Junior Sister/ Charge Nurse in Camberley inCamberley PUBLISHED TUE 15 APR 2025 Jump to job information section

Job Summary

We are seeking a confident, experienced, and committed Sister/Charge Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team at Parkside, a private patient unit within Frimley Park Hospital. This 26-bed facility offers single en suite rooms and provides care across a wide range of specialities, giving staff the unique opportunity to work with diverse patient groups and specialist teams, while being part of an acute NHS Foundation Trust.

In this key leadership role, you will work closely with the Senior Sister to help drive high standards of patient care and service delivery. You'll play a vital part in shaping clinical practices, mentoring staff, and ensuring excellence in patient experience. In return, we offer a comprehensive orientation and access to a range of management and leadership development opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated nurse leader who thrives in a dynamic clinical environment and is passionate about both patient care and staff development.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible and accountable for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision.
• To assist the Senior Sister in leading the ward team in providing 24 hour nursing and operational management whilst ensuring a high quality service with cost effective resources.
• To lead and monitor the performance and standards of care within the Nursing Team.
• To act a multi-disciplinary team leader taking the lead on projects as appropriate.
• In conjunction with the Ward Manager/Senior Charge Nurse and other Junior Sister/Charge Nurse, facilitate the development of the service and personal development of all nursing staff within the clinical area of responsibility
• To deputise for the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in their absence, attending appropriate meetings, maintaining an organised and structured workforce.
  
  

About Us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Date posted

11 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£39,205 to £47,a year per annum INCL HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-JLM455

Job locations

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Camberley

GU16 7UJ

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Professional Clinical Role

• Responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision.
• On a shift-by-shift basis, take responsibility for a case-load of patients, where the post-holder is the named nurse. Co-ordinate and monitor the progress of patients along their critical pathway, reporting any variance from the pathway. Take named responsibility for co-ordinating individual patients discharge.
• Ensure that all nursing practice within the clinical area complies with Trust Nursing policies and procedures.
• To comply at all times with the NMC Code (2.
• To communicate effectively and liaise with all health care staff as appropriate.
• To encourage and maintain good relationships with Medical Staff and other members of the Primary care & Social Services teams in order to provide the best care.
• Consolidate and extend own clinical skills in all aspects of nursing, furthering own professional knowledge in a rapidly changing environment.
• To ensure that all issues relating to the implementation of clinical governance are addressed on the unit. This includes maintaining and reviewing the standards of care on a regular basis, implementing changes to improve the service where necessary following complaints, ensuring systems are in place to manage all risk and to regulate professional practice. All staff must be made aware of their own individual responsibilities as regards clinical governance.
• Provide clinical leadership and development support to the nursing team.
• Where issues of clinical competence are identified, work with the Ward Manager to overcome them.
• Pro-actively respond to potential complaints, to prevent formal complaints from occurring.
• To continue to develop services within the ward in conjunction with Matron and Senior Sister.
• Represent the department at committees and meetings.
  
  

Practice Development

• To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of nursing practice within the clinical area, ensuring that it is evidence-based. In conjunction with the ward team, participate in the development of action plans which aim to enhance the quality of practice using the results of audits undertaken. Participate in the evaluation of the changes made in practice.
• To assist the Senior Sister in the implementation of the Trust Nursing & Midwifery strategy and Corporate Objectives within the clinical area, and monitor its impact on practice.
  
  

Managerial Role

• To deputise for the Senior Sister as required. This may involve taking on the leadership of specific projects, attending meetings, and enhancing the service offered to patients.
• To provide clinical and managerial leadership and guidance to the Nursing team.
• To regularly co-ordinate the shift as the nurse in charge as per Trust Guidelines. Withi