Job summary
We have the opportunity to appoint 1 x substantive & 2 x Development secondment Sister/Charge Nurse.
J81 Bexley ICU is a 16 bedded Critical Care unit which provides care for multi-specialty surgical patients, including Upper GI, Colo-rectal, gynaecology, hepato-biliary, urology and pancreatic and thoracic. The team also care for patients from oncology and haematology. The team is an enthusiastic, multicultural team, passionate about delivering high quality patient cantered care. The Bexley ICU team will provide opportunities and support regarding education and integration into the team and will provide this by working within the Leeds Way values.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be expected to work clinically within the multi-disciplinary team, maintain high standards of practice while supporting staff on a shift-by-shift basis and provide clinical leadership in decision making.
Due to the unique specialist care that is required for effective and safe patient care, the post holder must be able to respond robustly and timely to the ever-increasing demands and challenges that our critical care units (and wider CSU teams) bring. This includes supporting and mentoring our newer and more junior team members who may not always have experience in critical care.
Please refer to the job description and Additional addendum supporting documents for further information.
About us
Adult Critical Care consists of 5 critical care units, 2 at St James Hospital (General Critical Care and Surgical-Oncology Critical Care), and 3 units at Leeds General Infirmary (Cardiac Critical Care, General Critical Care and Neurosurgical Critical Care).
Adult Critical Care is committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice so that our organisation is an inclusive, welcoming, and inspiring place to work, regardless of age, disability, trans identity or history, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
If you would like any further details regarding the Critical Care Unit for this post, please contact the Recruiting Manager.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Details
Date posted
07 November 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
C9298-ACC-118
Job locations
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Job description
Job responsibilities
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Leadership
Support Senior Sister / Charge nurse in providing leadership to the clinical team
Support and inspire staff to provide efficient, effective, safe, quality care to patients
Deliver a positive patient experience
Promote the building of effective teams and collaboration between teams
Anticipate problems and take preventative or mitigating actions, or have contingency plans available
Assist in the line management of the nursing team, including individual and team performance, attendance, management and workforce planning
Help to ensure the effective deployment of staff is mapped against the flow of patients to provide safe and effective care
Support and participate in local and trust-wide recruitment events
Help to manage the use of bank and agency
Support the senior sister / charge nurse to Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events
Support in the delivery of an effective, safe, quality service within budgetary envelope
Raise and respond to concerns with regards to risk, danger, malpractice or wrongdoing by following the LTHT whistle blowing policy and supporting processes
Deputise for Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in their absence
Clinical
Act in accordance to the Nursing and Midwifery Councils Code: Professional Standards Practice and Behaviour (March, 2015)
Fulfils the requirements as directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to maintain and revalidate registration
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
Ensure that documentation standards are maintained in accordance with NMC and LTHT guidelines, whether written or computerised.
Promote and maintain positive working relationships between all staff, internal and external to the Trust, involved in the care of patients
Help to set, monitor and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including those standards defined in local and national guidance
Maintain a safe working environment
Ensure the safe use and efficient management of equipment and supplies
Promote compassionate evidence based practice, wherever possible
Work with Senior Sister / Charge Nurse to ensure that clinical governance processes at ward/dept level encompass measures to ensure the quality of the fundamental and essential aspects of care
Balance clinical risk and clinical decision making against context
Work with the Infection Prevention and Control Team and Facilities to monitor the environment to maintain and raise standards
Undertake duties on other wards or departments as and when required by the service
Act in such a way that safeguards the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times. Is familiar with and adheres to the LTHT safeguarding policies.
Quality Improvement
Has a responsibility to improve the quality and safety of our services. It is expected that in fulfilling a clinical leadership role you will be proactive in promoting and using the Leeds Improvement Method. Contribute to quality improvement programmes as required
Keep up to date with and communicate service developments, advances and research.
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.
Actively promote patient involvement and feedback within service improvements to promote a positive patient experience
Maintain and sustain the momentum of improvements until they are firmly embedded into the values and culture of the clinical area
Education and Training
Participate in personal appraisal and mandatory training at the required time periods
Help to ensure all new starters, inclusive of temporary staff, have a local induction to the clinical area
Help to ensure all staff have an individual performance development plan and a yearly appraisal
Help to ensure all nursing staff maintain mandatory and priority training requirement.
Support and facilitate re-validation for registered nursing staff, and self.
Promote a learning and development culture to the improve staff skills, knowledge and competence
Help to ensure the induction and development of staff
Promote a positive learning environment within the clinical area to support the development of knowledge and skills in learners.
Support and facilitate work-based inter-professional learning
This is not an exhaustive list of roles and responsibilities, and these may be subject to change with professional and service developments
THE LEEDS WAY VALUES
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
Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:
Commitment to delivering high quality evidence based care
Commitment to working in a multi-disciplinary team
Commitment to the clinical area, valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and creative working environment
Commitment to own development and the development of junior staff
WEST YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE TRUSTS (WYAAT)
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.
By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.
WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition.
INFECTION CONTROL
The jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal Infection Control Precautions. Hand hygiene must be performed before and after contact with patients and their environment.
HEALTH AND SAFETY / RISK MANAGEMENT
All staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service users. This includes complying at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed security and safer working procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust Incident Reporting system
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
The jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the individual needs of patients and their families. No person whether they are staff, patient or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
TRAINING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority. The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
COMMUNICATION & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Matron
Senior Sister/Charge Nurse
All grades of nursing staff
Allied Health Professionals
Medical staff
Facilities staff
SPECIAL WORKING CONDITIONS
i) PHYSICAL EFFORT:
Frequent standing, sitting, walking, kneeling and crouching to attend to patient needs
Responding to changes in the patient condition.
Patient care (e.g. drug administration).
Shift working.
Moving & Handling of patients and equipment on a daily basis.
Patients 10-120kg (with lifting aids).
Equipment medical equipment, specialised mattresses (weight 1-20kg).
ii) MENTAL EFFORT:
Continuous mental effort/concentration required in relation to responding to and meeting patients nursing care needs (e.g. for 8-12 hour shift).
Co-ordinating Ward/Dept activities in absence of Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
Responding to changing circumstances (e.g. changes in patient condition, prioritisation of workload).
Dealing with complex and changing care needs of patients within an acute hospital environment (includes communication with relatives/carers).
Calculating drug doses.
Robust verbal and written communication skills required at all times.
iii) EMOTIONAL EFFORT:
Exposure to difficult situations including death and dying, distressed patients and relatives/carers.
Dealing with complex workload.
Dealing with staffing issues/performance issues.
iv) WORKING CONDITIONS:
Temperature should be controlled, but may experience hot or cold work environment.
Smells dealing with body fluids.
Violence & Aggression may experience violence and aggression from patients and/or relatives/carers.
Infection Control exposure to patients with infections.
Job description
Job responsibilities
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Leadership
Support Senior Sister / Charge nurse in providing leadership to the clinical team
Support and inspire staff to provide efficient, effective, safe, quality care to patients
Deliver a positive patient experience
Promote the building of effective teams and collaboration between teams
Anticipate problems and take preventative or mitigating actions, or have contingency plans available
Assist in the line management of the nursing team, including individual and team performance, attendance, management and workforce planning
Help to ensure the effective deployment of staff is mapped against the flow of patients to provide safe and effective care
Support and participate in local and trust-wide recruitment events
Help to manage the use of bank and agency
Support the senior sister / charge nurse to Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events
Support in the delivery of an effective, safe, quality service within budgetary envelope
Raise and respond to concerns with regards to risk, danger, malpractice or wrongdoing by following the LTHT whistle blowing policy and supporting processes
Deputise for Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in their absence
Clinical
Act in accordance to the Nursing and Midwifery Councils Code: Professional Standards Practice and Behaviour (March, 2015)
Fulfils the requirements as directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to maintain and revalidate registration
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
Ensure that documentation standards are maintained in accordance with NMC and LTHT guidelines, whether written or computerised.
Promote and maintain positive working relationships between all staff, internal and external to the Trust, involved in the care of patients
Help to set, monitor and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including those standards defined in local and national guidance
Maintain a safe working environment
Ensure the safe use and efficient management of equipment and supplies
Promote compassionate evidence based practice, wherever possible
Work with Senior Sister / Charge Nurse to ensure that clinical governance processes at ward/dept level encompass measures to ensure the quality of the fundamental and essential aspects of care
Balance clinical risk and clinical decision making against context
Work with the Infection Prevention and Control Team and Facilities to monitor the environment to maintain and raise standards
Undertake duties on other wards or departments as and when required by the service
Act in such a way that safeguards the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times. Is familiar with and adheres to the LTHT safeguarding policies.
Quality Improvement
Has a responsibility to improve the quality and safety of our services. It is expected that in fulfilling a clinical leadership role you will be proactive in promoting and using the Leeds Improvement Method. Contribute to quality improvement programmes as required
Keep up to date with and communicate service developments, advances and research.
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.
Actively promote patient involvement and feedback within service improvements to promote a positive patient experience
Maintain and sustain the momentum of improvements until they are firmly embedded into the values and culture of the clinical area
Education and Training
Participate in personal appraisal and mandatory training at the required time periods
Help to ensure all new starters, inclusive of temporary staff, have a local induction to the clinical area
Help to ensure all staff have an individual performance development plan and a yearly appraisal
Help to ensure all nursing staff maintain mandatory and priority training requirement.
Support and facilitate re-validation for registered nursing staff, and self.
Promote a learning and development culture to the improve staff skills, knowledge and competence
Help to ensure the induction and development of staff
Promote a positive learning environment within the clinical area to support the development of knowledge and skills in learners.
Support and facilitate work-based inter-professional learning
This is not an exhaustive list of roles and responsibilities, and these may be subject to change with professional and service developments
THE LEEDS WAY VALUES
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
Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:
Commitment to delivering high quality evidence based care
Commitment to working in a multi-disciplinary team
Commitment to the clinical area, valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and creative working environment
Commitment to own development and the development of junior staff
WEST YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE TRUSTS (WYAAT)
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.
By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.
WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition.
INFECTION CONTROL
The jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal Infection Control Precautions. Hand hygiene must be performed before and after contact with patients and their environment.
HEALTH AND SAFETY / RISK MANAGEMENT
All staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service users. This includes complying at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed security and safer working procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust Incident Reporting system
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
The jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the individual needs of patients and their families. No person whether they are staff, patient or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
TRAINING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority. The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
COMMUNICATION & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Matron
Senior Sister/Charge Nurse
All grades of nursing staff
Allied Health Professionals
Medical staff
Facilities staff
SPECIAL WORKING CONDITIONS
i) PHYSICAL EFFORT:
Frequent standing, sitting, walking, kneeling and crouching to attend to patient needs
Responding to changes in the patient condition.
Patient care (e.g. drug administration).
Shift working.
Moving & Handling of patients and equipment on a daily basis.
Patients 10-120kg (with lifting aids).
Equipment medical equipment, specialised mattresses (weight 1-20kg).
ii) MENTAL EFFORT:
Continuous mental effort/concentration required in relation to responding to and meeting patients nursing care needs (e.g. for 8-12 hour shift).
Co-ordinating Ward/Dept activities in absence of Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
Responding to changing circumstances (e.g. changes in patient condition, prioritisation of workload).
Dealing with complex and changing care needs of patients within an acute hospital environment (includes communication with relatives/carers).
Calculating drug doses.
Robust verbal and written communication skills required at all times.
iii) EMOTIONAL EFFORT:
Exposure to difficult situations including death and dying, distressed patients and relatives/carers.
Dealing with complex workload.
Dealing with staffing issues/performance issues.
iv) WORKING CONDITIONS:
Temperature should be controlled, but may experience hot or cold work environment.
Smells dealing with body fluids.
Violence & Aggression may experience violence and aggression from patients and/or relatives/carers.
Infection Control exposure to patients with infections.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience at staff nurse level or equivalent
- Working with a wide range of professionals including medical, nursing and management colleagues
- Local and national nursing agenda.
- For further essential criteria please see job Specification
Desirable
- Change management/improvement projects.
- Clinical Experience within the specialty.
- Awareness of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Compassionate and caring
- Capable of lateral thinking
- Motivator of self and others Positive approach to change
- Assertive Courageous Flexible Adaptable
- Able to manage and identify stress in self and others Team player
Desirable
- Excellent written and verbal skills.
- Ability to organise and prioritise own and others workload
- Leadership and management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
- Organisational skills Time management skills Quality improvement skills
Other
Essential
- Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for post
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RN Adult for adult clinical areas or RN Child for childrens areas (Level 1 or 2)
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Understanding of training needs in relation to post
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience at staff nurse level or equivalent
- Working with a wide range of professionals including medical, nursing and management colleagues
- Local and national nursing agenda.
- For further essential criteria please see job Specification
Desirable
- Change management/improvement projects.
- Clinical Experience within the specialty.
- Awareness of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Compassionate and caring
- Capable of lateral thinking
- Motivator of self and others Positive approach to change
- Assertive Courageous Flexible Adaptable
- Able to manage and identify stress in self and others Team player
Desirable
- Excellent written and verbal skills.
- Ability to organise and prioritise own and others workload
- Leadership and management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
- Organisational skills Time management skills Quality improvement skills
Other
Essential
- Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for post
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RN Adult for adult clinical areas or RN Child for childrens areas (Level 1 or 2)
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Understanding of training needs in relation to post
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Employer's website
https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Employer's website
https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Details
Date posted
07 November 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
C9298-ACC-118
Job locations
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Supporting documents
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