Job summary
Senior Sister / Senior Charge Nurse - Children's Services
Division: Women, Children and Young People
Care Group: Children and Young People
Band: 7
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum/Pro Rata
Interview Date: 23-June-2025

We are recruiting for an Senior Sister / Senior Charge Nursewho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job
Our Children's nursing team is expanding, and is led by our Director of Nursing for Children and Young People, a Trust wide role to ensure children and young people receive high quality care wherever they access our services across the organisation.

The successful post holder will ensure that the children and young people in the paediatric areas receive a high quality nursing care across our Inpatient & Outpatient wards, High Dependency Unit, and the Surgical Day Care Centre.

Our values are B old, E very Person Counts, S haring and Open and T ogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin our service provision and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Details
Date posted: 28 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Per Annum/Pro Rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 275-0826-SCSN-PAEDS
Job locations: Medway Maritime Hospital
Windmill Road
Gillingham, Kent
ME7 5NY
United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities

• Lead the ward / departmental team and build successful links between key professionals to support and promote effective multi-disciplinary team working.
• Manage the department nursing staff, ensuring Children and Young People (CYP) receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
• Be wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC Code and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.
• Communicate effectively and efficiently and liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that patients receive seamless care within the Trust.
• Act as a professional nurse leader and role model to the staff. To apply clinical skills of the highest standard and to take a proactive approach to the development of clinical competence in self and others.
• Maximise use of clinical resources, implementing best practice in patient flow, admission and discharge arrangements.
• Have an awareness of monthly budget statements, identifying trends, understanding spending patterns in order to stay in budget and take action as required.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register
• Specialist Professional Knowledge to Degree Level (or equivalent)
• Mentorship / Teaching Qualification
• Management Qualification (or equivalent relevant experience)

Experience
Essential

• Proven experience on managing a ward; including management of rotas, managing competencies, resources and staff
• Experience of administering intravenous drug therapy
• Experience of teaching / assessing / supervising others in a clinical setting

Skills
Essential

• Able to demonstrate sound safeguarding children knowledge, able to recognise concerns, escalate them appropriately and ensure other ward staffs do the same in line with Trust policy
• Ability to organise and plan own time and that of junior staff and learners
• Good communication skills and ability to deal with sensitive information. To include dealing with distressed relatives, care of terminally ill and other challenging situations
• Able to assess plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients / clients and give relevant advice / information to patients and relatives

Values Based Question
Essential

• How do you demonstrate respect and dignity?

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).

Employer details
Employer name: Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Medway Maritime Hospital
Windmill Road
Gillingham, Kent
ME7 5NY
United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.medway.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Matron for Children’s Services
Helen Sharman
helensharman@nhs.net
01634976149

Supporting documents
Privacy notice
Medway NHS Foundation Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)

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.