Band 7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse Cystic Fibrosis Unit
Requirements
Must be a Registered Adult Nurse on the NMC register with substantial clinical experience in a complex healthcare setting and a proven track record in team leadership. Requires evidence of mentorship training and the ability to manage pay and non-pay resources.
Job Description
Are you an experienced nurse leader looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in a highly specialised service? We are seeking an exceptional Senior Sister/Charge Nurse to lead Ward 26, home to established Regional Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centres in the West Midlands.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a passionate multidisciplinary team dedicated to delivering outstanding care for adults living with cystic fibrosis and complex respiratory conditions. As Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, you will provide visible clinical and operational leadership, ensuring the highest standards of patient care, safety, quality, and patient experience.
You will be responsible for leading and developing a skilled nursing workforce, managing day-to-day ward operations, overseeing patient flow, supporting staff wellbeing, and driving continuous quality improvement. Working closely with consultants, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists, and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing this specialist regional service.
We are looking for an inspirational leader who is passionate about delivering excellence, empowering teams, and creating a positive ward culture. You will have significant post-registration experience, strong clinical credibility, excellent communication skills, and a proven ability to lead teams through change and service improvement.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
You will lead the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality care for patients with cystic fibrosis and other complex respiratory conditions, ensuring care is responsive, evidence-based, and centred around the needs of patients and their families.
You will oversee the day-to-day management of the ward, coordinating patient flow, staffing, bed capacity, and resources to ensure the service operates efficiently and safely. Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, you will support the achievement of operational and clinical objectives while maintaining exceptional standards of patient care.
A key aspect of the role will be supporting, developing, and inspiring the nursing workforce through coaching, mentorship, supervision, appraisal, and professional development opportunities. You will foster a positive and inclusive culture that promotes staff wellbeing, engagement, learning, and continuous improvement.
The successful candidate will lead quality improvement initiatives, support patient safety programmes, and contribute to clinical governance activities to enhance patient outcomes and experience. You will ensure compliance with Trust policies, professional standards, and regulatory requirements while championing excellence in nursing practice
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Adult Nurse on NMC register.
- Completion of relevant post registration course or experience e.g. Respiratory
- Evidence of Mentorship training
- Evidence or working towards Health care management / Leadership Qualification
- Evidence or working towards teaching/education module
Essential
- Professional Portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
- Substantial relevant and recent clinical experience within a complex health care setting or Acute NHS setting working as a deputy Manager Band 6 position including the supervision and education of junior staff/ students .
- Can demonstrate understanding / experience / in practice based supervision / assessment as detailed in the Nursing & Midwifery Council ( NMC ) standards for student supervision and assessment
- Demonstrable current, recent experience of team leadership and management within the healthcare setting.
- Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with the clinical service.
- Evidence of effective multi-professional working.
- Experience of being a mentor
- Demonstration of a significant contribution to innovative practice or change management
- Experience in interviewing and selection of staff
- Experience in learning from incidents /complaints and supporting changes in practice
- Demonstrate an ability, experience, passion in the following areas. (E )
oTeam building
oManaging Resources
oTime management
oRole modelling
oChange management/ clinical developments
oClinical governance
oAudit and research
oWorkforce planning / management
oNHS policy and political awareness
oKnowledge of clinical governance
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Approachable and friendly
- Supportive
- Flexible
- Well organised
- Good communicator
- Ability to delegate and supervise
- Willingness to work core shift patterns for the area Monday to Friday with occasional out of hours /weekend working
- Undertake a range of shift patterns to cover 24/7 period when working as part of a peer group with occasions of out of hours / weekend working
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Kristine Ann Canal
kristine.canal@uhb.nhs.uk
01214240353
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
Contract
Secondment
Duration
12 Month(s)
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9019048
Job locations
Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green E
Birmingham
West Midlands
B9 5SS
Attachments
Job Description
Band 7 Senior Sister or Charge Nurse (2)_Kristine Canal JD PS .pdf – 538KB Opens in a new window
Education
Skills
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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