Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse

Job summary
Are you an experienced Emergency Nurse ready to take the next step in your career? Or perhaps you're already working at Band 6 and want to join a team where you'll feel supported, challenged, and valued? Either way, you could feel right at home in our busy and brilliant Emergency Department here at Queens Hospital. We're one of the busiest EDs in the region, seeing around 300 patients every day across Majors, Resus, RAFT, Triage, and SDEC. It's demanding, unpredictable, and no two shifts are the same -- but you'll never be alone. Our Senior Nurses are incredibly hands-on, compassionate leaders who take real pride in supporting, developing, and being visible for their team. You'll also benefit from, University-linked postgraduate study and specialist ED in-house training days. As a Junior Sister / Charge Nurse, you'll lead by example to provide safe, efficient, and high-quality individualised care to patients with a wide range of needs in a fast-paced emergency setting. Your responsibilities will include the management of patient flow, supervising and supporting both qualified and unqualified staff, facilitating education and development and acting as a shift leader in the absence of a Charge Nurse. You'll need to be triage-competent (or working towards it), have an emergency care qualification and bring previous ED experience at Band 5 or above at a minimum of two years. In return, we'll support you to continue growing -- clinically and as a leader.

Main duties of the job
To provide safe, efficient and high-quality individualised care to clients across a wide range of specialities within the Emergency Department. Provide primary education, health advice and promotion to constitute a safe effective discharge to enable client self-care on discharge. To supervise and facilitate the education, training and development needs of both registered, unregistered staff and students. Ensure all care is inclusive, equitable and is provided within the Trust and Local Unit Policies.

About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Details
Date posted: 23 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year per annum inclusive
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 162-8055-ACUTE
Job locations: Queen's Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford, RM7 0AG, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Education / Qualification

• Essential: TILS course
• Essential: Triage Competent
• Desirable: Completed the Capital Nurse Course or equivalent Emergency Nursing Care Course

Skills / Abilities

• Desirable: Ability to facilitate learning and provide clinical supervision for others

Experience / Knowledge

• Essential: Experience of working in all areas of the Emergency Department.
• Desirable: Current knowledge of wider NHS issues and the impact this has on care delivery within Emergency Care.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address: Queen's Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford, RM7 0AG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Matron Marianne Govinden, marianne.govinden@nhs.net, 01708435000

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