Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Senior Sister/Charge Nurse to lead a 12-bed Infectious Diseases Unit. You will provide visible clinical leadership, ensuring safe, high-quality, patient-centred care, while developing a multidisciplinary team.

You will oversee care delivery, support infection prevention, and drive service improvement in collaboration with specialist teams across the Trust.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with NMC registration and current practice
• Experience leading a ward or unit in acute medicine
• Demonstrated ability to deliver improvements in patient care
• Ability to mentor and develop multidisciplinary staff

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and operational leadership for a 12-bed Infectious Diseases Unit.
• Oversee assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
• Lead audit, risk management and governance to improve patient safety.
• Develop staffing, resources and budgets with workforce planning.
• Promote evidence-based practice and professional development.

Skills

Prioritisation & problem solving

Autonomy & team working

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Decision making & escalation

Clinical leadership

Elderly & Intermediate Care

Cannulation & phlebotomy

Infection prevention & control

Education

Nursing diploma/degree or equivalent

Job description

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

The closing date is 17 November 2026

Closing Date: 17.11.26(this may change dependent on response)

Shortlisting to take place in the week following closing date: commencing 18.11.26

Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 23.11.26

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Ward Manager to lead our 12-bedded multi-specialty Infectious Diseases Unit, comprising single rooms that support the safe care of patients requiring isolation and specialist infection management.

As Ward Manager, you will provide visible clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and compassionate care. You will lead and develop a dedicated multidisciplinary team, promoting a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

The ward cares for patients requiring specialist infectious disease management, as well as patients from a range of specialties who require isolation due to transmissible infections. Working closely with specialist teams across the Trust, you will play a key role in supporting infection prevention and delivering outstanding patient-centred care.

We are seeking an experienced nurse leader with excellent communication and organisational skills, a passion for patient safety and staff development, and the ability to drive service improvement.

If you are looking for an exciting leadership opportunity and want to make a real difference to patients and staff, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide clinical and operational leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality, patient-centred care. They will oversee the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care, promoting evidence-based practice and positive patient outcomes.

The role includes supporting and developing staff, acting as a professional role model, and ensuring compliance with NMC standards, safeguarding requirements, infection prevention and control, and Trust policies. The post holder will monitor quality through audit, risk management, incident review and service evaluation, while promoting effective multidisciplinary working.

They will lead service improvement initiatives, implement policies and clinical pathways, and support innovation and change. Responsibilities include managing staffing, resources, equipment and budgets, alongside workforce planning, recruitment, staff development, appraisal and mandatory training. The post holder will foster a positive culture of learning, engagement, governance and continuous improvement.

About us

Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

• We are one team

We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Leadership

• Lead the delivery of safe, effective, evidence-based, patient-centred care.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care, ensuring positive patient outcomes and experience.
• Act as a clinical role model, providing expert advice and support to staff.
• Promote infection prevention, patient safety and risk management across the ward.
• Support the care of patients with frailty needs or undertake relevant training.

Quality, Governance and Patient Safety

• Monitor and improve standards of care through audit, quality improvement and clinical governance.
• Ensure compliance with Trust policies, professional standards and national legislation.
• Investigate incidents, support risk reporting and implement actions to improve safety.
• Manage complaints effectively and encourage patient and public involvement in service development.

Service Development

• Lead and support service improvement initiatives, policy development and implementation of best practice.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and efficiency while ensuring high-quality care.
• Contribute to business cases, service redesign and development of clinical pathways.

Financial and Resource Management

• Manage ward resources, equipment and budgets effectively.
• Monitor expenditure and identify opportunities for cost improvement and efficiency savings.
• Ensure equipment is maintained, safe and staff are appropriately trained.

Leadership and Workforce Management

• Provide visible leadership and line management for ward staff.
• Lead recruitment, retention, succession planning and workforce development.
• Ensure appropriate staffing levels, skill mix and staff deployment.
• Promote staff engagement, wellbeing, appraisal completion and mandatory training compliance.

Education, Training and Research

• Foster a positive learning environment and support professional development.
• Facilitate clinical supervision, mentorship and student learning.
• Promote evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research and sharing of best practice.

Professional Responsibilities

• Maintain NMC registration and continuing professional development.
• Comply with Trust policies relating to health and safety, equality and diversity, confidentiality, safeguarding and infection prevention and control.
• Work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality patient care.

Person Specification

Experience

• Acute medical nursing experience at Band 6
• Regularly in charge of a ward
• Delivered improvement in patient care
• Worked within a multidisciplinary team

Skills

• Ability to prioritise and problem solve
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• BLS trained
• Ability to make decisions and elevate appropriately
• Ability to challenge practice and support staff
• Knowledge and skills in Elderly and Intermediate Care
• Additional clinical skills e.g. cannulation, phlebotomy, intravenous drugs

Knowledge

• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
• Understands how acute medicine patient flow works

Qualifications

• Teaching and Assessing in practice qualification (FLIP/ENB 6590 /998)
• Diploma/Degree in Nursing or equivalent experience/ working towards

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.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust