The closing date is 08 April 2026
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Job summary
Birmingham Heartlands is a dynamic and busy Emergency Department with a yearly attendance of approximately 150,000 patients, offering a wide range of clinical experience. We are looking for enthusiastic, proactive, and motivated individuals to join our friendly team.
We offer a supportive, exciting, and challenging work environment that is committed to providing high quality care for our patients and the development of our staff. As part of your development, you will have access to an educational pathway that will support you with both your managerial and clinical skills. Our commitment to staff development is reflected in our supernumerary induction programme with a negotiable amount of supernumerary time. There is an experienced band 7 team with a wealth of knowledge that will support you throughout. We also have a dedicated wellbeing room and hub advisor to support our staff.
As a band 6 Department Sister/Deputy Charge Nurse in the Emergency Department your role is pivotal as a proficient role model and clinical expert working alongside the senior nursing team.
If you like to be busy, enjoy a good team atmosphere and the challenge of working in ED we would like to hear from you. The successful candidate will need to be a forward-thinking creative nurse with strong communication skills and who strives to ensure quality patient care is always present. The post holder should be able to cope in a changing environment, to have good attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will act as a role model for junior team members in the delivery of a consistent high standard of nursing practice. They will deputise for the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse and will support the leadership and management of the department with particular emphasis on quality and clinical standards. They will have continuing clinical responsibility for managing the wards/departments in the absence of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse which will include: understanding finances, the deployment, delegation and supervision of all grades of staff and be visible and approachable for patients, staff and visitors.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Registered Adult Nurse on the NMC register
Desirable
- * Health care management / leadership qualification
- * ILS
Experience
Essential
- * Substantial post registration experience working in a complex health care setting / Acute NHS care setting supervising /mentoring junior staff
- * Evidence of professional /clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical and or managerial training and CPD
- * Can demonstrate understanding / experience / willingness to be a practice based supervisor /assessor as detailed in the Nursing & Midwifery Council ( NMC ) standards for student supervision and assessment
- * Professional portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
- * Relevant and recent clinical experience within the speciality /acute care setting, including the supervision /education of junior staff
- * Experience of mentoring undergraduate students
- * Evidence of ability to lead /coordinate a shift /area of department
- * Experience in learning from incidents /complaints and supporting changes in practice.
- * Demonstrable ability, experience, passion in the following:
- o Leadership
- o Team Building
- o Managing resources
- o Time management
- o Role modelling
- o Change management / clinical developments
- o Clinical governance
- o Audit and research
- o Workforce planning / management
- o NHS policy and political awareness
Desirable
- * Previous ED experience
- * Leadership course
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).