Senior Project Nurse

For questions about this job, contact:

Amy Copley

Lead Nurse

Amy.copley@nhs.net

Shortlisting Date: 09/07/2026

Interview Date: w/c 20/07/2026

Job Summary

Are you an experienced registered nurse passionate about ‘Growing and Developing’ our future workforce?

We have an exciting and unique position for a talented and motivated Senior Project Nurse to join our team, leading a portfolio of high impact programmes that directly support our Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) workforce and wider organisational priorities. This is a pivotal leadership role, offering the opportunity to influence workforce supply, retention, education, and experience across the organisation, working in close collaboration with Clinical Service Units (CSUs), system partners, and key stakeholders. The successful candidate will provide strategic and operational leadership across a diverse and dynamic portfolio, ensuring delivery of safe, high quality, and inclusive programmes that support individuals entering and developing within care roles.

You will lead a dedicated team to recruit, induct, and support individuals who are new to care, ensuring a structured, compassionate, and effective transition into clinical teams. You will be required work clinically, supporting the Emergency Department (ED) and a range of ward areas and departments, particularly during periods of heightened demand such as winter pressures. This clinical engagement enables you to develop a comprehensive understanding of frontline services, ensuring that learning and development programmes are responsive, relevant, and grounded in current practice.

Your clinical expertise will be integral to the Workforce Development team, where you will lead on a defined portfolio, shaping and delivering education and training that supports workforce capability and patient care outcomes.

This is a full time permanent position 37.5 hours and you will be based at Josephs Well Leeds and expected to work cross site

Why you should join our Team

The Workforce Development Team is a dynamic, forward thinking team dedicated to supporting the development, wellbeing and progression of the unregistered workforce across the Trust. We work in a fast paced but supportive environment, underpinned by a strong team ethos, where collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement are highly valued. The team takes pride in delivering high quality education and training programmes that are responsive to service need, ensuring staff are equipped with the skills and confidence to deliver safe, compassionate care. There is a clear commitment to professional growth, with opportunities to lead on programmes, influence workforce strategy, and work closely with clinical and operational colleagues across a wide range of specialties.

What makes this team special is the opportunity to combine strategic workforce development with hands on clinical practice, ensuring our work remains grounded in the realities of frontline care. The team is passionate, inclusive and driven, with a shared purpose to make a tangible difference to both staff experience and patient outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity to join a high performing, multiple award winning and supportive team where your expertise will be valued and your contribution will have Trust wide impact. If you are motivated by improvement, collaboration and delivering meaningful change, we would strongly encourage you to apply.

What you will bring to the role

As a Senior Project Nurse in the Workforce Development Team, you will bring strong clinical leadership and project management experience to deliver high quality education programmes for unregistered staff. You will work collaboratively across services, lead teams, and use data, evaluation and evidence based practice to drive improvement, assure workforce development KPIs, and support service transformation within an inclusive environment.

You will bring to the role:-

Strong clinical and professional leadership with the ability to lead workforce development programmes and influence practice across multiple services.

Proven experience in workforce education and training delivery, including designing and implementing high quality learning programmes that support clinical competency and service needs.

Ability to lead and manage projects, delivering against agreed timelines, KPIs and workforce priorities, with a focus on measurable outcomes.

Expertise in supporting the development of unregistered staff, including Care Certificate, new to care pathways, and progression routes.

Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with experience of working collaboratively with clinical teams, education providers and external partners to deliver shared objectives.

Strong analytical and reporting capability, able to monitor performance, interpret data and provide assurance on workforce metrics and programme impact.

Commitment to evidence based practice and quality improvement, with the ability to lead audit, evaluation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Experience of leading and developing teams, providing supervision, mentorship and professional leadership to educators and facilitators.

Demonstrable experience of leading vast recruitment cycles, supporting widening participation, inclusivity and respectful challenge.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.