Senior Sister/Charge Nurse - Clinical Effectiveness
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Sister/Charge Nurse to join the Gynaecology Governance Team at St Mary's Hospital, covering maternity leave for 12 months. The role focuses on clinical effectiveness, aiming to improve patient care and safety through incident investigation, practice development, and facilitating learning. The successful candidate will provide leadership and specialist knowledge to support high-quality clinical effectiveness activities within the gynaecology division. This position requires excellent communication, experience in improving patient care standards, and a passion for promoting patient safety.
Key responsibilities
- Provide leadership and management within the Clinical Effectiveness team.
- Support the delivery of high-quality clinical effectiveness related activities.
- Apply specialist skills and knowledge to enable high-quality gynaecology care.
- Contribute to patient-focused initiatives to improve care and safety.
- Participate in incident investigation, monitoring effectiveness, and developing practices.
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of governance related matters
- Clinical and quality governance framework application
- Able to apply national and trust policies in practice
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Excellent IT skills
- Good leadership skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Aptitude to change
- Positive attitude
- Team builder
- Encourages participation from all staff
- Ability to work across boundaries to manage change
- Registered Nurse
- Evidence of CPD in relevant specialty
- Evidence of Level 3/ Level 6 studies
- Teaching/ assessing qualification
- Significant experience at Junior Sister/ Charge Nurse Band 6 level
- Experience of managing and leading a team
- Proven track record of experience and understanding of local and Trust Clinical Effectiveness processes, including incident management, audit, guideline / policy development and education programmes
- Evidence of good organisational and planning skills
- Recent evidence of continuing professional and personal development
- Implementation of audit/research recommendations
- Experience of change management
- Knowledge of local and national quality of care issues affecting healthcare
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
- Knowledge of quality improvement schemes and implementing change
- Analytical skills
- Appropriate management or leadership courses
- Teaching / presenting at internal / external venues
- Awareness of budgetary control
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 2d ago · Closes in 5d
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Job summary
Band 7 Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse - Clinical Effectiveness
22.5 hours over 3 days covering maternity leave
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Sister / Charge Nurse to join our Gynaecology Governance Team, working across the division, covering maternity leave over a 12 month period. Clinical effectiveness incorporates numerous patient focused initiatives striving to improve patient care and safety through a wide variety of activities including incident investigation, monitoring effectiveness, developing practices and facilitating learning, whilst sharing and celebrating achievements.
In addition to providing secondary women's healthcare services for the local population, Gynaecology at St Mary's Hospital also provides tertiary services to the North West in Gynaecological Oncology, Urogynaecology and Reproductive Medicine.
Challenging, interesting and rewarding, the job requires you to have a broad range of experience and skills including excellent communication skills, prior experience & involvement with improving patient care standards and evidence of diplomacy & negotiation skills. Applicants for the position will need to be enthusiastic and have a passion from improving clinical practices and promoting patient safety in women's healthcare.
Main duties of the job
The post holder has a key leadership and management role at a senior leve
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