Junior Sister/ Charge Nurse | Barts Health NHS Trust

To provide clinical leadership to a designated nursing team, ensuring the delivery of the highest standard of individualised family-centred care to children and their families in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team. Ensure that evidence-based practice is always performed, taking responsibility for updating own knowledge and skills in line with Trust policies and procedures and NMC Code.

1. Ensures the process of nursing is developed to meet the individual needs of each patient, providing well documented assessment, care planning and evaluation.
2. Responsible for setting, providing, and maintaining high standards of clinically effective nursing care at all times.

3. Always provide leadership and management to the staff team ensuring effective use of human resources on the ward to ensure safe and efficient service delivery

4. Ensure that a child and family-centered approach to care is provided in inpatient areas, which takes account of children’s individual medical, psychological, emotional, and social needs.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledgerequired. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Sep 2025