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Job requirements
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Essential
54 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Code: Professional Standards Practice and Behaviour (March, 2015).
- Knowledge
Knowledge of NMC and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust documentation standards, whether written or computerised.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of clinical governance processes and measures to ensure the quality of fundamental and essential aspects of care.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of infection prevention and control requirements, including Universal Infection Control Precautions and hand hygiene.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of relevant local and national guidance relating to standards and quality of patient care.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of safeguarding policies for children and vulnerable adults.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of health and safety, risk management, incident reporting and safer working procedures.
- Experience
Experienced nurse.
- Experience
Experience of supporting change management.
- Experience
Experience of supporting the development of the nursing team and junior staff.
- Experience
Experience of working in an acute hospital environment, including dealing with complex and changing care needs of patients.
- Experience
Experience of contributing to quality improvement programmes, audit, local research, metrics and feedback.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to assess patient care needs and contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to deliver high quality compassionate care as an expert practitioner.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to supervise ward staff with regard to clinical practice and patient experience.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to promote compassionate evidence-based practice.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to set, monitor and continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to maintain safe working practices and ensure the safe use and efficient management of equipment and supplies.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to balance clinical risk and clinical decision making against context.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to safeguard the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults and adhere to safeguarding policies.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to respond to changes in patient condition and prioritise workload.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to calculate drug doses.
- Clinical Skills and Practice
Ability to undertake patient care, including drug administration, moving and handling patients and equipment, and shift working.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Commitment to professional development and the development of the team.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Commitment to delivering high quality evidence-based care.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Commitment to working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Commitment to the clinical area, valuing the contribution of all team members and encouraging a positive and creative working environment.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Commitment to own development and the development of junior staff.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Commitment to patient-centred, collaborative, fair, accountable and empowered ways of working.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Ability to provide compassionate, safe and quality care with the patient at the centre.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Good leadership qualities.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to motivate team members.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to provide professional, clinical, managerial leadership and supervision for the nursing team.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to act as a role model and provide a visible clinical lead.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to assist with the effective management of a ward or department and deputise for the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in their absence.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to support and inspire staff to provide efficient, effective, safe, quality care to patients.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to build effective teams and promote collaboration between teams.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to assist in the line management of the nursing team, including individual and team performance, attendance management and workforce planning.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to anticipate problems and take preventative or mitigating actions, or have contingency plans available.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Robust verbal and written communication skills required at all times.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Ability to maintain positive working relationships between all staff, internal and external to the Trust, involved in the care of patients.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Ability to communicate with patients, relatives/carers and members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Ability to investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events.
- Physical, Mental and Emotional Requirements
Ability to sustain continuous mental effort and concentration in relation to responding to and meeting patients' nursing care needs during an 8–12 hour shift.
- Physical, Mental and Emotional Requirements
Ability to coordinate ward/department activities in the absence of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
- Physical, Mental and Emotional Requirements
Ability to deal with complex workloads and changing care needs.
- Physical, Mental and Emotional Requirements
Ability to undertake frequent standing, sitting, walking, kneeling and crouching to attend to patient needs.
- Physical, Mental and Emotional Requirements
Ability to move and handle patients and equipment on a daily basis, including patients weighing 10–120kg with lifting aids and equipment weighing 1–20kg.
- Physical, Mental and Emotional Requirements
Ability to deal with difficult situations including death and dying, distressed patients and relatives/carers, staffing issues and performance issues.
- Physical, Mental and Emotional Requirements
Ability to work in conditions involving body fluids, infection risk and possible violence and aggression from patients and/or relatives/carers.
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Registered nurse, with registration maintained and revalidated in accordance with the requirements directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Commitment to Continuous Professional Development and personal development.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job summary
You will have excellent communication and leadership skills, and the ability to demonstrate recent change management and implementation. You will be supporting the Band 7 Senior Sister to lead the team working on SAU and help to promote a positive, safe working environment that provides the best care possible for the patients. You will help to lead on aspects of patient safety, supporting staff and lots of improvement work that is currently underway on SAU. Previous experience at Band 6 would be an advantage, but it is also an opportunity for a Band 5 to further develop their career and leadership skills. You must demonstrate effective organisational skills and an ability to remain calm under pressure, with a positive attitude, acting as a positive role model. Effective service delivery requires staff to be flexible and be able to work full rotating shift patterns. Candidates should have current NMC registration and extensive experience at Band 5. Management experience is desirable but not essential. If you feel that you have the correct skills and attitude for this post, please complete an application or contact the Band 7 Senior Sister for more details. Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a seconded Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to come and join our team on the Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU) at St Jamess University Hospital within the Abdominal Medicine and Surgery CSU. We currently have a very dynamic, passionate team who are striving to provide high quality care to acute patients requiring urgent surgical/gastroenterology and urology assessments/interventions. This would be an ideal opportunity for a Band 5 Registered Nurse looking to gain some additional leadership and management experience.
About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.
Details
- Date posted: 18 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 002150
- Job locations: St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
For questions about this job, contact:
Name Katherine Omand- Barker Position Senior Sister Email Katherine.omand-barker@nhs.net Phone number 0113 2060963 Shortlisting Date: 21/09/226 Interview Date: 01/10/2026
Job Summary
Give a short summary of the role and why this person should work for you. Potential applicants will read this first, so inform, engage and excite. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a seconded Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to come and join our team on the Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU) at St James’s University Hospital within the Abdominal Medicine and Surgery CSU. We currently have a very dynamic, passionate team who are striving to provide high quality care to acute patients requiring urgent surgical/gastroenterology and urology assessments/interventions. This would be an ideal opportunity for a Band 5 Registered Nurse looking to gain some additional leadership and management experience.
Why you should join our Team
SAU is a fast-paced acute assessment area caring for acute admissions within the General Surgical, Urology, Colorectal and Gastroenterology specialties. We assess patients who are referred by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Emergency Departments (ED) and via Primary Care Access Line (PCAL) in which patients are referred by Leeds GP surgeries. In addition to SAU, you will also work on the Ambulatory Surgical Centre (ASC) where patients are seen directly by a consultant following a referral from the GP or ED.
SAU and ASC are both dynamic, high-pressure environments and are constantly striving for excellency and a high standard of patient care. If you are an individual who is keen to progress and develop through contributing new ideas for service improvement and helping to lead a hard-working team, then this is an ideal role for you.
What you will bring to the role
You will have excellent communication and leadership skills, and the ability to demonstrate recent change management and implementation. You will be supporting the Band 7 Senior Sister to lead the team working on SAU and help to promote a positive, safe working environment that provides the best care possible for the patients. You will help to lead on aspects of patient safety, supporting staff and lots of improvement work that is currently underway on SAU. Previous experience at Band 6 would be an advantage, but it is also an opportunity for a Band 5 to further develop their career and leadership skills. You must demonstrate effective organisational skills and an ability to remain calm under pressure, with a positive attitude, acting as a positive role model.
Effective service delivery requires staff to be flexible and be able to work full rotating shift patterns. Candidates should have current NMC registration and extensive experience at Band 5. Management experience is desirable but not essential. If you feel that you have the correct skills and attitude for this post, please complete an application or contact the Band 7 Senior Sister for more details.
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our Trust values
The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.
We are….
Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind
Our Trust priorities
Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time
Our priorities:
People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes
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.
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This advert is for Junior Sister/Charge Nurse with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Leeds, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Charge nurse role. The advertised salary is £39959.00 to £48117.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Oct 2026.
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