Senior Sister / Charge Nurse

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., 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.

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.

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

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