# Senior Sister, Robin Smith Ward - Band 7

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Royal United Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hours to be worked over a minimum of 4 days)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16T09:41:13.608Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Somerset/Bath/Royal_United_Hospitals_Bath_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing/Nursing-v8289063
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8289063?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.ruh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Senior Sister to lead Robin Smith Ward, a busy and dynamic emergency and elective surgical ward.

We are looking for an inspiring clinical leader with a passion for delivering high-quality patient care, supporting staff development, and driving continuous improvement. As Senior Sister, you will play a key role in leading a dedicated multidisciplinary team, managing operational performance, and ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care to our surgical patients.

If you are a forward-thinking nurse with excellent leadership skills and a commitment to excellence, we would love to hear from you.

### Main duties of the job

- Lead and manage the day-to-day running of the surgical ward.
- Ensure safe, high-quality patient care and positive patient experience.
- Manage staffing, rostering, recruitment, performance and staff development.
- Lead on patient safety, clinical governance, risk and quality improvement.
- Support effective patient flow, bed management and timely discharges.Investigate incidents and complaints and implement learning.
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to achieve excellent patient outcomes.
- Ensure compliance with Trust policies, professional standards and regulatory requirements.
- Manage ward resources efficiently and contribute to service improvement initiatives

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### 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

### Workforce

**Essential**

- Experience of workforce management including rostering, sickness and performance management

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant post registration experience within an acute surgical setting
- Significant band 6 experience within a clinical setting

### Leadership

**Essential**

- Leadership experience/ Qualification

### Communication

**Essential**

- Excellent communication, organisational and decision making skills

## Documents

- [band 7 jd (pdf, 438.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10606701)
- [join the ruh (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3030)

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