Joining our team offers the opportunity to develop your clinical leadership skills while working alongside experienced stroke specialists in a service that values collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. We are committed to supporting your professional development through leadership opportunities, education, quality improvement initiatives, and career progression pathways. You will be empowered to lead, inspire, and develop others while contributing to a positive team culture where every member is valued, respected, and supported to achieve their full potential.

What You Will Bring To The Role

As a Sister/Charge Nurse, you will:

• Provide visible clinical leadership and coordinate the day-to-day management of the Acute Stroke Unit.
• Lead by example, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, effective, and patient-centred stroke care.
• Manage patient flow, admissions, transfers, and discharges to support effective bed utilisation and patient outcomes.
• Act as a role model for professional practice, promoting the Trust's values and behaviours at all times.
• Support, supervise, motivate, and develop registered nurses, healthcare support workers, students, and newly qualified staff.
• Ensure appropriate staffing levels and skill mix are maintained to meet the needs of the service.
• Promote a positive learning environment and contribute to staff appraisals, competency assessments, and professional development.
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated care and effective discharge planning.
• Support the Senior Sisters in monitoring and improving quality and safety indicators, including pressure ulcer prevention, falls reduction, healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs), nutrition, hydration, and patient experience.
• Ensure compliance with national stroke standards, Trust policies, and evidence-based practice.
• Lead and participate in clinical audits, quality improvement projects, and service development initiatives.
• Monitor compliance with documentation, risk assessments, care planning, and clinical standards, implementing action plans where required.
• Analyse audit findings and support the implementation and evaluation of improvement programmes.
• Actively contribute to clinical governance and risk management processes, promoting a culture of continual improvement and learning.
• Represent the ward at Stroke Governance, Perfect Ward, quality, safety, and other relevant meetings in the absence of the Senior Sister.
• Investigate incidents, support learning from events, and contribute to the development of actions to improve patient safety.
• Support the management of complaints, concerns, compliments, and patient feedback to enhance the patient experience.
• Escalate clinical, operational, and staffing concerns appropriately and in a timely manner.
• Maintain effective communication with patients, relatives, carers, and members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensure the Acute Stroke Unit provides a safe, clean, and supportive environment that promotes recovery, dignity, and wellbeing.

About Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Our Trust Values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are…

• Responsible
• Open and Honest
• One Team
• Kind

Our Trust Priorities

Our Purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our Priorities:

• People
• Improvement and Innovation
• Partnerships
• Outcomes

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.