Charge Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a full-time Band 7 Charge Nurse position in Intensive Care at Castle Hill Hospital. The role involves operational management of elective and emergency work, as well as managing both Hull Royal and Castle Hill sites on weekends. The successful candidate will need excellent communication, leadership, and people management skills to support staff and ensure high-quality patient care. They will also contribute to quality improvement initiatives and staff development.
Essential criteria
- All sections of application form fully completed
- Education/ Qualifications
- Adult registered Nurse
- Post Graduation critical care course
- Evidence of leadership
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Teaching/ mentorship certificate
Desirable criteria
- Completion of steps 1,2,3 critical care competencies
- Clinical supervision training
- Trim training
- ILS/ALS
- Knowledge, Training & Experience
- Substantive Critical Care experience
- Experience working as a senior nurse with managerial responsibility
- Demonstrable experience of managing/ leading others
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
- Proven ability to communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team (both verbal and non-verbal)
- Good interpersonal skills and demonstrable ability to manage challenging situations
- Proven ability to deal with difficult or sensitive issues
- Understanding of confidentiality in the workplace
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to facilitate change
- Proven ability to prioritise own workload and manage tasks (i.e., staffing, patients, beds)
- Proven ability to mentor/preceptor junior members of staff
- Proven ability to educate colleagues
- Must be aware of benchmarking and clinical governance
- Special Attributes and other
- Good communication - verbal /written
- Confident and approachable
- Proven ability to work on own initiative
- Enthusiasm and motivation to develop knowledge and skills
- Motivation to promote change
- Good interpersonal skills
- Must be willing to work flexibly
- Participate in standard setting and research projects
- Facilitate learning of others
- Must have awareness of clinical governance and benchmarking
- Computer literate
- Must be confident decision maker
- Must possess good time management and organisational skills
- Must be willing to work on both hospital sites
- Application Completion
- All sections of application form fully completed
- Education/ Qualifications
- Adult registered Nurse
- Post Graduation critical care course
- Evidence of leadership
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Teaching/ mentorship certificate
- Completion of steps 1,2,3 critical care competencies
- Clinical supervision training
- Trim training
- ILS/ALS
- Knowledge, Training & Experience
- Substantive Critical Care experience
- Experience working as a senior nurse with managerial responsibility
- Demonstrable experience of managing/ leading others
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
- Proven ability to communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team (both verbal and non-verbal)
- Good interpersonal skills and demonstrable ability to manage challenging situations
- Proven ability to deal with difficult or sensitive issues
- Understanding of confidentiality in the workplace
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to facilitate change
- Proven ability to prioritise own workload and manage tasks (i.e., staffing, patients, beds)
- Proven ability to mentor/preceptor junior members of staff
- Proven ability to educate colleagues
- Must be aware of benchmarking and clinical governance
- Special Attributes and other
- Good communication - verbal /written
- Confident and approachable
- Proven ability to work on own initiative
- Enthusiasm and motivation to develop knowledge and skills
- Motivation to promote change
- Good interpersonal skills
- Must be willing to work flexibly
- Participate in standard setting and research projects
- Facilitate learning of others
- Must have awareness of clinical governance and benchmarking
- Computer literate
- Must be confident decision maker
- Must possess good time management and organisational skills
- Must be willing to work on both hospital sites
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 1d ago · Closes in 14d
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Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Charge Nurse
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity for a full time band 7 in Intensive Care on the Castle Hill site. The post holder will work both operationally with other band 7's to manage the elective and emergency work at the Castle Hill Site, and manage both the Hull Royal site and Castle Hill site on a weekend on a rota.
The successful candidate must have excellent communication skills and work collaboratively with the wider ICU team to ensure delivery of excellent patient care.
Main duties of the job
The candidate must have excellent leadership and people management skills, and be able to support staff. They must be an excellent role model and promote an open and honest culture. They should have good problem solving skills and have enthusiasm for professional development.
The band 7 will support quality improvement initiatives and help to strengthen governance procedures.
The band 7 will support staff development through appraisals and training opportunities, be inclusive and gain an awareness of support services that are available
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
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