Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse - Recruitment and Workforce

We are looking for right person to join our small team to support the workforce Trusts 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 understanding workforce shortages, skill mix requirements, regulatory compliance, and the need to balance 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 be able to demonstrate 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. Good experience in shortlisting against essential and desirable criteria, ensuring decisions are evidence-based, consistent, and defensible, in line with policy and best practice.

Be able to demonstrate strong working knowledge of equality, diversity, and inclusion in recruitment, ensuring compliance with equality legislation and NHS values, recognising the importance of recruiting a diverse workforce that reflects the population we serve.

Excellent communication skills are critical. You will be able to communicate with professionalism, compassion, and transparency, using diplomacy and tact when delivering constructive feedback or unwelcome outcomes to candidates and colleagues.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• *Registered Nurse on the NMC Register
• *Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplement by post graduate diploma level specialist training or equivalent experience acquired via on-the-job experience

Experience

Essential

• *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 right values, skills, 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 recruitment and workforce
• *Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding and can apply this to the position.

Desirable

• *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

Essential

• *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 some 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 and the work of other to identify areas for improvement and identification of 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 this may include occasionally pre planned weekend working

*Ability to travel to all NHS sites/ premises associated with the Trust as part of the role

About the employer

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.