Sister / Charge Nurse

Sister / Charge Nurse

Job Summary: You will be responsible for leading a team of Healthcare Assistants and Donor Care Supervisors, ensuring they are motivated, well trained, and capable of delivering excellent care. You will foster a positive working environment, provide ongoing training and support, and address any team issues or concerns that arise. Using your clinical expertise and judgment, you will assess whether potential donors meet the necessary health and safety criteria for blood donation, considering donor medical history, current health status and other relevant factors. You will ensure that the team delivers exceptional care while making critical decisions that affect donor safety and the overall quality of the service.

Main duties of the job

• Take clinical responsibility for ensuring the safe assessment and blood donation of our donors.
• Be accountable for the safe running of a blood donation session.
• Ensure an excellent donor experience.
• Maintain the competency and skills of your team and yourself.
• Adapt communication styles for difficult conversations.
• Maintain your professional development to help us deliver improvements to our practice.

Working hours: Shift basis (37.5 hours per fortnight). Shifts are 9.5 hour days, worked between approximately 08:00 and 21:30.

Location: Sessions are based throughout Wolverhampton, the Black Country, and South Staffordshire. You will need your own vehicle to travel to the session and claim mileage expenses.

About You Experience and Knowledge

• Demonstrate leadership qualities and knowledge of best practice principles to deliver high quality care.
• Have experience supporting the professional development of others.
• Have an understanding of clinical audit and research.
• Have experience supporting improvements and change in practice.
• Have awareness of patient safety initiatives and risk management.
• Have experience working with information technology such as hand held devices and Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Qualifications and Training

• Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration (maintained) as Registered Nurse - Adult.
• Hold a full and valid UK driving licence with no more than 6 points.

About Us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends and relatives across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary - donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues or stem cells.

What we offer

• No night shifts.
• TOIL (Time off in Lieu).
• Opportunities to work in other areas/specialisms.
• Facilitating donation.
• Flexible working options - we promote flexible working where the role allows and are happy to discuss what flexibility might look like for you.
• Generous annual leave - 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years' service and to 33 days after 10 years.
• Inclusive pension scheme - the NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme.
• Supportive learning culture - a culture of continuous learning with programmes such as Thrive and a wide range of activities to support personal and professional growth.
• Health and wellbeing support - confidential services including occupational health, employee assistance programme and wellbeing resources, with tailored workplace adjustments where possible.

Disability Confident Employer

We welcome applications from disabled candidates and will discuss adjustments that may help you during the recruitment process.

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Tuesday 26th May 2026. The vacancy may close sooner than the advertised deadline if we receive a high volume of applications, so we recommend applying early.

The assessment process for this role will include a single interview to be held on Wednesday 3rd June 2026 - subject to confirmation.