Children's ED - Junior Sister / Charge Nurse

Overview

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Children's Emergency Department (Horton General Hospital) is recruiting a band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse. The closing date is 08 October 2025.

Job title: Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse - Children's Emergency Department

The Children's Emergency Department at The Horton General Hospital currently has a vacancy for a Children's Junior Sister/Charge Nurse. We are a friendly team of skilled practitioners who take pride in delivering high-quality care in a fast-paced and demanding environment. We value providing excellent care to the most vulnerable patients, at times of high stress for them and their families. We are looking to recruit nurses who are highly skilled and motivated, proactive and keen to continue developing their career in Emergency Medicine. You will need to be an enthusiastic individual with good communication and leadership skills alongside a passion for delivering compassionate, high-quality care as part of a large multi-disciplinary team.

We offer a supportive environment with a strong commitment to professional development and career progression. Previous experience working in an Emergency Department is essential.

Please note that this advert may close early if a high volume of applications are received.

Main duties of the job

The overall purpose of this role is to:

• To act as the shift co-coordinator on a day-to-day basis, providing supervision and support to the multi-disciplinary team.
• Develop, manage and monitor the performance of a team of nurses, ensuring that the highest standards of care and safety are achieved and maintained at all times.
• Promote effective communication and teamwork at all levels.
• Demonstrate clinical leadership skills and evidence of specialist knowledge.
• Assist the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in management of staff within the Emergency Department including human resource management, clinical governance and risk management.
• Contribute toward the strategic and operational development of the department.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here: ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information. Please contact us if you have any questions or would like an informal visit before applying.

Person Specification Education/training/experience

• Registered Paediatric Nurse
• Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of an ongoing NMC revalidation.
• Evidence of achievement on a Nursing and Midwifery, (NMC) approved Mentorship qualification.
• Minimum of 3 years acute care registered nurse experience.
• UK recognised Degree in Nursing relevant to post.
• Post-graduate qualification related to an area of practice.

Leadership and Management

• Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate.
• Demonstrates ability to maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with team leaders/ward manager/unit co-ordinator.
• Acts as a role model and is able to lead by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
• Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective care delivery.
• Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety.
• Previous experience of managing clinical incidents and complaints.
• Previous experience in the relevant specialty.
• Previous substantive management experience of a specific clinical area.

Clinical Practice

• Articulate and knowledgeable about the skills needed to deliver a high standard of care in the area of practice.
• Able to work under own initiative within boundaries of role.
• Demonstrates awareness of importance of working as part of a team.
• Able to document observations, results, decisions and actions effectively in patient's notes and communicate these effectively to appropriate members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Able to communicate effectively with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Able to proactively contribute to the education of learners and non-registered and less experienced staff.
• Demonstrates ability to manage, direct and evaluate the nursing care for a defined caseload of patients.
• Competent to administer intravenous medicines.
• Competent in central venous access management.

Values and Behaviours

• Able to demonstrate the ability to put patients at the heart of what you do and recognise different needs by encouraging a spirit of support, integrity, respect and teamwork.
• Shows pride in the quality of care they provide for patients and learning from successes and setbacks.
• Able to deliver a high standard of care for patients and always striving to improve through change and innovation.
• Able to proactively support colleagues in the delivery of care commensurate with Trust values and behaviours.

Improving Quality and Practice

• Understanding of professional and current issues related to area of practice.
• Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence nursing practice relating to the area of clinical practice, management education and research.
• Able to identify own learning needs and ensure ongoing professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments.
• Able to lead the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.
• Demonstrates ability to question and challenge nursing practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.
• Previous evidence of leadership within practice and the multi-disciplinary team.
• Recognition as having abilities for innovation within their sphere of practice.

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.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year