Senior Sister/Charge Nurse
| Posting date: | 05 June 2026 |
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| Salary: | £49,387.00 to £56,515.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49387.00 - £56515.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 June 2026 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9298-26-0371 |
Summary
Why you should join our Team Emergency General Surgery (EGS) is part of the Abdominal Medicine and Surgery Clinical Service Unit (CSU). The ward works closely with the Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU), Ambulatory Surgical Clinic (ASC), and the Patient Flow team (PFC) to support the timely admission and discharge of patients. In addition, the ward maintains strong collaboration with the wider Emergency General Surgery teams, providing excellent opportunities for professional development within the speciality. J46 is a fast-paced and dynamic environment, offering a challenging yet highly rewarding place to work. What you will bring to the role Support and inspire staff to provide efficient, effective, safe, quality care to patients. Deliver a positive patient experience. Supervise ward staff with regards clinical practice and patient experience to promote the delivery of excellent clinical standards. Provide a visible clinical lead and role model to the nursing and wider team by delivering high quality compassionate care as an expert practitioner. Through the use of audit, local research, metrics and feedback continually seek to identify practice that needs improvement. Implement and evaluate any resultant improvement plan. Maintain and sustain the momentum of improvements until they are firmly embedded into the values and culture of the clinical area. Promote a learning and development culture to the improve staff skills, knowledge and competence. Promote a positive learning environment within the clinical area to support the development of knowledge and skills in learners. Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy. About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are: Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond. Sponsorship Eligibility To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.