QR code linking to this job posting Sister/ Charge Nurse in Borehamwood inBorehamwood PUBLISHED FRI 23 MAY 2025

Band 6: £37,338 to £44,962 a year  PERMANENT  GOOD SALARY 

NHS Blood and Transplant

At NHS Blood & Transplant we help people to do something extraordinary - donate blood, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save and enhance lives. We play a unique and special role in the NHS, and it takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives.

As a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse, you will be joining one of our front-line teams that covers Hertfordshire and the surrounding areas including South Staffordshire and the Black Country. You will be travelling throughout the region to mobile sessions- so your daily workplace will rarely look the same.

Joining us as a Donor-facing Band 6 Nurse, you will be responsible for leading a team of Donor Carers and Donor Care Supervisors, ensuring they are motivated, well-trained, and capable of delivering excellent care to our donors.

You don't need prior experience of working as a session nurse, you will have access to a full training programme and supernumerary period.

You will be expected to foster a positive working environment, provide ongoing training, and support, and address any team issues or concerns that arise.

You will use your clinical expertise and judgment to assess whether potential donors meet the necessary health and safety criteria for blood donation. This includes considering the donor's medical history, current health status, and any other relevant factors. This role requires strong leadership skills, clinical expertise, and a deep understanding of regulatory requirements.

You'll be responsible for:

  • Ensuring that the team delivers exceptional care while making critical decisions that affect donor safety and the overall quality of the service.
  • Taking clinical responsibility for ensuring the safe assessment and blood donation of our donors.
  • Being accountable for the safe running of a blood donation session. Taking responsibility for ensuring an excellent donor experience.
  • Maintaining the competency and skills of your team and yourself. Being able to adapt communication styles for difficult conversations.
  • Maintaining your professional development to help us deliver improvements to our practice.
Your working hours will be on a shift basis but, the normal hours for this role are 5 days per week/10 days per fortnight for full time but we also have part-time working available. The team collect blood through all 7 days of the week.

About us

Early shifts usually start at 7am and finish 17:30. Late shifts usually start at 10:45am and finish 21:30, this will be 9.5 hour days. Weekend and bank holiday working will be required.

You can expect to work some long hours, but you wont be working more than five days a week- and never any nights! Our Sister/Charge Nurses work in a fast moving and variable environment and play an essential role in the collection of blood and blood products, directly contributing to saving and improving patients lives.

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

What we offer:

  • At NHSBT, all of our nursing teams are supported by an excellent framework of practice development, offering ongoing professional development to enable us to have a strong sense of professional pride whilst we deliver a safe and quality product to our hospitals and the best standard of care to our service users.
  • Focused induction and training programme with supernumerary period.
  • Professional development including:
NHSBT e-learning hub of online learning resources

Leadership and Management programmes.

Corporate Nursing Team who facilitates various professional development opportunities specific to Nursing, including Clinical Leadership, Clinical Supervision and Professional Nurse Advocates (PNAs).

NHSBT Nursing Council, providing a forum to share best practice, support and evaluate implementation of our NHSBT Nursing Strategy.

Potential funding opportunities for external studies where this has been identified during your Personal Development Review.

Apprenticeships, work-based learning programmes.

  • No night shifts and TOIL (Time of in lieu). NHSBT also promotes flexible working, where the role will allow.
  • Opportunity to work within other specialisms within our organisation such as Therapeutic Apheresis Services or Organ Donation.
  • Minimum 27 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank/public holidays dependent on length of service
  • NHS Pension Scheme - defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns). Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: https://jobsincare.com/job/jbnsMxL2Tggc If you are shortlisted for this role, we strongly recommend you attend in person for a blood collection session tour so we can provide you with a more in-depth understanding of this role. Please note that our travel policy does not allow for the payment of travel expenses.

This vacancy will close at 23:59pm on Wednesday 4th June 2025. Interviews are anticipated to be held W/C 9th June. For informal enquiries please contact: Sally Amos, Area Matron,