Band 7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse – Stoke (Ward 32)
The closing date is 22 June 2026
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching hospital Trusts in England, recognised for delivering high‑quality, patient‑centred care.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and experienced registered nurse to join our team as a Ward Manager within Stroke Services at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital.
This is a key leadership role where you will provide visible, compassionate, and inclusive leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and high‑quality care to patients following stroke. You will lead a dedicated multidisciplinary team, driving improvements in patient outcomes and experience in line with national and local priorities.
Main duties of the job
- Provide professional, clinical, and operational leadership to the ward team
- Deliver and sustain high standards of patient care, ensuring care is Kind, Connected and Bold
- Be accountable for ward performance, including quality, safety, patient experience, and flow
- Lead on audit, governance, and quality improvement, supporting delivery of key performance metrics including SSNAP
- Ensure effective workforce planning, safe staffing, rostering, and budgetary oversight
- Support staff development through appraisal, supervision, and education, fostering a positive and inclusive culture
- Work collaboratively with the wider stroke pathway and multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless patient care
- Champion continuous improvement and innovation within stroke services
Job responsibilities
For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Registered Adult Nurse on NMC register
Experience
- Professional portfolio demonstrating continuing professional development and evidence of maintaining professional registration
- Substantial relevant and recent clinical experience within a complex health care setting or Acute NHS setting, working as a deputy Manager Band 6, including supervision and education of junior staff/students
- Demonstrated understanding of practice‑based supervision and assessment as per NMC standards for student supervision and assessment
- Demonstrable current, recent experience of team leadership and management within the healthcare setting
- Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non‑pay resources associated with the clinical service
- Evidence of effective multi‑professional working
- Experience of being a mentor
- Demonstration of a significant contribution to innovative practice or change management
- Experience in interviewing and selection of staff
- Experience learning from incidents/complaints and supporting changes in practice
- Strong leadership, team building, resource management, time management, clinical governance, audit and research, workforce planning / management, NHS policy and political awareness, knowledge of clinical governance
Additional Criteria
- Demonstrates key strengths and motivators for relating to others
- Competence in expanded clinical practice associated with the role
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Proven ability to analyse data and identify data trends
- Ability to effectively present information to groups/health care professionals
- Ability to work under pressure across competing demands
- Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Approachable and friendly
- Supportive
- FlexibleWell‑organised
- Ability to delegate and supervise
- Willingness to work core shift patterns Monday to Friday with occasional out of hours/weekend working
- OR undertake a range of shift patterns to cover 24/7 period with occasional out of hours/weekend working
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service. No prior criminal convictions will be considered acceptable, unless this is adequately explained in the application.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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