Sister/Charge Nurse

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Sister/Charge Nurse to lead nursing and support staff across urgent, medical and frailty services. The role supports the Unit Manager and focuses on maintaining excellence in patient care, experience and safety within the Same Day Emergency Care Unit and Medical Day Case Unit.

You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team, assessing, planning and coordinating care for acutely unwell patients, ensuring smooth patient flow across

Qualifications

• Experience in acute medicine or ED essential.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive management style within a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to delegate, organise and prioritise care delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and managerial leadership for nursing and support staff across the different units.
• Deputise for the Lead Nurse in their absence.
• Assist the Lead Nurse in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of services.
• Work clinically in all areas.
• Co-ordinate day and night shifts ensuring safe patient care and take referrals from the multi-disciplinary team

Skills

Acute Medicine experience

Emergency Department experience

Communication skills

Leadership

Staff management

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Continuing professional development

Postgraduate qualification relevant to post

ALS/ILS/AIMS

Recruitment and selection training

Job description

Go back Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Sister/Charge Nurse

The closing date is 20 September 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our continuously developing Urgent, Medical and Frailty Same Day Emergency Care Unit and Medical Day Case Unit.

The successful candidate will be instrumental in supporting the Unit Manager with the continuous improvement of the department, effectively monitoring and maintaining excellent standards of care that are reflected by patient experience. Experience in Acute Medicine or the Emergency Department is essential for this role to support staff with unwell patients and to lead by example to identify and act accordingly to the deteriorating patient.

You will work closely with the multi - disciplinary team receiving referrals for appropriate patients to come to the unit and sign post referrers to more appropriate services if required. You will play a pivotal role in patient flow 24 hours a day, not just within the unit but within the Accident and Emergency Department and the Acute wards.

You must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, you will have a proactive management style, anticipating and dealing with issues constructively within the multidisciplinary team setting. You must be flexible in your approach to the role and respond appropriately to the demands of an ever-changing fast paced workload.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical and managerial leadership for nursing and support staff across the different units.
• To deputise for the Lead Nurse in their absence
• To assist the Lead Nurse in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation or services
• To work clinically in all areas
• To co - ordinate day and night shifts ensuring safe patient care and take referrals from the multi - disciplinary team

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to thelocal community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification.

Any further information can be obtained by contacting the interviewers.

Qualifications/Training

• Registered Nurse Qualification
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Other post graduate qualification relevant to post
• ALS/ILS/AIMS
• Recruitment and selection training

Knowledge, experience & expertise

• Recent significant experience of working within Acute Medicine or Emergency Department
• Awareness of Must Do's
• To demonstrate comprehensive current acute medicine knowledge, skills and experience.
• Knowledge of future provision of services
• Knowledge of Same day emergency care (SDEC)
• Knowledge of electronic patient record
• Recent experience in undertaking staff appraisals

Communication & relationships

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrates professional leadership skills
• Ability to delegate, organise and prioritise care delivery
• Ability to work under own initiative and as part of a team
• Works within budgetary parameters

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.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust