Borough Lead Nurse | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £80,025 - £91,336 per annum Inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 October 2025 |
| Location: | Tower Hamlets, E1 4DG |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7474752/363-TH7474752 |
Summary
Borough Lead Nurse.
The Borough Lead Nurse is a key member of the Directorate Management Team who is accountable for delivering nursing leadership and services of the highest quality in the Borough.
The successful applicant will be someone whose focus is on how the needs of service users can be met through the provision of high-quality nursing services. You will be interested in the lives of people with mental health needs and how good services can make a difference to the quality and well-being of those people. You will actively seek to work with service users to that end.
Tower Hamlets is a highly diverse area of London with considerable social deprivation. Professionals work closely with service users to improve and develop services.
The Trust has also achieved excellent service ratings and as a Foundation Trust is committed to strengthening the capacity of our membership whilst developing the expertise of our workforce and our partnerships with external organisations.
You will need to demonstrate your partnership experience, your practical abilities in managing people and resources and your capacity to inspire, lead and drive improvements in our nursing and wider services.
To provide professional leadership, manage and support nursing staff to enable improved inpatient care, develop nursing practice and clinical leadership at a local level.
The post holder will be the responsible lead for local induction of nurses entering the service and overseeing the education, training and professional development of the nursing work force for the designated area of responsibility. Support the Director of Nursing for London to provide visible nursing leadership, advice and support to nurses in the borough.
Ensure that all relevant statutes and professional guidance on nursing are reflected in local strategies, procedures and plans and that all nurses work within these statutory and regulatory frameworks.
The Post Holder will be responsible for budgets for the Tower Hamlets in-patient units that include 3 older adults wards and 2 PICU wards for men and women.
The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing a performance management structure for all nursing staff with clearly defined, measurable objectives and will work with the Director of Nursing for London to keep the Borough’s governance team informed on all emerging issues and progress on nursing performance and national targets across the borough. And strengthen the inter-professional working within the borough and the interface between the in-patients and community services
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Sep 2025