Senior Nurse In Surgery Division

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Division's senior nursing leadership team as our Senior Nurse (8b).

We are seeking an high quality focused, compassionate and innovative Senior Nurse to lead nursing services across various Surgical Specialties, Imaging, Critical Care and Theatres.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic leadership team and play a pivotal role in shaping the delivery of safe, high-quality, and patient-centred care across a diverse portfolio of services.

The Senior Nurse for Surgical Specialties, Imaging, Critical Care and Theatres provides strategic and operational nursing leadership across the division, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate patient care while maintaining high standards of quality, governance and patient experience. The post holder leads and supports matrons, specialist nurses and multidisciplinary teams to achieve clinical, workforce and financial objectives, translating Trust nursing strategy into measurable service outcomes.

Key responsibilities include workforce planning, recruitment and retention, professional development, quality improvement, risk management, implementation of PSIRF methodology, and leading innovation and service transformation programmes. Working closely with Clinical Directors, General Managers and other senior leaders, the Senior Nurse promotes research, education and evidence-based practice, drives performance against key targets, ensures compliance with regulatory and professional standards, and champions a culture of continuous improvement, staff wellbeing, equality, diversity and patient-centred care.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm‑free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time.

It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Date posted: 16 September 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8b

Salary: £72,719 to £83,505 a year per annum inc

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Compressed hours

Reference number: NUH

Job locations: Newham University Hospital, Glen Rd, London, E13 8SL
, United Kingdom

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

• Degree in relevant branch of nursing
• Educated to Masters
• Ongoing CPD
• Leadership Qualification
• Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
• Coaching qualification
• PSIRF investigator training
• Project management training
• working within the specialty of critical care/acute care in a senior nursing role
• teaching, mentorship and supervision of staff practice development, including policy development
• Audit / research based nursing practice resource management, change management , Leading and developing a Team
• Experience managing safeguarding concerns.
• Complaints handling
• Delivering training to meet specified outcomes
• Trust wide initiatives/committee membership
• Working at a senior nursing level at band 8a
• Experience of analysing detailed information
• Experience in leading quality, governance, clinical audit and performance standards.
• Experience conducting QI projects successfully and follow through actions.
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• Ability to develop protocols and guidelines
• Understands the role of clinical governance and audit in high quality critical care
• Understands and implements PSIRF methodology
• clinical incident and risk management
• Budget and people…