Charge Nurse​/Ward Sister

Charge Nurse/Ward Sister

The closing date is 20 January 2026

The Older People's Inpatient Service at The Mount has a fabulous opportunity to join our inpatient dementia team. We welcome experienced nurses who are passionate about older adult care and making a difference in people's lives. You will want to develop as a charge nurse/sister and hold an enthusiasm for service development and leadership, and be naturally highly motivated, caring, compassionate and proud to work with older adults living with dementia.

The Mount has four wards, (two dementia assessment, two functional mental health), dedicated to the delivery of safe and effective care to the older adult population of Leeds, priding ourselves on our excellent mental health and our outstanding physical health care. We currently have a vacancy on our female dementia ward.

On the ward you would join a multi-disciplinary team in providing high standards of care to service users and working closely with carers/families. This role gives you the opportunity to develop your excellent clinical skills and will offer you more experience of operational leadership. We offer comprehensive on-going support and professional development to all our staff including appraisals, personal development plans, short term & long term study opportunities & a robust clinical supervision structure.

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

The Older Peoples Inpatient Service provides inpatient care, assessment and treatment to service users living with dementia and service users with functional mental health needs such as diagnosis of depression or psychosis. We aim to provide effective person centered care to all service users and offer an individualized care plan that both aids in recovery and promotes wellbeing. We also aim to work in partnership with service users to both maintain a persons skills and personhood but also work in promoting coping strategies.

You will provide strong leadership to your team on a day to day basis, providing staff with monthly supervision, annual appraisal and offering expertise and support regarding patient flow ensuring effective care and timely appropriate discharges from the ward.

As Charge Nurse, you will be responsible for assisting the Ward Manager in all duties relating to the overall wider responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting and role modelling of standards of care across the teams.

An essential aspect of the role will be to take a lead in designated areas of practice across the Unit, working with the Service Matron and Ward Manager to develop an action plan, identify training and development needs and consider audit requirements in relation to this area (e.g medicines management, purposeful admission, educational lead). You will also take an active role in project work to achieve high standards of clinical care e.g. Dementia Care Mapping and best practice in dementia care, Promoting wrap or recovery focused models of care.

• Registered RNMH

• Extensive experience of working at at least a band 5 level

• desire to work with older people with mental health problems and/or Dementia

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust