Job summary
- Main area
- Acute & Specialist Medicine
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-2266
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust wide
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £75,328 - £86,114 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Nurse - Acute & Specialist Medicine
Band 8b
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an exceptional and highly experienced senior nurse to join Acute & Specialist Medicine as Lead Nurse for Acute Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital. This is a pivotal leadership role within the Directorate Management Team.
The post holder will provide strategic, professional, clinical and operational nursing leadership across a broad and complex portfolio, while working closely with Emergency Department colleagues to strengthen urgent and emergency care pathways.
The successful candidate will work in partnership with the Lead Nurse for Specialist Medicine, Clinical Director, General Manager, Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing and wider multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, high-quality and compassionate care, improve patient flow and experience and drive sustainable service improvement.
We would welcome applications from experienced senior nurses who are ready to provide visible leadership, work collaboratively across urgent and emergency care, and lead the next phase of Acute Medicine development.
Main duties of the job
- Strategic and professional leadership
- Provide visible, compassionate and inclusive nursing leadership across Acute Medicine.
- Contribute to directorate, divisional and Trust strategy, translating priorities into clear and measurable delivery plans.
- Lead service redesign and transformation, ensuring clinical quality, workforce sustainability and operational performance remain aligned.
- Provide professional advice and assurance to senior leaders on nursing, quality, safety and patient experience.
- Lead the quality, safety and governance agenda across the portfolio.
- Ensure effective systems are in place to review incidents, complaints, patient feedback, audits and quality indicators, with clear learning and action.
- Promote a culture of continuous quality improvement, innovation, openness and accountability.
- Maintain strong oversight of regulatory standards, professional practice and compliance with Trust policies.
- Champion co-production and ensure the patient and carer voice informs service improvement
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
- Master's degree or equivalent senior-level knowledge and experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to senior nursing leadership
- Recognised leadership or management development, or equivalent experience
- Recognised teaching, assessing or practice education qualification, or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Master's qualification completed or working towards completion
- Formal quality improvement, project management or coaching qualification
- Advanced clinical practice or speciality-related qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial senior nursing leadership experience at Band 8A level or above
- Senior experience within Emergency Care, Acute Medicine or Specialist Medicine
- Leading large teams and complex services across multiple clinical areas
- Delivering quality improvement, transformation and sustained service change
- Quality governance, patient safety, risk management, complaints, audit and regulatory assurance
- Managing patient flow, workforce pressures and competing operational priorities
- Workforce planning, safe staffing, recruitment, retention and staff development
- Budget management, business planning and delivery of productivity or efficiency plans
- Working collaboratively with senior multidisciplinary, corporate and system partners
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Virtual Ward, medical SDEC, discharge, elective or cross-site pathway development
- Experience of research, publication, conference presentation or academic partnership working
- Experience of leading Trust-wide programmes or committees
- Project management experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current NHS, nursing, urgent and emergency care, workforce and regulatory priorities
- Sound financial, resource and people-management skills
- High standard of written reporting, presentation and digital literacy, including Microsoft Office applications
Desirable criteria
- Root cause analysis or systems-based investigation skills
- Coaching, mediation or facilitation skills
- Knowledge of digital transformation, data visualisation or population health approaches
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Faz Ghooloo
- Job title
- Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 331 27995
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