# Paediatric Junior Sister/Charge Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/paediatric-junior-sistercharge-nurse/0c5f9f8c-9803-4873-b8cd-39d8aca69ca9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/paediatric-junior-sistercharge-nurse/0c5f9f8c-9803-4873-b8cd-39d8aca69ca9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust - **Location:** St Bartholomew's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Charge nurse - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 per annum inc - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-22T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-11-06T15:50:32.733Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/C_PICU/C_PICU-v8422127 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8422127?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Barts Health is one of the largest acute and community children’s practices in the UK. We recognise the growing needs of the children from the vibrant part of East London and committed to delivering excellence in specialist treatment, research, education, and care for children. A crucial part in achieving this promise is the future development and investment of the Paediatric Critical Care Unit based at the Royal London Hospital. The Paediatric Critical Care Unit is an indispensable part of the Childrens service and strategy, ensuring that local children can be treated and cared for in their local hospital. It is also a tertiary referral centre accepting admissions from north east London and further afield to support the increasing demand for Paediatric critical care. You will need to have previous experience of working within Paediatric Intensive Care and to have completed your intensive care training. Your main responsibility will be the clinical care of critically ill children; whilst allowing you the opportunity to share your knowledge, experience and skills. This position will also give you the chance to develop your managerial skills. You will need to thrive on working in a dynamic environment; willing to teach junior staff; demonstrate self-motivation; work well in a team. You should demonstrate a commitment to your own professional practice, as well as delivering high quality holistic care, with an emphasis on working in partnership with the children and their families. ### Main duties of the job To provide clinical leadership to a designated nursing team ensuring the delivery of the highest standard of individualised family centred care to children and their families in conjunction with the interdisciplinary team. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below. ### 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 ### Other **Essential** - Positive attitude and ability to work under pressure - Takes responsibility for own learning - Responsible for own Individual Performance Review - Lead, influence and motivate others - Communicates in a manner that is consistent with relevant legislation, policies and procedures. - Communicates with people in an appropriate form and manner ### Skills **Essential** - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Effective interpersonal skills - Excellent communication skills with people on complex matters/issues - Ability to deal with difficult situations - Excellent organisational skills - Displays professional integrity and credibility - Adaptable and able to deal with changing workloads ### Knowledge **Essential** - Evidence of continued professional development - IT skills ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working at Band 5 level with experience working in a critical care setting - Experience following completion of the Paediatric Intensive Care Course ### Qualifications **Essential** - RSCN/RN Child with current registration - Paediatric Intensive Care Course or equivalent - Preparation for mentorship course or equivalent - Intravenous accreditation **Desirable** - Leadership course/ development programme - Educated to degree level or working towards it ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 998.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10756037) - [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120) ## 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.