Sister​/Charge Nurse - Rockingham Ward

Sister / Charge Nurse - Rockingham Ward

The closing date is 04 February 2026

We are excited and proud to offer an opportunity to become part of our dynamic, friendly day surgery team on Rockingham ward. We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our established nursing team with a commitment to delivering high quality individualised patient centred care. We are looking for nurse with a range of experience in surgery to join our day surgery team as a Band 6 ward Sister/Charge nurse.

Rockingham ward is an elective day surgery unit based at Montagu Hospital Mexborough. We provide a variety of surgical procedures and care to our elective surgical patients from admission to discharge. As such, it offers excellent opportunities to expand your experience within a day surgery setting and provides experience in treating a wide range of surgical conditions such as Orthopaedic, Vascular, Ophthalmic, oral and Max fax, Gynaecology, Urology, Podiatric and General Surgery.

In return we offer inclusion into a fantastic, enthusiastic team, with a strong commitment to training and professional development.

Rockingham ward provides a high standard of clinical care to our patients five days per week. As the unit develops this service may expand to six days per week. Rockingham ward will equip nurses with skills in high quality essential nursing care and in managing and prioritising workload to ensure the safe, effective nurse led discharge of our patients following their elective procedure.

To co-ordinate the activities of the ward/department team to ensure the highest standard of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised holistic patient care in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team. The Sister will be required to manage the ward/department in the absence of the Band 7 Sister/Charge Nurse.

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:

• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers

Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully. Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.

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Please note that from 9th April 2025, band 2 & 3 entry roles are no longer eligible for sponsorship.

• Minimum of 2 years' experience as staff nurse in day surgery or a surgical setting
• Evidence of department…