Band 6 Night Sister

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

The closing date is 28 March 2025

Job summary

Band 6 Senior Night Sister / Senior Charge Nurse

An Exciting Opportunity to Lead and Support Our Night Teams.

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 Senior Night Sister / Senior Charge Nurse to join our dedicated team at Moseley Hall Hospital. This role is vital in providing strong leadership, professional support, and ensuring high standards of care during night shifts. While primarily a night-shift role, attendance at some daytime training sessions will be required. If you have the skills, drive, and dedication to make a difference, we would love to hear from you! Join us and play a key role in our mission to deliver exceptional care throughout the night.

Main duties of the job

About the Role:

As a Senior Night Sister / Charge Nurse, you will be a visible, accessible, and authoritative presence across our clinical areas. Patients, families, and staff will look to you for leadership, advice, and support.

Your key responsibilities will include:Leadership and Governance - Ensuring professional standards, accountability, and timely management of complaints/incidents.Safe Staffing and Workforce Planning - Overseeing resource management, ensuring safe staffing levels in line with SOPs.Patient Safety and Experience - Enhancing care quality and working to reduce health inequalities. Supporting Junior Staff - Providing guidance on clinical queries and complex patient caseloads.Performance and Operations - Overseeing service continuity, managing digital and IT issues during system downtimes.Service Improvement and Transformation - Leading initiatives to improve care delivery and patient outcomes.Out-of-Hours Senior Support - Being physically present at Moseley Hall Hospital and available via telephone to support West Heath Hospital (WHH), Community Unit 27 (CU27), Perry Trees Centre (PTC), and Anne Marie Howes Centre (AMH).

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

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Date posted

14 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per Annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

820-7060307-ASR

Job locations

Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Road

Birmingham

B13 8JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details on the main responsibilities and job description, please see the attached JD/PS Document

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details on the main responsibilities and job description, please see the attached JD/PS Document

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Training

Essential

  • BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing
  • Current registration with NMC
  • Tracheostomy trained
  • Catheterisation competency
  • NG tube trained
  • Evidence of recent Continuous Professional Development

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of clinical audit.
  • Experience in teaching, mentoring and assessment
  • Significant level of experience caring for patients with range of complex health needs.
  • Experience of clinical incident management

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to provide and understand high standards of patient care and service delivery
  • Ability to utilise evidence-based practice
  • Leadership Skills
  • Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of NMC code of conduct and scope of professional practice

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Ability to prioritise clinical needs and challenge practice
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and networking skills
Person Specification

Qualifications/ Training

Essential

  • BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing
  • Current registration with NMC
  • Tracheostomy trained
  • Catheterisation competency
  • NG tube trained
  • Evidence of recent Continuous Professional Development

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of clinical audit.
  • Experience in teaching, mentoring and assessment
  • Significant level of experience caring for patients with range of complex health needs.
  • Experience of clinical incident management

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to provide and understand high standards of patient care and service delivery
  • Ability to utilise evidence-based practice
  • Leadership Skills
  • Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of NMC code of conduct and scope of professional practice

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Ability to prioritise clinical needs and challenge practice
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and networking skills

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Road

Birmingham

B13 8JL


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Road

Birmingham

B13 8JL


Employer's website

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

For questions about the job, contact:

Matron

Rumbi Marira

rumbidzai.marira@nhs.net

07514723565

Date posted

14 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per Annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

820-7060307-ASR

Job locations

Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Road

Birmingham

B13 8JL


Supporting documents

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