Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 218-NM-B6-7015896
- Employer
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- UHCW NHS Trust
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Sister/Charge Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The Clinical Sister in the Elderly Ward is a senior nursing role responsible for overseeing the delivery of high-quality care to elderly patients. This position involves leading a team of nursing staff and healthcare staff, ensuring the implementation of best practices in geriatric care, compassionate care, enhancing patients' overall experience in the hospital setting.
Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
Main duties of the job
Accountable for own actions in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice.
Supervise and support nursing staff, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance evaluations. Foster a positive team environment focused on patient-centred care.
Responsible for identifying and assessing complex clinical and non-clinical issues, implementing resolutions and monitoring/auditing outcomes.
Work alongside the ward manager and in collaboration with other healthcare professionals to achieve customer satisfaction.
Provide emotional support and education to patients and their families, ensuring they understand care plans and treatment options.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities including HR resource, and bleep-holder responsibilities as appropriate for example, sickness and absence, skill mix for shift patterns, complaints.
2.Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including complex patient monitoring; equipment management and frequent administration of invasive tests/procedures
3.Develop and educate staff, participating in supervision, mentorship and appraisal as required.
4. Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce, and resource data available.
5. Manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need, referring to a senior member of
staff where appropriate e.g. in an unexpected event.
For further details please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
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Desirable criteria
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Experience
Essential criteria
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Desirable criteria
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Knowledge
Essential criteria
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Desirable criteria
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Skills
Essential criteria
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mrs Nilam Patel
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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