Paediatric Clinical Sister / Charge Nurse


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£39,959 to £48,117 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Coventry, CV2 2DX
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	23 Sept 2026
Closing date:	7 Oct 2026

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Summary

Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times. Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to patients/carers and the multi-professional team. A skilled practitioner and clinical leader providing support to the management team, participating in service/policy development. Assist in the audit of service delivery, communicate findings with others, and assist in ensuring that identified scope for improvement is implemented. Designated shift Co-ordinator. Ensure appropriate support to junior team members. Management of workload on each shift, ensuring appropriate allocation of duties. Oversight for ensuring management, supervision, and support to staff to ensure coordination of clinical activities. Responsible for clinical assessment of patients and provision of nursing interventions to maintain and improve the health and welfare of patients in all areas of the Paediatric Unit Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities including HR, resource, and bleep-holder responsibilities as appropriate. This includes assisting with the operational Co-ordination of the Paediatric Unit including out of hours bed capacity management, safer staffing, and Paediatric Bleep holder responsibilities. Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; complex patient monitoring; equipment management and frequent administration of invasive tests/procedures. Develop and educate staff, participating in supervision, assessment and appraisal as required. Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available. Acts as an advocate and spokesperson for the patient and families to ensure safe and effective liaison with internal and external parties, referring to service lead as required. Manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring varying levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need. Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g imparting bad news or following an unexpected event. Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards. Maintain a clean, safe environment ensuring adherence to Trust standards of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control at all times. The successful applicant will have a requirement to become CPI trained to support children and young people in crisis. For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

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