# Junior Sister/ Charge Nurse - Emergency Department > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/junior-sister-charge-nurse-emergency-department/913bae53-949e-4bb9-9763-3e385db2afe1 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/junior-sister-charge-nurse-emergency-department/913bae53-949e-4bb9-9763-3e385db2afe1.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** City Health Campus - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Charge nurse - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-28T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-14T09:20:46.222Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Smethwick/Sandwell_West_Birmingham_NHS_Trust/Emergency_Department/Emergency_Department-v8211329 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8211329?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.swbh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Come and join one of the region's largest and most innovative Emergency Departments at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, based within the state-of-the-art Midland Metropolitan University Hospital. We are seeking a motivated, compassionate Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to join our dynamic team. This role is ideal for an Emergency Department nurse who is passionate about delivering outstanding patient care whilst developing their clinical leadership skills. As a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse, you will provide day-to-day clinical and operational leadership within the department, supporting the delivery of safe, effective, and person-centred care. You will help coordinate departmental activity, promote patient flow, and ensure high standards of nursing practice. You will act as a visible clinical role model, supporting, supervising, and developing nursing staff and students, while fostering a culture of learning, teamwork, and continuous improvement. We are looking for an individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, demonstrates excellent clinical decision-making skills, and is committed to delivering high-quality emergency care. In return, we offer a supportive leadership team, excellent development opportunities, and the chance to help shape the future of emergency care within a modern NHS Trust. If you are ready to take the next step in your leadership journey, we would love to hear from you. ### Main duties of the job As a Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse, you will provide clinical and operational leadership within the Emergency Department, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate patient care. Key responsibilities include: - Coordinating the day-to-day running of the department and supporting patient flow. - Acting as a senior clinical role model, delivering high standards of emergency nursing care. - Providing leadership, supervision, and support to registered nurses, nursing associates, healthcare support workers, and students. - Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for patients with a wide range of urgent and emergency healthcare needs. - Supporting the management of deteriorating and critically ill patients through timely assessment and escalation. - Promoting evidence-based practice and ensuring compliance with national and local policies, standards, and guidelines. - Contributing to workforce management, including staff deployment, mentoring, teaching, and appraisal processes. - Leading on quality improvement, clinical governance, patient safety, and incident learning initiatives. - Working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to enhance patient experience and clinical outcomes. - Supporting the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in achieving departmental objectives, operational targets, and service development projects. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Demonstrable post registration experience including relevant experience as a senior staff nurse - Relevant experience in emergency department nursing **Desirable** - Emergency department management experience - Project management - Experience of leading on a quality improvement project ### Qualifications **Essential** - Current NMC registration. - RN Adults - Post basic qualification in ED nursing or equivalent experience - Teaching and assessing qualification. **Desirable** - Leadership or First line management qualification. - Manchester Triage Qualification - Advanced life Support Qualification - Completion of Recognising a deteriorating patient course or qualification ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 155.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10518659) - [ps (pdf, 107.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10518660) - [swb- sustainability (pdf, 49.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2657) - [candidate briefing pack (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2982) - [swb reward & recognition guide (pdf, 704.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2604) - [flexible working document – healthier futures (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2437) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.