# Ward Sister/Charge Nurse Odstock Ward

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Salisbury District Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Charge nurse
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata if part time
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-29T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15T14:05:13.383Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Wiltshire/Salisbury/Salisbury_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Burns/Burns-v8264819
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8264819?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Odstock ward is a regional burns and plastics department, and part of a national network providing specialist nursing care.

The right candidate will bring up-to-date burns and plastics expertise, help with referrals, work closely with the trauma coordination team to triage, signpost, and potentially admit patients straight to the ward, and deliver top-quality care in the inpatient setting while supporting the team.

We actively encourage personal growth with in-house training, apprenticeships, and university courses.

You’ll be working with a highly skilled and passionate multidisciplinary team—therapists, surgeons, dietitians, psychologists, and the safeguarding team—to rehabilitate, reconstruct, and support patients throughout their journey.

### Main duties of the job

As a registered, accountable, and autonomous nurse, the post holder will deliver high-quality, compassionate care to patients within the Burns Service, ensuring effective assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care. The post holder will act in accordance with the NMC Code, Trust values, and professional standards, providing clinical leadership, supporting staff development, and contributing to the safe and efficient management of the ward.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

### 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

### Experience

**Essential**

- Minimum 2 years’ NHS experience at B5 in secondary care in speciality
- Previous out-patient experience
- Post registration experience of working in an acute hospital setting.
- Experience of managing challenging situations to a positive outcome.

**Desirable**

- Experience of conducting appraisals and mentoring others
- Evidence of recruiting and inducting new staff
- Has been involved in the management of change and complaints within the department.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- NMC Current Registration
- Burns accredited Qualification such as EMSB
- Evidence of recent and continuing professional development relevant to the department.

**Desirable**

- Leadership Qualification

## Documents

- [facts about salisbury (pdf, 214.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1618)
- [ward sister/charge nurse odstock ward jd (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10646178)

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