# Senior Sister/Senior Charge Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** BNH
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 pa
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T07:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17T08:30:35.101Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hampshire/Basingstoke/Hampshire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Emergency_Care/Emergency_Care-v8101926
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8101926?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic leader to join us as a senior sister/senior charge nurse in our busy but rewarding Emergency Department.

The Band 7 Sister/Charge Nurse is a rewarding role. You will be pivotal in the department striving to achieve the highest standard of care for all our patients within ED. You will lead our dynamic, multi-disciplinary team on a daily basis, ensuring the smooth running of shifts in a challenging and diverse environment. Your clinical leadership and people skills are vital to delivering the responsibilities and accountabilities outlined in this job description.

### Main duties of the job

What we look for:

- Recent Band 6 Emergency Department, Critical Care or Acute Medicine experience
- Adult nurse
- Relevant emergency/critical care competencies.
- Recognised leadership qualification and experience of leading a team
- Involvement with a QI project
- Passionate about promoting and maintaining high standards of nursing care within ED
- What we Offer: We are committed to developing and supporting our nursing workforce The department is working towards the emergency care association competency framework by the RCN. Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview
- We are committed to developing and supporting our nursing workforce
- The department is working towards the emergency care association competency framework by the RCN.
- Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

### 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

### Leadership

**Essential**

- Evidence of a NHS leadership course or equivalent
- Experience in delegation and staff skills.
- Understanding and knowledge of governance and patient safety

### Skills and ability

**Essential**

- Ability to work and lead within a MDT across the organisation.
- Ability to deliver formal and informal learning sessions to all groups of professionals
- ALS/EPLS

**Desirable**

- Highly specialised clinical skills relevant to the speciality

### Experience and Knowledge

**Essential**

- Evidence of CPD
- Experience of staff supervision and mentorship

**Desirable**

- Experience of workforce budgets and staff development planning
- Evidence of teaching qualification or equivalent

### Training and qualifications

**Essential**

- NMC registered
- Degree or equivalent knowledge and skills

## Documents

- [2023 recruitment pack (pdf, 404.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10396127)
- [hhft employee rewards & benefits (pdf, 723.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=900)
- [tackling climate change at hampshire hospitals (pdf, 4.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2900)

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