Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Department
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 34.5 hours per week (1 x 34.5 hours per week & 1 x 23 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 423-8265427
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton, Keighley
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Junior Sister/Charge Nurse - Emergency Department (Band 6)
NHS AfC: Band 6
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2033. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
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Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic experienced staff nurse to join our team of existing Junior Sister / Charge Nurse’s. The post holder will support the Emergency Department nursing team in the care of patients, and will assist in the facilitation of the Trusts Emergency Care Standards and service development.
Our Emergency Department is good, but we want to be outstanding, so we know there is much work to be done. What we are looking for are superb nurses who will help us achieve our shared aim and the absolute desire of providing the very best emergency care to our local population.
We want to employ motivated and dedicated nurses who are seeking a career in emergency and urgent care nursing and have the aspiration and hunger to work in this acute and complex environment. We want nurses who will enhance the enthusiastic, dedicated and passionate teams who are ready and waiting to step up to the future exciting challenges of emergency nursing.
Main duties of the job
We understand that it is the hard work, effort & dedication of our nurses that makes the difference for our patients, so in return we can offer you a state of the art working environment. The emergency department includes all individual high dependency stretcher rooms. A four bay resus room with state of the art equipment, a specific dementia suite, an area for close observation & a separate waiting area & specific rooms for paediatric patients. We have our own xray facilities co located within the department, & we now have the innovative AAU within this urgent care environment.
We offer several development opportunities & routes to progression & advancement within your emergency nursing career. We have our own urgent care educators who can tailor your training to meet your individual requirements to advance & enhance your development.
Working for our organisation
Emergency nursing is a greatly rewarding profession with exciting future developments. The emergency department at Airedale General Hospital is the perfect location to begin or continue your emergency nursing career. As well as all the professional benefits, the locality has excellent provisions for the perfect home life; there are excellent transport links to the beautiful peaceful dales in one direction and the bustling city life of Leeds in the other. Both are literally on the door step.
Why would you settle for anything less, when you can have it all here at Airedale!!
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information and full details of the role please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse with NMC pin
- Significant post registration experience, with urgent / emergency care
- Complete ED clinical skills set
- Level 1 National Major Trauma Nursing Group Competencies
- Participating in the training & assessing of students & new starters
- Level 2 RCN National Curriculum & Competency Framework
- Understanding of clinical audit and governance
Desirable criteria
- ALS / TNCC / APLS
- BSc degree
- MSc degree
- Relevant post graduate qualifications
- Teaching and assessing (998 / SLIP / FLIP/ PEEP)
- Recognised leadership course
- Completion of Faculty of Emergency Nursing Modules
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of having or developing management skills
- Knowledge of current clinical or professional issues
- Experience of using IT and databases
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service improvement / transformational change
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cheryl Szulhan
- Job title
- Unit Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535292294
- Additional information
informal visits welcomed
This post is eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship when appointed on a full-time basis. Part-time appointments are not eligible for sponsorship as the pro-rata salary does not meet the minimum salary requirements for Skilled Worker sponsorship set by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI).
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