Senior Nurse In Surgery Division

Barts Health Nhs Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 73,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Senior Nurse (Band 8b) to provide strategic and operational leadership across Surgical Specialties, Imaging, Critical Care and Theatres in the Newham University Hospital division. The post drives safe, high-quality, patient-centered care with a focus on governance, research and continuous improvement.

The role leads matrons, specialist nurses and multidisciplinary teams to achieve clinical, workforce and financial objectives while aligning with

Qualifications

• Nursing degree with registration in the UK and Masters level education.
• Proven CPD activity and ongoing professional development.
• Leadership and teaching qualifications are desirable.
• Experience with PSIRF, quality governance and clinical audits.
• Ability to manage budgets, people and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong involvement in safeguarding, incident/risk management and change.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational nursing leadership across the division.
• Lead workforce planning, recruitment, retention and professional development.
• Drive quality, governance, patient safety and experience improvement.
• Champion evidence-based practice and research across services.
• Implement PSIRF and lead service transformation programmes.
• Work with Clinical Directors and senior leaders to meet targets.

Skills

Senior leadership

Strategic planning

Multi-disciplinary team leadership

Quality governance

Communication skills

Change management

Problem solving

On-call capability

Budget & people management

Infection control knowledge

Education

Degree in relevant branch of nursing

Educated to Masters

Leadership qualification

Recognised teaching & assessing qualification

PSIRF investigator training

Project management training

Tools

PSIRF methodology

IT literacy

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Division's senior nursing leadership team as our Senior Nurse (8b).

We are seeking an high quality focused, compassionate and innovative Senior Nurse to lead nursing services across various Surgical Specialties, Imaging, Critical Care and Theatres.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic leadership team and play a pivotal role in shaping the delivery of safe, high-quality, and patient-centred care across a diverse portfolio of services.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Nurse for Surgical Specialties, Imaging, Critical Care and Theatres provides strategic and operational nursing leadership across the division, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate patient care while maintaining high standards of quality, governance and patient experience. The post holder leads and supports matrons, specialist nurses and multidisciplinary teams to achieve clinical, workforce and financial objectives, translating Trust nursing strategy into measurable service outcomes. Key responsibilities include workforce planning, recruitment and retention, professional development, quality improvement, risk management, implementation of PSIRF methodology, and leading innovation and service transformation programmes. Working closely with Clinical Directors, General Managers and other senior leaders, the Senior Nurse promotes research, education and evidence-based practice, drives performance against key targets, ensures compliance with regulatory and professional standards, and champions a culture of continuous improvement, staff wellbeing, equality, diversity and patient-centred care.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm‑free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Details

Date posted: 16 September 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8b

Salary: £72,719 to £83,505 a year per annum inc

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Compressed hours

Reference number: 259-8191365NUH

Job locations: Newham University Hospital, Glen Rd, London, E13 8SL, United Kingdom

Job 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 documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in relevant branch of nursing
• Educated to Masters
• Ongoing CPD
• Leadership Qualification
• Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
• Coaching qualification
• PSIRF investigator training
• Project management training
• working within the specialty of critical care/acute care in a senior nursing role
• teaching, mentorship and supervision of staff practice development, including policy development
• Audit / research based nursing practice resource management, change management , Leading and developing a Team
• Experience managing safeguarding concerns.
• Complaints handling
• Delivering training to meet specified outcomes
• Trust wide initiatives/committee membership
• Working at a senior nursing level at band 8a
• Experience of analysing detailed information
• Experience in leading quality, governance, clinical audit and performance standards.
• Experience conducting QI projects successfully and follow through actions.
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• Ability to develop protocols and guidelines
• Understands the role of clinical governance and audit in high quality critical care
• Understands and implements PSIRF methodology
• clinical incident and risk management
• Budget and people Management.
• infection control issues
• Evidence of both theoretical and practical skills and competency in critical care/acute care management
• Ability to lead and inspire a large team
• Analyse complex information to make operational decisions.
• Evidence of leadership skills
• Able to utilise IT to full potential.
• Works under own initiative with good organisational skills, can work to deadlines.
• Articulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills
• Able to use problem solving skills
• Capable of working strategically.
• Ability to manage change and deal with complex and difficult situations.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings

Other

Essential

• Ability to act as a role model
• Creative, lateral thinker
• Able to participate on on-call senior management rota for site
• The ability to undertake reflective thinking on own practice
• Able to work flexibly across 24/7
• Enthusiasm / Motivation Sufficient to perform the duties of the post with reasonable adjustments

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Barts Health NHS Trust

Address: Newham University Hospital, Glen Rd, London, E13 8SL, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Associate Director of Nursing, Kim Watts, [e-mail], 07860946509

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

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