Band 6 Junior Sister​/Charge Nurse - ED Paeds

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Main area Children's Emergency Department Grade Band 6 Contract 14 months (Fixed term/Secondment) Hours Part time - 34.5 hours per week Job
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Site Cross sites Town Romford Salary £40,926 - £48,319 per annum inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 02/02/2026 23:59

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We have an exciting secondment opportunity for a Sister/Charge Nurse position within our Children’s Emergency Departments for a period of 14 months.

We are looking for enthusiastic, committed, and hardworking individuals to join our Children’s ED team. You must be able to work well under pressure and have a willingness to learn and develop your own skills. If this is you, we would be delighted to hear from you.

You will be expected to provide the highest standard of evidence based; patient centered care. You will have a passion for education training and development of staff which ultimately impact on the patients. Most importantly, you will share our PRIDE values and our desire to continue to improve. Our busy Children's Emergency Departments cover two sites - Queens Hospital in Romford and King George's Hospital in Goodmayes.

Although this position is a 14 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 14 months.

To provide expert emergency care to children and their families that attend our two children’s emergency departments at King George and Queens Hospital. Provide support to the senior sister/charge nurse. Act as nurse in charge of the department when on shift. Support junior staff and participate in management of the team.

We know it takes happy motivated staff to be produce patient satisfaction, so we’re making our hospitals a great place to work. It’s about living in our values:
Passion, Responsibility, Innovation, Drive and Empowerment - the PRIDE at the heart of all we do.

We deliver a comprehensive range of general Paediatric and Surgical Services to our local communities. These are amongst the busiest Children’s EDs in the country and we are always looking to build our team to provide the best service possible. Our CED team is constantly expanding, to support this you will be learning and developing your knowledge whilst ensuring your skills are kept fully up to date.

You will be supported by our Senior Sisters, Matron and members of the wider MDT Team.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefit ting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

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