University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust – Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse – Recruitment and Workforce
The closing date is 20 May 2026.
We are looking for the right person to join our small team to support the Trust’s workforce agenda. You need to be an experienced Registered Nurse with substantial experience in the recruitment and selection of clinical staff across a range of roles and bandings. Have a strong understanding of the complexities associated with workforce and recruiting, including workforce shortages, skill mix requirements, regulatory compliance, and balancing service delivery with safe staffing levels.
This is a full‑time post worked over 4 or 5 days. The base location will be QE, with a requirement to travel across sites as needed.
Main duties of the job
You must demonstrate an understanding of the importance of accuracy and attention to detail at every stage of the recruitment process, be confident in Microsoft Office – particularly Excel – to manage recruitment data, track vacancies, analyse workforce trends and support reporting requirements. You must have good experience in shortlisting against essential and desirable criteria, ensuring decisions are evidence‑based, consistent, and defensible, in line with policy and best practice.
Show strong working knowledge of equality, diversity, and inclusion in recruitment, ensuring compliance with equality legislation and NHS values, and recognising the importance of recruiting a diverse workforce that reflects the population we serve.
Excellent communication skills are critical. You will communicate with professionalism, compassion, and transparency, using diplomacy and tact when delivering constructive feedback or unwelcome outcomes to candidates and colleagues.
Job responsibilities
Please note: for a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse on the NMC Register
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post‑graduate diploma‑level specialist training or equivalent experience via on‑the‑job learning
Experience
- Post‑graduate experience working as a Band 6 or above or equivalent position with experience in the deployment/organisation of staff
- Significant experience in the recruitment and selection of staff
- Demonstrable understanding of job evaluation principles
- Demonstrable appreciation of equality and inclusion as part of recruitment and selection practices which support ethical practice
- Demonstrable understanding of complexities associated with recruitment and the right values, skills, and right person for positions
- Demonstrate appreciation of accuracy for shortlisting, recruitment, and selection of staff and can relate this to quality, safety, and patient and staff outcomes
- Can demonstrate and apply clinical knowledge and experience to interview and selection process
- Experience in provision of unwelcome news using tact, diplomacy and empathy
- Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to recruitment and workforce
- Has understanding/experience of the principles of safeguarding and can apply this to the position
- Experience in working in an NHS acute provider organisation as a Band 6 or above with experience in the deployment/organisation of staff
- Experience in talking to groups of staff, prospective employees about working in an acute NHS provider organisation
- Experience in presenting to groups
- Experience in producing and authoring reports
Additional criteria
- Proficient IT skills, able to add, administer and retrieve information and data into systems and utilise this to inform decisions and for report writing
- Good task initiation skills able to manage and prioritise tasks and maintain accuracy under tight and inflexible deadlines without direct supervision
- Highly developed clear communication skills which are adaptive – confident in leading interview/selection process and speaking in front of groups
- Highly developed communication skills across reading, oral, listening and writing and can relate this to accuracy needed for processing applications for shortlisting, recruitment, selection
- Flexible and able to adjust workload and priorities in accordance with organisational need
- Ability to apply principles of audit to own work and that of others to identify areas for improvement and risk
- Confident in speaking and presenting to prospective employees about NHS roles and working in the NHS
- Uses empathy, professional knowledge to support and guide prospective applicants to the right roles
- Willingness to participate in job matching/job evaluation training and apply skills and knowledge to the role to support organisational job description updating/development
- Ability to research key topics associated with recruitment/workforce to inform workforce transformation projects and programmes and present findings back
- Following supervision and training (where required) can compile reports and documents for internal/external communication and circulation
- Ability to work flexibly to suit the needs of the service and work/life balance – may include occasionally pre‑planned weekend working
- Ability to travel to all NHS sites/premises associated with the Trust as part of the role
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.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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