Band 6 Paediatric Charge Nurse​/Sister

Job summary

To assist in the creation of a welcoming, caring and safe environment for children and families.

We are looking an enthusiastic, motivated, children's nurse who enjoys working within a team of dedicated staff.

The assessment of child and family care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards of care as a shift leader or deputy shift leader

To take charge of the paediatric area in the absence of the person who has continuing responsibility or be a senior nurse on shift.

For this Sister/Charge Nurse post, we require an experienced candidate who is dedicated to the Child and Family advocating for high standards of care while in hospital and ensuring the child's discharge is timely and effective.

Ifor ward is a busy general paediatric unit with children from 0-18 years providing a service for children who require acute medical and surgical care. We care for children with a varied range of conditions including haematology, oncology, infectious diseases, respiratory, surgical, orthopaedic, complex care and social problems.

You will also have an opportunity to develop oncology and haematological skills as we are a shared care POSCU. We have a two-bedded high dependency unit with a dedicated paediatric high dependency team. We have Clinical Nurse Specialists available for expert advice in paediatric diabetes, sickle cell, allergy, asthma and oncology as well as a Nurse Consultant.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Date posted: 10 September 2026

Pay scheme:
Agenda for change

Band:
Band 6

Salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year per annum including HCAS

Contract:

Fixed term

Duration: 10 months

Working pattern:
Full-time

Reference number: 220-WHT-8272945

Job locations:
Whittington Health, Magdala Avenue, London, N19 5NF
, United Kingdom

Clinical duties:

• To set, monitor and maintain the highest standards of nursing care for the children with low and high dependency needs.
• Standards should be:
  Acceptable, Achievable, Observable, Measurable
• To assess, develop, implement and evaluate individual programmes of nursing care, supervising the programmes of care given by junior staff. This should be evidence based.
• To actively support and promote the involvement of parents and carers in the management evaluation of care, by working together in partnership.
• To act in a consultative capacity on paediatric matters when required.
• To establish and maintain effective communication with nursing, medical, paramedical and ancillary colleagues in order to provide optimum child/family care.
• To establish and maintain effective communication with the parents and relatives of the children to ensure that they have every assistance and support to enable them to cope with their childs illness and hospitalisation.
• To provide support and counseling for children, their parents and nursing staff as appropriate.
• To liaise internally and externally with key staff in…