Deputy Ward Sister/Charge Nurse
Join our dynamic team as a Band 6 deputy Sister/Charge Nurse in the Children and Young People’s Emergency Department at one of the UK’s largest paediatric trauma centres. This senior leadership role offers the chance to lead a skilled nursing team in a fast-paced environment, caring for children and young people with acute illness, injury, major trauma, mental health concerns, and life-threatening emergencies.
You will provide visible clinical leadership, support patient flow, ensure compliance with policies, and drive quality improvement and service development initiatives. Mentoring, supervising, and developing staff is key, alongside maintaining governance, safety standards, and operational efficiency.
We offer professional development opportunities to enhance leadership, management, and advanced clinical skills. Nottingham Children’s Hospital holds ANCC Pathway to Excellence accreditation—the only children’s hospital in Europe with this distinction—reflecting our commitment to staff engagement, excellence, and innovation. If you are an experienced paediatric emergency nurse with a passion for leadership and high-quality care, we welcome your application.
As Deputy Charge Nurse in the CYPED, you will provide senior clinical and operational leadership to ensure safe, effective, and compassionate care. You will maintain high standards of nursing practice, patient safety, and quality across the department.
You will lead the delivery of evidence-based care, working with the wider MDT to identify challenges affecting care quality and develop action plans to address gaps. Patient pathways and experiences will be regularly evaluated to ensure effectiveness and satisfaction.
Acting as the senior clinical point of contact, you will manage deteriorating patients, safeguarding concerns, and complex or high-risk cases. You will oversee patient flow, triage, and resource allocation to support timely and efficient care delivery and help achieve national and local performance standards.
You will supervise, support, and mentor the nursing workforce, promoting professional development, competence, and wellbeing. In partnership with the senior leadership team, you will manage staffing, shift coordination, sickness management, and maintain appropriate senior nurse presence.
The role includes supporting audits, quality improvement, and service development initiatives, ensuring learning is embedded and improvements sustained. You will also provide guidance and reassurance to patients, families, and staff, representing the patient and family voice in decision-making.
The post requires working a full range of shifts, including nights and weekends.
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Leanne Dutton Job title: Matron Email address: leanne.dutton1@nhs.net Telephone number: 07812278139
For more information / details contact CYPED Matron Leanne Dutton
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