Band 7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Closing date: 22 February 2026

Band 7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and forward thinking senior nurse to lead and manage our 31 bedded elective surgical ward at Solihull. The ward provides post operative care to Urology, Colorectal, Breast & Plastics, Bariatric and Upper GI patients.

This is an exciting opportunity for a confident clinical leader who is passionate about delivering exceptional patient care, driving service improvement, and supporting the development of a skilled nursing workforce.

As a Senior Sister / Charge Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth, safe, and effective running of our surgical ward. You'll lead by example, inspire excellence, and foster a culture where compassionate, evidence based care thrives.

To be considered for the role you should be an experienced Registered Nurse, with substantial experience at Band 6.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a confident, committed, visible clinical leader who is driven by challenges and demonstrates personal resilience when working in a fast moving and changing care environment. You should have experience of staff change management, leading by example, motivating, and empowering your team to ensure consistently high standards of care are set and delivered.

Demonstrating critical analysis and decision making skills, leading the delivery of consistent high standards of evidence based care, influencing and facilitating change within the ward.

Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical area ensuring that high quality, current evidence based nursing care underpins all actions and interactions with patients.

Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through effective use and integration of evidence base practice, setting and implementing and monitoring evidence based standards of care, policies, procedures and protocols through regular audit. Be accountable in ensuring all clinical, documentation and activity and flow audits are completed and submitted in a timely manner, make changes to care delivery as required to sustain improvement practice standards.

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 staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neuro diverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered Adult Nurse on NMC register
• Completion of a relevant post registration specialist course or experience

Experience

• 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.
• • Leadership
  • Team building
  • Managing Resources
  • Time management
  • Clinical governance
  • Audit and research
  • Workforce planning / management
  • NHS policy and political awareness
  • Knowledge of clinical governance

Additional Criteria

• Demonstrates the key strengths and motivators for relating to others.
• Competence in expanded clinical practice associated with the role.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Proven ability to analyse data and identify data trends.
• Able to effectively present information to groups / health care professionals.
• Ability to work under pressure across competing demands.
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude.
• Approachable and friendly.
• Supportive.
• Flexible.
• Well organised.
• Ability to delegate and supervise.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust