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Birmingham Children’s Hospital is part of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and is the UK’s leading specialist paediatric centre, caring for sick children and young people between 0 and 16 years of age. Based in the heart of Birmingham city centre, the hospital is a world leader in some of the most advanced treatments, complex surgical procedures and cutting edge research and development
In liaison with the Ward 17 Sister and Lead Nurse; participate in the development and management of day care and 23hr services in Surgery for the Trust. Be responsible for the day to day delivery of care on Surgical Day Care/ or W17 waterfall House.
To deliver safe, effective and high quality care to children, young persons and their families.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for individuals who have excellent clinical and organisational skills and can provide leadership to the nursing team in order to ensure high quality care is delivered to our patients. The successful candidates will be required to take charge of the department on a day-to-day basis and coordinate flow of patients from arrival through to discharge whilst ensuring patient safety and the sustainability of good staff morale.
You will manage the department whilst upholding and promoting the Trust Values. Managerially the successful candidate will be expected to manage a team of staff and guide them in their personal and professional development.
We are committed to developing our nursing staff. We also offer access to PILS, EPALS and management matters. As well as lots of opportunities to develop yourself further in a chosen area via a link worker role.
Why not become part of the team delivering excellent surgical care?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- NMC Current Registration
- RN Part 1 – Child
Desirable
- Non-Medical Prescribing
- Paediatric Assessment Skills Course
- Tracheostomy training
- Blood Taking and Cannulation
- Course in Mentoring and Assessing in Clinical Practice
ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT SKILLS
Essential
- Be able to analyse, evaluate and reflect on different situations
- Ability to think quickly and respond to a rapidly changing environment.
KNOWLEDGE & NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience at Senior Staff nurse level
- Willingness to participate fully with courses and added skills for nurse led service
- Ability to manage and lead a team
- Experience of carrying out PRDs
Desirable
- Experience of Assessing children for procedures
- Experience of Cannulating children
PERSONAL SKILLS / ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES
Essential
- High level communication skills to enable communicating with children, families and other health professionals within the Trust.
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Able to engage with IT programmes to support patient care and be able to communicate effectively via email
- Able to organise daily workload to ensure high quality and safe care and work well and support surrounding team.
- Organise and delegate within the nursing team on a day to day basis.
- Ability to work with more junior staff and provide a learning and supportive environment.
- Ability to offer support to staff in satellite areas
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This advert is for Junior Sister/Charge Nurse with Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum/pro rata. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed Term). The application deadline is 06 Jul 2026.
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