstrate clinical credibility and maintained practice

Desirable

Counselling skills
Leadership and management experience
Involved in quality improvement implementation
Change management

Knowledge

Essential

Effective communication skills
Excellent influencing and interpersonal skills with people at all levels, internally and externally with the ability to identify key stakeholders
Complex problem solving and assessment skills
Stoma care management
In depth knowledge of speciality area of practice
Current clinical and professional issues in colorectal disease
IT literacy particularly skills on Microsoft office and electronic patient records

Desirable

Knowledge of Primary Care setting

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)