Ward Sister/Charge Nurse

Ward Sister/Charge Nurse - Ward 14A

The closing date is 19 September 2025

Are you a passionate and dedicated nurse? We are looking for an experienced band 5 nurse with NHS experience.

As a band 6 sister you will lead and mentor a team of dedicated nurses ensuring high standards of care in our fast paced environment. If you are looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to develop your management skills and share your clinical knowledge and experience with our team.

You will have the opportunity to showcase your excellent communication skills and work within an orthopaedic and surgical team.

We will ensure that you are well supported and given relevant training opportunities to develop and enhance your own leadership skills. This is the perfect chance for any aspiring band 6 nurse waiting for the right post.

Main duties of the job

On a day-to-day basis you will be responsible for managing and co-ordinating the care of the patients, the role combines line management for the nurses within your delegated team and ensure mechanisms and processes are in place and maintained.

You will also act as a source of specialist and expert nursing knowledge and provide support and advice to the wider team.

About us

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Job responsibilities

Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

Proposed Interview date: 3rd October 2025

Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Person SpecificationQualifications

• Registered Nurse Diploma / degree level or equivalent experience
• Current NMC Registration
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Leadership training or qualification (minimum Level 3 ILM or equivalent) or working towards

Knowledge and Experience

• Able to demonstrate knowledge of NMC professional standards for practice contained within the code
• Experience of leading a team in a clinical environment
• Research awareness and commitment to evidence-based practice
• Experience of clinical risk assessment & management of identified risk
• Understanding key features of Clinical governance
• Knowledge of audit & audit procedures

Skills and Abilities

• Up to date clinical skills in order to ensure quality of services being provided by ward
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent organisational skills - prioritise and coordinate own workload
• Able to act as a leader, effectively managing staff in the department
• Ability to act as a change agent
• Ability to co-ordinate & liaise with MDT members
• Computer literacy eg experience of electronic patient record

Other

• Frequent sitting or standing in a restricted position; occasional moderate effort for several short period
• Frequent concentration, work pattern unpredictable Concentration for patient clinical work
• Occasional distressing / highly distressing or emotional circumstances. Deals with patient complaints, conveys unwelcome news, complaints, concerns arising from incident communicated to patients and relatives
• Working in ward environment providing direct clinical care
• Potential blood or body fluids exposure

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.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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