# Plastics Dressing Clinic Charge Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Location:** Charing Cross Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Charge nurse
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 pa inclusive
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-11T15:01:46.234Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Plastic_Surgery/Plastic_Surgery-v8269663
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8269663?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you an experienced nurse with a passion for wound care, clinical excellence and delivering a positive patient experience? We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic nurse to join our team and lead the Plastics Dressing Clinic at Charing Cross Hospital.

The Plastics Dressing Clinic is an integral part of our Plastic Surgery service, based within a nationally recognised tertiary referral centre. The department manages a high volume of complex cases, including breast and head and neck reconstructive surgery, providing an exciting opportunity to develop and enhance your specialist wound care expertise.

In this role, you will play a key part in supporting patients throughout their surgical journey, providing high-quality, evidence-based wound care and ensuring every patient receives compassionate, personalised care.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated nurse who is passionate about specialist wound management, patient-centred care and working within a dynamic, highly skilled multidisciplinary team.

### Main duties of the job

- To provide high quality, effective, individualized care to all patients by assessing care needs and developing, implementing and evaluating them without supervision
- To act as a high profile, accessible and responsive leader with clinical responsibility within the specialist plastic surgery and wound care clinic.
- To make informed decisions within own area and scope of professional practice to ensure agreed standards, objectives and targets are met.
- Monitor standards of nursing care and take appropriate action to maintain and improve them
- To ensure smooth running of the Plastic Dressing Clinic
- To provide cover and advice to other specialties as required
- To effectively line manage own roster ensuring that annual leave and holidays a booked in advanc

### 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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

### 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**

- Extensive experience in wound care and/ plastic surgery
- Knowledge of quality
- Improvement, standard setting, benchmarking and audit.
- Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct

### Education/ qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse
- A recognized teaching qualification or the equivalent experience.

**Desirable**

- Educated to degree level.
- A post Registration qualification in wound care or equivalent experience.

### Skills/knowledge/ abilities

**Essential**

- Competency in wound care assessment and management
- IT skills including use of email, Cerner and office packages
- Articulate with advanced written and oral communication skills

**Desirable**

- Ability to undertake staff appraisals or willingness to learn

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 376.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10682575)
- [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427)
- [functional requirements form (pdf, 148.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10682576)

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