Job overview
At Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, we are on a mission to grow our Children Hospital and make it the best Neuro-musculoskeletal provider for Children and Young People.
Are you excited with service development and improvement? Are you ready to take your nursing leadership career to the next level with demanding yet rewarding responsibility? Are you ready to lead and champion a team where Children and young people's needs are at the heart of everything they do? Do you thrive in a busy yet effective clinical environment? Then it’s an exciting time to join our dynamic and innovative team as Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
Our team include senior clinical and management staff, Neuro-musculoskeletal and orthopaedic Surgeons, Paediatricians, clinical educator and therapists. We share collective responsibility of delivering high quality, safe and effective care to Children, Young people and their families in a 27 bedded ward. Our specialities include spinal deformity, spinal injury rehabilitation, sarcoma, metabolic bone diseases, and upper and lower limb reconstruction.
While a passion for the care that Children and Young people receive is essential, we would welcome both paediatric and adult nurses applications, based on experience.
You will have opportunities to develop and further improve your leadership skills and knowledge through formal and informal education, networking, coaching and mentoring.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of successful candidate include:
- To provide clinical leadership and positive role model to their team; creating and maintaining positive work environment and thus facilitates positive staff experiences.
- To act as expert practitioner in the nursing care of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions to ensure provision of high- quality nursing care to children, young people and families.
- To ensure responsiveness to care and maintain positive experience for children, young people and families.
- To maintain safe, effective and efficient management of the department within allocated resources.
- To promote can do attitude for continual improvement of care through Quality improvement initiatives, research and evidence-based practice.
- To undertake delegated responsibility for the department in the absence of Matron and Associate Chief Nurse for Children and young people.
- To be familiar with, adopt and lead the team with the principles of the NHS Chief Nursing Officers vision for Compassion in Practice (NHS Commissioning Board Dec 2012).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and Person specification, for more information on the Job responsibilities and Role requirements.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit.
- Awareness of Trust’s and NHS initiatives
- Awareness of and application of relevant legislation, policies, procedures and professional issues.
- NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Equality, diversity and inclusion practice
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Commitment to clinical supervision.
- Knowledge of the individuals’ responsibility towards health and safety.
- Awareness of the structure and organisation of the wider Customer care and complaints handling.
- Awareness of research methods
Desirable
- NHS organisation and its service developments.
- Application of the NHS Plan in practice
Experience
Essential
- Significant clinical experience of the speciality
- Team leadership and supervision
- People and performance management
- Change management
- Clinical IT systems
- Implementing clinical guidelines, policies and procedures including safeguarding children processes
Desirable
- Working with PAS
- Children's high Dependency Nursing experience
- Audit and research
- Leading quality improvement project
Qualifications
Essential
- RSCN/RN Child registered with active NMC registration.
- Educated to first Degree or working toward it.
- Post registration training that is relevant to area of practice.
- Preparation for Mentorship course or equivalent.
- EPLS/HDU/Care of Critically ill Children or working towards it.
- Evidence of continued professional development plan.
Desirable
- Leadership course / development programme
- APLS
- Working towards PG dip or Masters Programme
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This advert is for Ward Manager/Senior Sister/Charge Nurse with Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust in Stanmore, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £55,524 - £62,652 Per annum inclusive of HCAs. The contract type is Permanent: N/A. The application deadline is 26 Jun 2026.
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