Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Sister/Charge Nurse EPU/ UGCC
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Band 7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse
Early Pregnancy Unit & Urgent Gynaecology Service
Permanent | 37.5 hours per week
We are seeking an experienced, compassionate, and highly motivated Senior Sister/Charge Nurse to lead our Early Pregnancy Unit and Urgent Gynaecology Service. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic nurse leader to play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, responsive, and patient-centred care within a specialist women’s health service.
Reporting to the Matron for Gynaecology Services, the post holder will provide both operational and clinical leadership for the service, taking day-to-day responsibility for the effective running of the unit across its full operating hours. You will lead by example, ensuring the delivery of safe, efficient, and compassionate care for women accessing urgent and early pregnancy services.
This role includes direct line management of a multidisciplinary team of registered nurses and healthcare support workers, with responsibility for workforce planning, rostering, appraisal, performance management, and the ongoing professional development of staff across all shifts. You will be instrumental in creating a positive team culture, supporting staff wellbeing, and driving excellence in clinical practice and service delivery.
Main Duties of the Job
- Provides operational and clinical leadership for the Early Pregnancy Unit and Urgent Gynaecology Service, reporting to the Matron for Gynaecology Service and taking day-to-day responsibility for the running of the unit across its full operating hours.
- Direct line management of a multidisciplinary team of registered nurses and healthcare support workers, with accountability for rostering, appraisal, performance management, and professional development across all shifts.
- As a devolved budget holder, manages the unit’s pay and non-pay budget, ensuring resources are used efficiently and safely to maintain effective service delivery and timely access to care.
- Works within a complex multidisciplinary environment, collaborating closely with consultants, resident doctors, sonographers, ward and theatre teams, the emergency department, radiology, operational managers, and the midwifery team, while maintaining effective liaison with GP services, patients, and their families.
- Exercises autonomous professional judgement within national guidelines, NMC standards, and Trust policies, resolving clinical and operational issues independently while escalating significant risks and capacity concerns appropriately.
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Working for our Organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability-confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first-class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management, leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work-life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognizing that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours. We do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience at Band 6 (or equivalent), including evidence of team leadership and/or deputising responsibilities.
- Experience of managing and supervising staff, including rostering, appraisal, and performance management.
- Experience of coordinating patient flow, capacity, and escalation in a busy clinical environment.
- Experience of clinical governance activity, incident investigation, complaints handling, audit, and quality improvement.
- Experience of assessing and managing acute gynaecological presentations (e.g., pelvic pain, bleeding, miscarriage).
Desirable criteria
- Experience specifically within an EPU and/or Gynaecology service.
- Experience of budget or resource management.
- Experience of EPR system
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration.
- Mentorship/Assessor qualification.
- Evidence of leadership development through formal training or quality improvement initiatives.
Desirable criteria
- Participation in clinical audits, research, or quality-improvement initiatives.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent computer literacy, including presentation skills.
- Ability to make decisions, organise, and prioritise.
- In-depth understanding of women’s health, early pregnancy, and urgent gynaecology conditions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise effectively with multidisciplinary team members.
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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT)
FHFT is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement, and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Our new organizational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive, and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helping us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, saving time and carbon while delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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