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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and inspirational senior nurse to join Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as Lead Nurse for the Trauma Directorate.
This high-profile role provides professional and operational leadership across a diverse portfolio of services including Major Trauma, Orthopaedics, Neurosurgery, Plastics and Limb Fitting Services. Working in partnership with the Clinical Director, General Manager and Divisional Director of Nursing, you will drive the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred care while supporting service transformation, performance improvement and workforce development.
You will provide visible leadership to matrons and nursing teams, championing excellence in patient experience, safety, governance and staff engagement. You will lead quality improvement initiatives, support service redesign, contribute to business planning and ensure services are responsive to the changing needs of patients and the wider health system.
We are seeking an enthusiastic Registered Nurse with substantial senior leadership experience in complex acute services, a proven track record of delivering change, managing multidisciplinary teams and improving operational and clinical performance. You will possess excellent communication, influencing and organisational skills, alongside a strong commitment to developing others and fostering a positive and inclusive culture.
Main duties of the job
- Working closely with the wider leadership team, you will support the day-to-day operational management of services, ensuring safe, responsive and effective patient pathways. You will have oversight of workforce deployment, safe staffing and patient flow.
- Ensure agreed systems and process to consistently provide safe, effective high quality patient care and embed a culture of improvement, focusing on the Trust’s harm free indicators, measuring practice and using variations in the data to develop local improvement projects are in place.
- Ensure local plans support all clinical quality external accreditation, for Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards, Safety Thermometer, Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN), Quality Accounts, NHS Litigation Authority.
- Lead workforce planning, professional development, clinical leadership and recruitment and retention to reduce turnover. Ensure timely recruitment takes place with the aim of maintaining vacancy factor targets and remove reliance on temporary staffing.
- Ensure personal development and contribute to the work of the Trust through publications, presenting at Conferences and general internal and external networking.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of leading and developing a team
- Evidence of continual professional development.
- Improving projects
- Effective budget and staff management
- Proven success in delivering change and performance with and through management of local teams
- Extensive experience of patient experience and the resolution of complaints.
Desirable
- Project Management
- Experience of leading a large diverse team with competing challenge
Education/ qualifications
Essential
- HCPC/Registered Nurse
- Educated to postgraduate degree level or equivalent experience
- Management or leadership qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Masters level qualification
- Evidence of improvement formal training
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential
- Experience of quality, standard setting and audit
- Ability to lead and inspire a large team
- Organisation and management skills
- Ability to manage change & deal with complex and difficult situations
- IT Skills (including Microsoft Office packages and fast and accurate keyboard skills)
Desirable
- Ability to undertake root cause analysis
- Service improvement experience
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This advert is for Lead Nurse - Trauma directorate with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £75,328 - £86,114 pa inclusive. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 05 Jul 2026.
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