University Hospital Southampton NHS FT
Junior Sister/ Charge Nurse
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Junior Sister/ Charge Nurse
Junior Sister / Charge Nurse – Eye Outpatients Department
Part-time (30 hrs), Internal Applicants Only University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
About the Role
A fantastic and eagerly anticipated opportunity has arisen in our busy, fast-paced Eye Outpatients Department, appealing primarily to internal University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust applicants.
We welcome an enthusiastic, professionally minded Junior Sister / Charge Nurse eager to develop leadership skills, mentor peers, and contribute to the growth of an expanding team. This role operates on a flexible schedule (Monday–Saturday), with time allocated to mentor junior nurses, speak with patients about further self-referral, and support ANTT and IV subjects.
Unmissable opportunity for career progression in a dynamic department serving up to 300 patients per session, split across two locations (Southampton and Lymington Hospitals).
We highly recommend an informal visit before applying to observe the working environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead as a positive role model for staff, setting high standards in professionalism, safety, and care quality.
- Develop professional knowledge while mentoring colleagues, supporting their personal, career, and clinical growth.
- Ensure health, safety, and security standards are maintained for patients, staff, and visitors.
- Drive service improvement initiatives across the department, fostering both clinical and operational excellence.
- Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), addressing any unconscious bias in behaviour or decision-making.
- Plan and facilitate staff training sessions, mentor learners, and create supportive learning environments.
- Clinical excellence: Develop expertise in ophthalmology and paediatrics (training provided).
- Act as a communication hub between multidisciplinary teams, patients, and senior nursing staff.
- Support senior management tasks in rostering, Human Resources (mentoring probationary clinical nurse specialists), IPR (Intellectual Property Review), and promoting healthcare transformation.
- Promote health and well-being within the team while contributing to data collection, trend analysis, and patient feedback processes.
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Day-to-Day Activities
- Supervising and coordinating a team of over 50 members across two hospital sites.
- Supporting advanced practitioner procedures (ANTT, IV therapy).
- Participating in educational group sessions and specialty clinics.
- Assisting in preventing/adjusting clinical escalations, recording feedback, and supporting patient follow-ups.
- Sharing evidence-based knowledge.
Main Duties
- Clinical leadership – Demonstrate clinical expertise as a role model; empower others to maintain standards.
- Mentor/coaching – Support learning in practice, including supervising learners, organising training, and assessing competence.
- Safety & compliance – Ensure adherence to health/safety protocols; promote infection control and patient reporting.
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion – Challenges discriminatory practices with openness and professionalism, embedding inclusion in all activities.
- Health & well-being advocacy – Help patients achieve optimal care and support carbon footprint reductions.
- Data management – Accurate recording and follow-through on patient assessments, insurance reimbursement, and audit compliance.
- Technical & IT skills – Utilise nursing science systems effectively; open to embracing new technology trends.
- ITU/ACLES ANTT/IV competence progression – Enhance advanced practice skills including rapid access injection therapy management.
Person Specification
Experience & Qualifications (Essential)
✅ Registered Nurse (Degree or Diploma) on the relevant register. ✅ Post-registration experience (e.g., ANP or DNL modules undertaken). ✅ Current acute care/admission experience enable safe discharge decision making post-operative solutions. ✅ Advanced Nursing ksa satisfactory after situational judgement evidence in recruitment assessment. ✅ Ward management or leadership experience (aches of development plan fulfilment). ✅ Training facilitation in own clinical area; ability to challenge leading with integrity and compassion. ✅ Continuing professional development (CPD) commitment, keeping skills up-to-date in Ophthalmology subspecialties. ✅ Nurses Management Curriculum (NM 305): Specific strengths in Senior Matron & Charge Nurse role play demonstrations.
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Desirable Experience
🔹 Experience in compaint’ resolver/gathering patient feedback leading to procedural improvements. 🔹 Complaint handling in clinical incidents & ethics healthcare metrics documentation. 🔹 Competence in budgeting, Suffolk Institute (if relevant) collaborations, supporting multifaceted CCG work environments. 🔹 Ability to evaluate challenges as appropriate to senior team members under mega-confident manning communication.
Trust Values & Behaviours
Literally revered in workforce practices aligned with UHS vision:
Essential
- Patients First. Prioritising patient-centred clinical decisions.
- Always Improving. Holding growth through audit trail corrections and quality checks.
- Working Together: Collaborating across service boundaries without macro-registry red-tape obstruction.
About University Hospital Southampton NHS FT
What makes us a great place to work?
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Caring community. Based on the UK’s largest acute teaching Trust, committed to evolving service delivery regions including paediatrics, trauma surgery and opthalmology triage scenarios.
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Inclusive workplace: We value diversity and principles backed by a gender pay-gap transparency philosophy.
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Skills resilience: A hub of staff training ranging from management training through leadership pathways for bold career moves.
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Time-effective locations: Situated near the New Forest,coastal walks, national rail connections or two hours from London.
📌 Internal applications only – this opportunity opens future horizons for existing trust members stepping into a supportive leadership insight pool.
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