What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sister/ Charge Nurse position at Freeman Hospital?
Employer heading
Sister/ Charge Nurse
Band 6
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job Overview
We have an exciting new post for a Band 6 Junior Sister/charge nurse to join our specialised team caring for patients with burn injuries. This is a new post to help support the ongoing implementation of a new outpatient clinic situated within our Burn Centre. The successful candidate will rotate between the clinic, assessing new burn trauma patients as well as follow up patients, and assisting the Senior Sister in leading a team of staff delivering a high standard of burn care, working within an extensive multi-disciplinary team.
The successful candidate will need to be well motivated, display leadership skills and be knowledgeable about all aspects of Burn Care. They will be required to engage in all forms of education to patients, nursing staff and all professionals who refer clients to our service.
We are a small but very dedicated team who are very proud of the service we provide and have a very low turnover of staff due to the value we place on them and the training we invest. Your role as a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse will be to maintain this team dynamic and subsequently patient satisfaction and outcome.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will assist the Senior Nurse on the Northern Regional burn Centre delivering a high standard of care to critically injured individuals. They will take charge of the Burn Centre regularly and lead a team of committed nurses delivering high quality safe and evidence-based burn care.
We are a Regional Burn Centre so care for all sizes and complexity of burn injured patients, the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the safe care of these patients, the performance and training of the nursing staff caring for them and the efficient running of the Burn Centre. As well as our inpatient ward we offer an outpatient clinic where the successful candidate would have responsibility for autonomously assessing and planning care for more minor injuries.
There will be an expectation within the role to undertake further education such as the Clinical skills and history taking qualification to assist in the assessment of these patients.
There will be an expectation for the successful candidate to maintain safe staffing utilizing systems such as Safecare and Allocate and be responsible for their maintenance.
The Burn Centre has a responsibility to provide training to any service who refers burns to us and there is an expectation with this role that the successful candidate will participate in this.
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Our Burn Centre Philosophy is :- We believe the individual with a burn injury, and their family, have the right to be cared for by a specialist team of committed and experienced staff, utilizing contemporary research and knowledge based skills. We will endeavor to create an environment of health and wellbeing through holistic care, enabling the individual to regain a fulfilled place in society.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Sophie Robson Job title Senior Sister Email address sophie.robson3@nhs.net Telephone number 0191 2825637
Sister/ Charge Nurse
Band 6
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job Overview
We have an exciting new post for a Band 6 Junior Sister/charge nurse to join our specialised team caring for patients with burn injuries. This is a new post to help support the ongoing implementation of a new outpatient clinic situated within our Burn Centre. The successful candidate will rotate between the clinic, assessing new burn trauma patients as well as follow up patients, and assisting the Senior Sister in leading a team of staff delivering a high standard of burn care, working within an extensive multi-disciplinary team.
The successful candidate will need to be well motivated, display leadership skills and be knowledgeable about all aspects of Burn Care. They will be required to engage in all forms of education to patients, nursing staff and all professionals who refer clients to our service.
We are a small but very dedicated team who are very proud of the service we provide and have a very low turnover of staff due to the value we place on them and the training we invest. Your role as a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse will be to maintain this team dynamic and subsequently patient satisfaction and outcome.
- Interview Date Tuesday 08 April 2025
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will assist the Senior Nurse on the Northern Regional burn Centre delivering a high standard of care to critically injured individuals. They will take charge of the Burn Centre regularly and lead a team of committed nurses delivering high quality safe and evidence-based burn care.
We are a Regional Burn Centre so care for all sizes and complexity of burn injured patients, the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the safe care of these patients, the performance and training of the nursing staff caring for them and the efficient running of the Burn Centre. As well as our inpatient ward we offer an outpatient clinic where the successful candidate would have responsibility for autonomously assessing and planning care for more minor injuries.
There will be an expectation within the role to undertake further education such as the Clinical skills and history taking qualification to assist in the assessment of these patients.
There will be an expectation for the successful candidate to maintain safe staffing utilizing systems such as Safecare and Allocate and be responsible for their maintenance.
The Burn Centre has a responsibility to provide training to any service who refers burns to us and there is an expectation with this role that the successful candidate will participate in this.
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
- Freeman Hospital
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
- Cramlington Manor Walks
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Our Burn Centre Philosophy is :- We believe the individual with a burn injury, and their family, have the right to be cared for by a specialist team of committed and experienced staff, utilizing contemporary research and knowledge based skills. We will endeavor to create an environment of health and wellbeing through holistic care, enabling the individual to regain a fulfilled place in society.
- To support the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse / Senior ODP, acting as a deputy when the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse / Senior ODP is absent.
- In areas within the organisation Nurses / ODPs may be banded at 6 by virtue clinical reasons, for example, critical care.
- Provide effective support and leadership to staff, patients and carers within the Theatre or Department.
- Act as role model, teacher and supervisor for junior staff and students.
- Ensure systems are in place to provide the continuity of safe effective care for patients at all times.
- Effective member of the multi-disciplinary team.
- May be required to participate in an On-call rota as required.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch) / Operating Department Practitioner
- Current NMC / HCPC registration
- Diploma in a health related subject, prepared to take degree level study
- Specialist qualification if relevant to role or previous experience
- Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for student supervision and assessment (formally Mentorship)
- Degree in health related subject
- Relevant specialist qualification
Essential criteria
- Previous post registration experience which must be relevant and recent
- Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development
- Understanding of professional accountability in a leadership role
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- Has understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding
- Audit / research experience
- Relevant clinical skills relating to the specialty e.g. cannulation / IV drug administration / anaesthetic skills appropriate to speciality
Essential criteria
- Good IT skills
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
- JD & PS (PDF, 614.9KB)
- Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB)
- Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Sophie Robson Job title Senior Sister Email address sophie.robson3@nhs.net Telephone number 0191 2825637
