Charge Nurse - Surgical Assessment Unit

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working and wellbeing

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work

Car lease schemes

Season ticket loan or membership forオン

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is launching a brand-new Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU) at Charing Cross Hospital. This Band 6 Charge Nurse role provides clinical leadership, supervises junior staff, and drives efficient patient flow in a fast-paced environment.

You will deputise to the Unit Matron, shape a multidisciplinary team, and establish clinical excellence in acute surgical care with opportunities for career development and flexible working.

Qualifications

• Nurse with surgical experience and leadership responsibility.
• Band 6 level with shift coordination duties.
• Experience mentoring Band 5 staff and healthcare assistants.

Responsibilities

• Oversee triage, assessment, stabilization, and care planning of acute surgical patients.
• Act as the regular shift coordinator, ensuring safe staffing and managing admissions/discharges.
• Mentor, precept, and audit practice of Band 5 staff, HCAs and student nurses.
• Serve as the core liaison between emergency doctors, registrars, consultants, and diagnostic teams.
• Ensure infection control, documentation, and patient safety compliance.

Job description

Are you an experienced surgical nurse looking to step into a pivotal leadership role?

We are incredibly excited to announce the opening of our brand-new, state-of-the-art Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU) at Charing Cross Hospital. This purpose-built unit will streamline the emergency surgical pathway, integrating closely with our Emergency Department and Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) pathways to deliver rapid assessments, diagnostics, and treatment without unnecessary admissions.

As a Band 6 Charge Nurse , you will be at the forefront of this new service launch. Working as a deputy to the Unit Matron, you will provide strong clinical leadership, supervise junior staff, and drive efficient patient flow through a fast-paced environment. This is a rare opportunity to shape a newly formed multidisciplinary team, build a collaborative culture from the ground up, and establish clinical excellence in acute surgical care.

We are currently recruiting for 1 full-time positions and 1 part-time position.

Informal visits are highly recommended.

• Clinical Excellence: Oversee the safe triage, assessment, stabilization, and care planning of acute surgical patients presenting with varied conditions (Colorectal, general Surgery, Urology, Plastics and ENT).


• Shift Leadership: Act as the regular shift coordinator (\"taking charge\"), ensuring safe staffing levels, coordinating admissions/discharges, and managing real-time patient flow.


• Team Development: Facilitate in mentoring, preceptoring, and auditing the practice of Band 5 staff nurses, healthcare assistants and student nurses.


• Interdisciplinary work:: Act as the core liaison between emergency doctors, surgical registrars, consultants, and diagnostic teams to maintain swift turnaround times.


• Quality & Safety: Ensure nursing practices strictly comply with Trust and NMC guidelines, maintaining very high standards of infection control, documentation, and patient safety.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

• career development


• flexible working and wellbeing


• staff recognition scheme


• Cycle to Work


• car lease schemes


• season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.