Senior Sister​/Charge Nurse, Medicine

Band 7 – Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, Medicine

Full‑time, Permanent, 37.5 hours per week. Working hours Monday to Friday 07:15–15:05 (flexible working considered). Salary £50,008 – £56,908 per annum. Job
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An exciting opportunity for a leader to join the Division of Medicine at West Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust. The Senior Nurse/Charge Nurse will lead a medicine ward, ensuring safe, high‑quality, person‑centred care.

• Lead and manage the performance of the team within a medicine ward, enhancing patient experience and improving clinical outcomes.
• Take day‑to‑day responsibility for safe, effective, person‑centred care and for ensuring compliance with mandatory training.
• Manage the clinical area’s resources, prioritise workloads and use initiative in a fast‑paced environment.
• Promote dignity, patient safety and a positive patient and carer experience across the ward.
• Act as a visible, proactive, and accessible leader and clinical resource for the multidisciplinary team.
• Support the personal and professional development of nursing staff and encourage ongoing learning and development.
• Contribute to organisational priorities such as improved patient flow, reduced sickness absence, staff retention, and safe workforce deployment.
• Participate actively in patient safety and quality improvement initiatives, including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).
• Foster innovation and promote diversity, inclusion and equality within the workplace.

• Registered General Nurse.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Degree in Nursing or related subject, or working towards one.
• Knowledge of negotiating and motivating groups and individuals to deliver on agreed objectives.
• Understanding and experience of managing casemix and skillmix according to competing clinical priorities.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of decisions made in a variety of clinical settings, ensuring user safety is at the forefront of planning.
• Health & safety agenda.
• Hospital cleanliness standards.
• Nursing agenda.
• Understanding and some experience of clinical governance processes in relation to speciality.
• Experience as Band 6 within speciality.
• Line management of staff.
• Management of complaints and local resolution.
• You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
• This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) and Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service is required.

Compliance with UK professional registration required.