Senior Staff Nurse / Charge Nurse

NHS; Carshalton; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse for the Intensive Care Unit. This Band 6 role involves providing expert care for critically ill patients, leading a dynamic team, and ensuring high standards of care. Candidates must have completed a Specialist Critical Care Course and possess strong communication and leadership skills. The position offers an annual salary ranging from £44,485 to £52,521.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have completed a Specialist Critical Care Course.
• Degree in Nursing or currently working towards it is required.
• Management/leadership qualification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert hands-on care for critically ill patients.
• Assessment, planning, organization, and coordination of care.
• Leadership and support to staff in care delivery.

Skills

Good communicational skills, verbal, non-verbal & written

Good Teamworking Skills

Good management and leadership Skills

Education

Specialist Level 3 Critical Care Course

Degree in Nursing or currently working towards

Management / leadership qualification

Teaching and Assessing Qualification

Job description

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Senior Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse Intensive Care Unit - STH ICU

The closing date is 26 January 2026

Senior Staff/Charge Nurse Intensive Care Unit - STH ICU - Band 6

Are you an experienced intensive care nurse looking for a Band 6 role? We would love you to come and join our Critical Care Team at Epsom and St Helier University NHS Hospital.

We have vacancies available for motivated and enthusiastic intensive care nurses to join our team. We currently provide 13 beds at St.Helier ICU & 8 beds at Epsom ICU/HDU.

St.Helier ICU is a 13 bedded unit providing care for patients requiring emergency/scheduled general surgery, acute medical patients & those requiring renal support.

Epsom ICU/HDU is an 6-8 bedded unit providing level 2 high dependency care for surgical patients following elective surgery & medical patients. We have the ability to treat & transfer level 3 patients requiring Intensive care; working jointly with St. Helier Hospital ICU. Our HDU provides an Enhanced Recovery Pathway for patients following colorectal, urology, & gynaecological surgery.

The base site for this post is St. Helier ICU however, there is a requirement to work cross-site according to service needs.

Imagine working as a band 6 senior staff nurse within a friendly, forward thinking and dynamic team.

In order to fulfil the job role and learning requirements and meet service needs, successful candidates will be required to work cross-site, internal rotation days/nights/weekends & BH.

NB: Please note applicants must have completed a Specialist Critical Care Course.

Main duties of the job

• To provide expert hands‑on care for the critically ill patients and their families within Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, acting as an exemplary senior clinical role model.
• Provide assessment, planning, organisation and co‑ordination of care to Intensive Care and High Dependency patients.
• Internal rotation for all staff within the department with a minimum of 3 weeks day duty per rota.
• Provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning, delivery and evaluation of individualised care, creating a positive learning environment for junior staff, newly appointed staff and students, and provide supervision to junior staff and act as a mentor and assessor.
• To deputise for the band 7 Sister/Charge Nurse, taking charge of the unit as necessary, ensuring judicious use of resources and bed allocation between Level Three and Level Two care as a critical care resource internally and externally.
• To work in association with and support the Band 7 in defining standards of care and practice aimed at developing or improving quality of patient care.
• Responsible for coordination of the unit team and the maintenance of care strategy and philosophy through leadership and supportive managerial skills ensuring that all individuals strive to achieve a high standard of care.
• To act as an effective role model and assist in the professional leadership of an identified group of staff ensuring that practice, education, research and evidence‑based practice are strengthened.

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous post‑codes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting documents Job Description and Person Specification which contain more information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Specialist Level 3 Critical Care Course
• Degree in Nursing or currently working towards
• Management / leadership qualification
• Teaching and Assessing Qualification

Experience

• Recent Critical Care Experience , post completion of Critical Care Course
• Evidence of Quality Improvement Projects undertaken in clinical area

Development

• Evidence of on‑going professional development
• Development of enhanced Clinical Skills

Skills

• Good communicational skills, verbal, non‑verbal & written
• Good Teamworking Skills
• Good management and leadership Skills

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.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

£44,485 to £52,521 a year per annum inc HCAS