# Junior Sister/Charge Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/junior-sistercharge-nurse/ed8cd08d-222c-4c3c-b1c7-5f0e571cc768 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/junior-sistercharge-nurse/ed8cd08d-222c-4c3c-b1c7-5f0e571cc768.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** St James's University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Charge nurse - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-10-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-18T09:06:58.313Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9298-26-0973 - **Application URL:** https://vacancies.leedsteachinghospitals.jobs/Job/JobDetail?jobid=2153&source=JobtrainNHSJobs - **Employer website:** https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Code: Professional Standards Practice and Behaviour (March, 2015). - Knowledge of NMC and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust documentation standards, whether written or computerised. - Knowledge of clinical governance processes and measures to ensure the quality of fundamental and essential aspects of care. - Knowledge of infection prevention and control requirements, including Universal Infection Control Precautions and hand hygiene. - Knowledge of relevant local and national guidance relating to standards and quality of patient care. - Knowledge of safeguarding policies for children and vulnerable adults. - Knowledge of health and safety, risk management, incident reporting and safer working procedures. ### Experience **Essential** - Experienced nurse. - Experience of supporting change management. - Experience of supporting the development of the nursing team and junior staff. - Experience of working in an acute hospital environment, including dealing with complex and changing care needs of patients. - Experience of contributing to quality improvement programmes, audit, local research, metrics and feedback. ### Clinical Skills and Practice **Essential** - Ability to assess patient care needs and contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care. - Ability to deliver high quality compassionate care as an expert practitioner. - Ability to supervise ward staff with regard to clinical practice and patient experience. - Ability to promote compassionate evidence-based practice. - Ability to set, monitor and continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care. - Ability to maintain safe working practices and ensure the safe use and efficient management of equipment and supplies. - Ability to balance clinical risk and clinical decision making against context. - Ability to safeguard the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults and adhere to safeguarding policies. - Ability to respond to changes in patient condition and prioritise workload. - Ability to calculate drug doses. - Ability to undertake patient care, including drug administration, moving and handling patients and equipment, and shift working. ### Personal Qualities and Values **Essential** - Commitment to professional development and the development of the team. - 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 and encouraging a positive and creative working environment. - Commitment to own development and the development of junior staff. - Commitment to patient-centred, collaborative, fair, accountable and empowered ways of working. - Ability to provide compassionate, safe and quality care with the patient at the centre. ### Leadership and Management Skills **Essential** - Good leadership qualities. - Ability to motivate team members. - Ability to provide professional, clinical, managerial leadership and supervision for the nursing team. - Ability to act as a role model and provide a visible clinical lead. - Ability to assist with the effective management of a ward or department and deputise for the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in their absence. - Ability to support and inspire staff to provide efficient, effective, safe, quality care to patients. - Ability to build effective teams and promote collaboration between teams. - Ability to assist in the line management of the nursing team, including individual and team performance, attendance management and workforce planning. - Ability to anticipate problems and take preventative or mitigating actions, or have contingency plans available. ### Communication and Interpersonal Skills **Essential** - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. - Robust verbal and written communication skills required at all times. - Ability to maintain positive working relationships between all staff, internal and external to the Trust, involved in the care of patients. - Ability to communicate with patients, relatives/carers and members of the multidisciplinary team. - Ability to investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events. ### Physical, Mental and Emotional Requirements **Essential** - 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. - Ability to coordinate ward/department activities in the absence of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse. - Ability to deal with complex workloads and changing care needs. - Ability to undertake frequent standing, sitting, walking, kneeling and crouching to attend to patient needs. - 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. - Ability to deal with difficult situations including death and dying, distressed patients and relatives/carers, staffing issues and performance issues. - 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 **Essential** - Registered nurse, with registration maintained and revalidated in accordance with the requirements directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. - Undertake all mandatory training required for the role. - Commitment to Continuous Professional Development and personal development. ## Documents - [Job Description (DOC, KB)](https://vacancies.leedsteachinghospitals.jobs/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=3828&JobId=2153) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.