# Sister/Charge nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North Bristol NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/sistercharge-nurse/6407cad0-d316-48d6-a027-6c937b072f53 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/sistercharge-nurse/6407cad0-d316-48d6-a027-6c937b072f53.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North Bristol NHS Trust - **Location:** Southmead Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent: (12 months FTC also available) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-06T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-19T11:20:42.260Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Bristol/Bristol/Bristol_NHS_Foundation_Trust_BFT/Emergency_medicine/Emergency_medicine-v8213157 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8213157?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nbt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview If you’re a highly experienced emergency care nurse with significant post-registration experience, join Southmead Hospital’s Emergency Department! As one of only two Major Trauma Centres in the region, you will gain highly acute experience across the full urgent and emergency care pathway, working with specialist regional services including neurosurgery, stroke, vascular surgery, renal medicine and transplantation. With opportunities to combine advanced clinical practice, leadership and professional autonomy, while influencing how emergency care is delivered, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality patient care, supporting patient flow and making timely clinical decisions within a fast-paced, challenging environment. You will provide operational management to designated areas, demonstrating strong clinical judgement, excellent communication skills and visible leadership. You will work autonomously while supporting and developing junior colleagues, fostering a positive team culture and ensuring safe and efficient delivery of care. With ongoing departmental reconfiguration and expansion of our workforce, help shape the future of emergency services at Southmead. We are proud to offer a CQC-commended education programme and a wide range of development opportunities, including an Advanced Clinical Practitioner training pathway, making this an ideal role for nurses looking to strengthen their leadership and progress their career in emergency care. ### Main duties of the job As a Band 6 Emergency Nurse, you'll be a senior clinical leader on the shop floor, helping to ensure patients receive safe, effective and timely care from the moment they arrive. Working across the Emergency Department and Minor Injury Unit, you'll utilise your advanced assessment skills to deliver high-quality care, support patient flow and make timely clinical decisions in a fast-paced environment. A key part of the role is taking responsibility for the operational management of designated areas within the department. Whether coordinating Majors, Minors, Resus, the waiting room, the front door or ambulance offload, you'll maintain oversight of patient flow, staffing, clinical priorities and emerging risks, ensuring safe, effective care is delivered throughout your shift. You'll work autonomously within your scope of practice while supporting and developing junior colleagues, leading by example and contributing to the continued improvement of the department. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Essential requirements include: - A minimum of 3 years' post-registration experience working within a busy Emergency Department. - Competence in the full range of extended Emergency Department nursing skills, including: - Independent requesting of X-rays. - Wound assessment and suturing. - Front door streaming and Emergency Department triage. - Significant experience in ambulance offload assessment, making rapid, safe and effective decisions to prioritise patients and maintain patient flow. - Experience coordinating clinical areas within the Emergency Department, demonstrating the ability to prioritise workload, manage patient flow, allocate resources and respond effectively to changing operational pressures. - A sound understanding of Emergency Department performance indicators and operational metrics, including patient flow, ambulance handover performance, time-critical pathways and the 4-hour standard, with the ability to use these to support safe, high-quality patient care while reducing delays and maintaining patient safety. - The ability to assess complex clinical presentations quickly, recognising deterioration, initiating appropriate interventions and escalating concerns promptly. - Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to work effectively alongside consultants, specialty doctors, ACPs, nurses, paramedics, therapists, healthcare support workers and operational teams across all grades. - Proven ability to remain calm, organised and clinically focused while managing multiple patients, competing priorities and frequent interruptions within an exceptionally busy department. - Strong leadership skills with the confidence to coordinate clinical areas, support colleagues, make timely decisions and foster a positive, collaborative team culture. - A commitment to delivering compassionate, patient-centred care, even under pressure, while acting as a role model for professional standards and clinical excellence. ### 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 ### Education **Essential** - Registered nurse - Relevant speciality post registration qualification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Emergency department nursing competencies includingIndependent requesting of X-rays, Wound assessment and suturing, Front door streaming and Emergency Department triage. - A sound understanding of Emergency Department performance indicators and operational metrics. - A sound understanding or research and clinical governance ### Experience **Essential** - 3 years post graduate experience - A minimum of 3 years post reg experience in ED ### Personal qualities **Essential** - Excellent communication skills - Able to demonstrate leadership skills - Able to work and lead others within a diverse community of patients & health care professionals ## Documents - [band 6 (pdf, 824.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10520781) - [dbs charges information (pdf, 71.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3004) - [dbs charges information (pdf, 148.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2398) ## 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.