Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	27 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 July 2025
Location:	317 Trustwide, NE1 4LP
Company:	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7310688/317-2025-25-016

Summary

Are you a passionate and experienced children’s nurse with a specialist interest in a medical investigation day unit? We are seeking a highly motivated Band 7 Sister/ Charge Nurse to lead and coordinate care within our regional medical day-case unit.

This is a unique opportunity to take on a senior clinical leadership role in a well-established multidisciplinary team, caring for children with a wide variety of conditions, endocrine, metabolic, respiratory, non-oncology haematology, oncology, renal, rheumatology and gastroenterology on a day case basis. This is a nurse led unit for children receiving complex and innovative therapies.

The Senior Sister / Charge Nurse have 24-hour accountability, including line managing, for their ward / department.

They must deliver quality nursing care by ensuring appropriate systems and processes are in place to ensure the continuity of safe and effective care at all times.
• Interview date: Thursday 24 July 2025
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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Demonstrate effective communication and provide a compassionate leadership approach, maintaining clinical expertise, management responsibilities and strategic oversight of the medical day unit within GNCH.

Act as a guardian for professional accountability and standards, ensuring professional practices in line with the requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and the Trust.



Ensure environmental standards and cleanliness are maintained in line with national and Trust Standards in the ward/department.



Effectively manage the ward/department nursing resource.

Provide evidence based care for all children and participate, as required, in advancing care with research.

Support and contribute to the development of patient care and nursing practice within the Directorate, contributing to Trust projects where required.



Ensure junior staff and students have appropriate supervision and support and are appropriately assessed.

Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

• Freeman Hospital

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)

• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)

• Newcastle Dental Hospital

• Newcastle Fertility Centre

• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

• Northern Genetics Service

• Cramlington Manor Walks

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle HospitalsandNewcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• The Senior Sister / Charge Nurse / Senior ODP has 24 hour accountability, including line managing, for their Theatre / Department. They must deliver quality care by ensuring appropriate systems and processes are in place to ensure the continuity of safe and effective care at all times.
• Deputises for Matron as required / appropriate

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.



As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.


This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Jul 2025

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