# Sister/Charge Nurse Band 6

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Alder Hey Children's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Charge nurse
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-30T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16T08:29:12.796Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8351124
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8351124?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.alderhey.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

To provide clinical leadership on the High Dependency Unit by co-ordinating staffing and patients and maintaining safe delivery of high-quality care on the unit. To be a good role model to junior staff and to support the Team Leader with staff issues relating to staff development, poor performance, sickness and absence.

### Main duties of the job

- Co-ordinate the unit, staff and patients, maintaining safety and deliverance of quality care.
- Counsel, appraise and give guidance and support as required.
- Support the Clinical Nurse Managers in staff issues relating to sickness and absence, poor performance, and staff development.
- Ensure that Trust Management policies and procedures are understood and followed.
- Undertake delegated responsibility for specific areas of operational management.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide clinical leadership on the High Dependency Unit by co-ordinating staffing and patients and maintaining safe delivery of high-quality care on the unit. To be a good role model to junior staff and to support the Clinical Nurse Managers with staff issues relating to staff development, poor performance, sickness and absence.

- Communication Skills
- Analytical Skills
- Planning and Organising Skills
- Responsibility for Patient/Client Care
- Responsibility fir Financial and Physical Resources
- Responsibility for Human Resources
- Responsibility for Information Resources
- Responsibility for Research and Development

### 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

### Skills

**Essential**

- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Good organisational and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to plan and prioritise workload
- Able to act on own initiative
- Active in developing the nursing workforce
- Ability to teach and assess junior nurses
- Committed to the professional development of others

**Desirable**

- Evidence of creativity and promoting new ways of working.

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Able to discuss key issues in relation to the provision of critical care services
- Embraces change

**Desirable**

- Change management experience

### Experience

**Essential**

- Demonstrated ability to supervise and lead a team of staff undertaking the ATL role under supervision of the coordinator
- Able to describe the responsibilities of the team leader and the key leadership skills required.
- Effective team worker

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of co-ordinators role.
- Completion of the ATL competencies or other relevant competencies.
- Completion of Band 5-6 HDU development competencies.

### Personal Attributes

**Essential**

- Able to work flexibly within the internal rotation roster consisting of days, nights and weekends.
- Approachable
- Role Model
- Professional

### Education and Training

**Essential**

- Registered children’s nurse
- Successful completion of High Dependency care course
- Evidence of support, supervision and training of junior staff.
- PLS

**Desirable**

- APLS

## Documents

- [hdu sister/charge nurse job description (pdf, 543.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10676507)
- [hdu band 6 sister/charge nurse person specification (pdf, 771.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10676508)

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