# Senior Charge Nurse – Same Day Emergency Care > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-charge-nurse-same-day-emergency-care/2fa3c6fe-4560-4789-b4be-af9939fc205f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-charge-nurse-same-day-emergency-care/2fa3c6fe-4560-4789-b4be-af9939fc205f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital (The Bays) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Charge nurse - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-30T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-16T12:50:56.106Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8300517 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8300517?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the SDEC at St Mary’s Hospital as a Senior Charge Nurse and unit leader. You need to be passionate about providing high quality, emergency same day care in this fast paced, evolving and exciting area of acute emergency care. You must have excellent communication skills and be excited about being part of an innovative nursing team. This is an exciting time to join Same Day Emergency Care as we increase the numbers of patients attending the service. We see approximately 60-70 patients a day on each site, with varying presentations including renal colic, DVT, cellulitis, low risk chest pain and many more. We work closely with the Emergency Department, taking many patients from the Urgent Care Centre and ED triage, as well as patients from General Practice, London Ambulance Service and 111. As Senior Charge Nurse for SDEC, you will lead the delivery of high-quality, safe and compassionate care, support the implementation of new ways of working, and collaborate with the wider multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes and experience. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong clinical expertise in emergency nursing, excellent patient assessment skills and sound management knowledge. They will provide visible, consistent leadership, communicate effectively and build positive working relationships across the department and wider organisation. ### Main duties of the job - To provide sound clinical leadership and develop support mechanisms for sharing good practice within the clinical setting and Trust wide. - Maintain and promote effective communication both verbally and in writing with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and other Wards or Departments, including formal presentation of information relating to your service. Communication will take place using formal and informal methods. - Work within the clinical area, managing episodes of care as own/joint/ shared caseload, discharging patients as per protocol. - Maintain and update own clinical expertise and contribute as role model to ensure the delivery of nursing care is at highest possible level to meet patient care. - To be actively involved in the development of Trust policies and procedures, providing specialist input, leading their implementation and reinforce their use. - To take the lead in ensuring compliance to Trust policies and procedures amongst the multi-disciplinary team. - Have continuing responsibility for the provision of a suitable, clean, uncluttered and safe environment for the physical and psychological wellbeing of staff, patients/clients and their relatives. ### 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. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial experience in Emergency Department / Medical or Surgical Assessment unit / Urgent Care Centre at band 6 level **Desirable** - Same Day Emergency Care experience ### Education/ qualifications **Essential** - Registered Nurse –Degree level - ILS - Emergency Care/ Recognising the deteriorating patient modules or similar **Desirable** - ALS - Leadership course ### Skills/knowledge/ abilities **Essential** - Ability to work under pressure - Advanced interpersonal skills - Leadership skills. - Effective time management for self and others - Evidence of applying current research to practice. - Able to manage difficult situations effectively. - Able to prioritise and meet deadlines. - Able to use own initiative. - Demonstrate the ability to compile complex written information - Understanding of Microsoft office including Excel and PowerPoint **Desirable** - Experience of effective collaboration with leaders of other health and care disciplines ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 377.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10619759) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirement form (doc, 899.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10619760) ## 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.