Hospital Nursing Team Deputy Sister

Hospital at Home Nursing Team Deputy Sister

The closing date is 01 March 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6, Deputy Manager on the Hospital at Home Nursing team. The team works to an agreed model within Family Services to provide paediatric expertise when providing care to babies, children and young people. Bringing added protection and oversight of the paediatric guidelines and protocols to ensure a high level of care to BCYP accessing emergency care.

The Deputy role covers 15 hours over the month preferably in 2 x 7.5 hour shifts. You will need to be able to lead by example and provide both clinical and managerial support. Assist the Hospital at Home Manager/Senior Sister to ensure the Hospital at Home Nursing Team are led effectively. Lead with the vision of enhancing quality and safety of patient care.

The post holder will be expected to deputise which may occasionally include cross site working in the absence of the Ward Manager.

There will be a Band 7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse supervisory post to oversee the management of this team and provide clinical expertise for children being cared for in an ECC.

• Deputise for the department Sister/Charge Nurse in their absence.
• Create an environment that is based on trust, open communication, creative thinking and a cohesive team.
• Undertake the management of the care of a group of patients over the period of the shift, organising appropriate support services.
• Assist the Sister/Charge Nurse in the management of staffing resources to match peak clinical activity with appropriate staffing levels.
• Assist in maintaining the department/ward budget as delegated by the Sister/Charge Nurse. Ensure ward stock levels are kept at an appropriate level minimising wastage and purchasing cost effectively.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work‑life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work‑life balance or a multi‑role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work‑life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment…