Sister/Charge Nurse

Overview

Go back University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Sister / Charge Nurse

The closing date is 06 October 2025

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 role on Ward 206, the trauma admission ward within Trauma and Orthopaedics.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join our management team, who possesses excellent communication and leadership skills, and promotes excellent quality of care, whilst supporting junior staff on the ward to do the same. The role will entail working weekends, bank holidays and nights to provide unit bleep cover.

The ideal applicant will have demonstrable experience within Trauma and Orthopaedics and ideally have experience working with orthopaedic trauma patients, pre and post op care, assessment of patients and complex discharge planning.

The successful applicant will show evidence of service improvement or innovation.

You will have the full support of the management team and your peers, enabling you to succeed in this role.

Main duties of the job

The majority of your role will be clinical, and you will be a clinical lead on the ward supporting and mentoring junior members of the team with your experience and knowledge.

The job will also entail all aspects of people/staff management, for example, ensuring staff wellbeing, completing appraisals, dealing with conflict and more.

You will be expected to complete audits, rosters, reports, attend meetings and liaise with all members of the MDT as well as many other tasks.

Closing date of applications: 6 October 2025

Interview date: 20 October 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification Registered Nurse

• NMC Qualification
• Evidence of mentoring students
• Evidence of teaching/training colleagues
• Demonstrable post registration experience
• Demonstrable experience within an acute hospitable setting
• Evidence of continued learning post registration
• Evidence of leadership qualities and/or training

Experience

• Demonstrable experience within orthopaedics
• Experienced in complex wound management
• Experienced in complex plans of care

Knowledge of ward management

• Knowledge of ward and people management
• Knowledge of audits and implementing change
• Evidence of undertaking appraisals/audits
• Evidence of making/supporting change

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 of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust