Sister/Charge Nurse

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

5/15/2025

Acute Ambulatory Care Unit

Sister/Charge Nurse (Band 6) – Fixed term Maternity Cover – 12 Months

There is an exciting opportunity to join the AACU leadership team!

The unit is a fun and friendly nurse lead team who have a good patient to nurse ratio.

We are open 7 days a week – no *Nights*

The successful candidate will need to have significant experience in Acute/Oncology nursing. They will also need to have strong leadership skills and be a positive role model within the team.

A key aspect to the role is supporting the Senior Charge Nurse to ensure the unit is safely staffed, to develop the teams and to contribute to practice development. The successful candidate will need excellent communication skills and be able to work productively with other members of the team.

• To deputise for and support the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
• Be responsible for and maintain a safe environment, escalating issues appropriately
• Monitor admissions are in compliance with admissions policy, monitoring and escalating breaches
• Provide a welcoming and approachable management support ethic for new staff, AACU junior staff and act as mentor to designated staff ensuring each staff member participates in a personal development plan and act to maximise the potential of others
• Act as team leader for the AACU team, ensuring that they are compliant with training requirements.
• Assess, plan and implement clinical care and maintain associated patient records. Involving auditing appropriate documentation as per care indicators
• To organise daily work schedule ensuring appropriate and effective skill mix and deployment of staff for appropriate patient needs.
• To have an awareness of the staff and non-staff budget
• Be aware of Health and Safety issues and ensure relevant risk assessments are undertaken.
• Regularly liaise and report to Department Manager/Senior Nursing team on unit affairs and staff development.
• Assist in nursing recruitment process when required
• Take a progressive approach to the management of short and long-term sickness/absence in collaboration with the Department manager/Senior Nursing team
  
  

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sabrina Scott Job title: Senior Sister Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0161 9561341