Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-8358224
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton, Keighley
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Emergency Department Nurse Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
The post holder will be responsible for leading the nursing team on a day to day basis; coordinating the delivery of holistic patient care within the clinical environment, whilst supporting flow in terms of admissions, transfers and discharges to multiple points of contact.
Through clinical leadership, adherence of the Trust Right Care values and the utilisation of effective management skills, the Nurse Manager will ensure the department team is informed, trained and developed to enable the highest standards of evidence based and compassionate care to be delivered to our patients, their carers and families. They will support a collaborative, open and trusting communication style to all groups that the department communicates or interacts with from staff, to visiting teams and the individuals we care for.
The Nurse Manager will actively participate in the development of the department using innovation, challenge and evidence based practice/strategies to support forward growth, progression and value based care.
Main duties of the job
Provision of care
Quality and service improvement
People Management
Departmental Management
Personal and people development
Communication
Health, safety and security
Working for our organisation
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
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for leading the nursing team on a day to day basis; coordinating the delivery of holistic patient care within the clinical environment, whilst supporting flow in terms of admissions, transfers and discharges to multiple points of contact.
Through clinical leadership, adherence of the Trust Right Care values and the utilisation of effective management skills, the Nurse Manager will ensure the department team is informed, trained and developed to enable the highest standards of evidence based and compassionate care to be delivered to our patients, their carers and families. They will support a collaborative, open and trusting communication style to all groups that the department communicates or interacts with from staff, to visiting teams and the individuals we care for.
To actively participate in the development of the department using innovation, challenge and evidence based practice/strategies to support forward growth, progression and value based care.
The post holder must understand the core concepts of safe and effective patient flow through the Department and beyond the acute hospital, using their skills to promote and support the multidisciplinary team.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN with current NMC Pin
- Demonstrate professional post-registration development in clinically related subject
- Participate in management development courses
- Evidence of competency in teaching and assessing
Desirable criteria
- Recognised teaching/mentoring qualification
- Leadership qualification
- 1st level degree or evidence of working towards degree
- Management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience at Band 6 in a clinical environment for a minimum of two years or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrates knowledge of how an ED runs – staffing models, patient pathways, KPIs
- Evidence of continued professional development relevant to speciality
- Evidence of learning and development in line with NMC Revalidation requirements
- Evidence of departmental management demonstrating leadership and change management skills
- Evidence of development and delivery
- Recent experience in emergency nursing
Desirable criteria
- Audit
- Experience in complaints management
- Evidence of research based practice
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to accommodate the demands of the post with flexible working as required
- Provide evidence of promoting an environment of innovation and continuous improvement
- Provide evidence of supervising implementation of teaching programmes for the multidisciplinary team, e.g. preceptorship education, mentorship.
- Evidence of involvement in service development
- Ability to lead, influence and motivate others
- Influence and lead service developments
- Demonstrate positive verbal and written communication skills with multidisciplinary team / client / relatives
- Displays professional integrity and credibility
- Demonstrate a high level of personal/professional autonomy and understanding of professional accountability.
- Demonstrate a caring compassionate manner with an understanding disposition. Be interested and committed to caring for people from any type of cultural and environmental background or illness
- Demonstrate an understanding of leadership skills and the provision of an environment which encourages empowerment
- Demonstrate the ability to manage and implement change
Desirable criteria
- ED clinical skills set
- Writing and presenting business cases
- Research and audit experience
- Recruitment and retention experience
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
- Nicola Denbow
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294463
- Additional information
Informal visits positively encouraged prior to interview.
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