Senior Sister / Charge Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and compassionate Senior Sister / Charge Nurse to join the Neonatal Team at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. The role involves leading a team of Band 7 clinical leaders, ensuring high standards of family-centred care, and contributing to the expansion of the neonatal service. The successful candidate will be responsible for assessing care needs, developing programmes of care, and evaluating patient processes to improve the pathway of care. This post requires strong leadership, team-building skills, and a passion for patient care and service excellence.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- QIS trained with experience
- Current NLS 4 yearly training
- Experience in shift leading
Desirable criteria
- Leadership training/Course or desire to develop
- Research experience
- Risk Management or Quality Improvement Projects participation
- Ability to work and communicate as part of the multidisciplinary team
- Good level of IT ie Email/Internet
- Ability to prioritise in order to meet deadlines when writing reports
- Effectively carries out tasks related to audit and evaluating services
- Ability to plan workload and supervise others effectively to meet service needs
- Ability to deal with operational issues
- Ability to deliver on the Key NICU performance indicators
- Project leadership skills
- Substantial time working in Neonatal unit
- Mentoring students
- Change management skills
- Evidence of involvement in project management
- Knowledge of teaching and learning
- Able to evaluate and analyse results of audit in order to improve the service
- Experience in change management and/or quality improvement initiatives
- Knowledge of National Neonatal policies & guidelines
- Fully aware of the children's Act & National/Local Safeguarding Children Board legislation
- Registered Nurse
- QIS trained with experience
- Current NLS 4 yearly training
- Experience in shift leading
- Leadership training/Course or desire to develop
- Research experience
- Risk Management or Quality Improvement Projects participation
- Ability to work and communicate as part of the multidisciplinary team
- Good level of IT ie Email/Internet
- Ability to prioritise in order to meet deadlines when writing reports
- Effectively carries out tasks related to audit and evaluating services
- Ability to plan workload and supervise others effectively to meet service needs
- Ability to deal with operational issues
- Ability to deliver on the Key NICU performance indicators
- Project leadership skills
- Substantial time working in Neonatal unit
- Mentoring students
- Change management skills
- Evidence of involvement in project management
- Knowledge of teaching and learning
- Able to evaluate and analyse results of audit in order to improve the service
- Experience in change management and/or quality improvement initiatives
- Knowledge of National Neonatal policies & guidelines
- Fully aware of the children's Act & National/Local Safeguarding Children Board legislation
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 7d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Sister / Charge Nurse
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Neonatal Team Luton and Dunstable Hospital.
If you are ambitious, confident, self-motivated and compassionate, looking to develop your career in neonatal nursing and make a difference, this post offers you the opportunity to play a key role as part of a new and developing team of band 7 clinical leaders.
There has never been a more exciting time to join our neonatal team as we expand our neonatal service. The New Neonatal Unit has opened since November 2025.
The post holder will need to have a good team building skills and be able to demonstrate how they motivate and lead. He/she will be required to work flexibly as a member of the neonatal team to ensure standards are being maintained, evaluated and where necessary improved. As a Sister/Charge Nurse you will work collaboratively with all members of multi-professional team, ensure that the baby and family have a satisfactory experience by evaluating patient processes and redesigning the pathway of care including external agencies and also other hospitals.
If you are a motivated leader with a passion for patient care and service excellence, we want to hear from you. Join us and make a real difference in a hospital that values innovation, collaboratio
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