The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Sister/Charge Nurse

The closing date is 13 March 2026

Job summary

Ready for your first Junior Sister Role or perhaps are you working currently as a band 6 and looking for a fresh challenge? If so we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, forward thinking, committed and motivated Junior Sister/Charge Nurse with excellent communication and leadership skills to join our nursing team. The successful candidate will support the Ward Manager and Multidisciplinary team to provide patient centred evidence based care; maintain high care delivery standards and efficient, safe management of patients within our busy ward.

This role will offer the opportunity to be clinically in charge of a shift leading a team and supporting them in delivering high quality care. You will also be able to use your clinical expertise working to deliver high quality care and assist with our facilitation of discharges.

If you would like to explore this opportunity further and have a passion for developing and improving services for Cardiology we would want to hear from you. As part of joining the Trust you will receive a personal professional development plan to support your future career with The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Main duties of the job

Manage the ward environment, and be responsible for ensuring co-ordination and delivery of skilled, effective care and safe, timely discharge.
Assess, prioritise, plan, implement and evaluate individualised patient care. Supervise others in the aforementioned functions.
Ensure safe, timely discharge or transfer, of patient, to wards, other hospitals or care settings.
Perform and ensure others perform patient observations such as blood pressure, pulse, respirations, oxygen saturations, early warning score, pain score, pressure score, peak expiratory flow, temperatures, and electrocardiographs.
Provide follow up advice, treatment and care.
Perform procedures.
Complete Investigations such as blood glucose measurement, ward test urine.
Recognise and advise on Vulnerable Adult Abuse protection issues and follow the Kirklees Vulnerable Adult Protection Policy, informing the appropriate professionals and parents/carers of concerns and procedure as per Mid-Yorkshire Trust policy.
Initiate and participate in Immediate Life Support and cardiac arrest management.
Maintain clear, accurate, legible and timely written documentation in patients notes providing a record of care delivered. Remind other members of the team to do likewise.
Administer intra venous, intra muscular, subcutaneous injections, and rectal and oral medication.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers,home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Date posted

09 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

001123

Job locations

Pinderfields Hospital

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Essential person specification requirements

Qualifications

Current NMC Registration.
Evidence of Continual Professional Development.
Nursing/Critical Care Nursing or equivalent;
Immediate Life Support course.
ECG interpretation and skills in practice course (covered in Coronary Care Course or standalone module) either from University (or working toward).
Rhythm recognition.

Experience

Proven experience as a junior sister
Evidence of participating in the development of patient care
Significant Band 5 experience with evidence of working/training in Band 6 specific roles.
Preparation/recovery of complex device patients.
Preparation and recovery of Angiography/PCI patients (TR Band removal and femoral artery sheath removal competent) – able to identify and manage post procedure complications.
Management of patients that require CPAP
Coronary care unit

Skills and Abilities

Effective communication skills, verbal and written.
Demonstrates leadership skills.
Ability to motivate self and others
Has expanded clinical competencies such as wound closure; Intravenous cannulation;
Administration of intravenous medicines

Job description

Job responsibilities

Essential person specification requirements

Qualifications

Current NMC Registration.
Evidence of Continual Professional Development.
Nursing/Critical Care Nursing or equivalent;
Immediate Life Support course.
ECG interpretation and skills in practice course (covered in Coronary Care Course or standalone module) either from University (or working toward).
Rhythm recognition.

Experience

Proven experience as a junior sister
Evidence of participating in the development of patient care
Significant Band 5 experience with evidence of working/training in Band 6 specific roles.
Preparation/recovery of complex device patients.
Preparation and recovery of Angiography/PCI patients (TR Band removal and femoral artery sheath removal competent) – able to identify and manage post procedure complications.
Management of patients that require CPAP
Coronary care unit

Skills and Abilities

Effective communication skills, verbal and written.
Demonstrates leadership skills.
Ability to motivate self and others
Has expanded clinical competencies such as wound closure; Intravenous cannulation;
Administration of intravenous medicines

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click apply now to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to apply).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click apply now to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to apply).

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.