Nurse Team Leader ODP - Radiology

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader ODP - Radiology who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Interventional Radiology is an expanding service providing excellent care now to include admission and recovery of elective patients and a continued emergency service for the Trust. This role may be of interest for nurses who have experience in either Radiology, Operating Theatres, Day Surgery, Endoscopy and or general surgical experience.

The team currently covers Monday to Friday but will expanding to provide a seven-day service, so candidates will be expected to work evenings and weekends as part of a rotation with other team members.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

To assist in the management and co-ordination of the Nursing Team in the Radiology Department.

To act as a role model for the clinical practice during interventions - effective time and resource management.

To participate as a member of the nursing team, providing a high standard of research based individualized care to all Radiology patients.

Provide advice and support to the team of staff working in all interventional areas in order to deliver a quality service that is linked to high standard of patient care.

To take charge of the Nursing Team in the absence of the Senior Sister, co-ordinate the worklist and liaise with Operational Leads.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Previous Experience

• Experience of post registration working in an acute trust environment.
• Evidence of experience in interventional skills with scrub and recovery experience.
• Pre-assessment skills for elective and emergency cases.
• Safe discharge of a patient

• Skill to demonstrate acting up for the sister/charge nurse in his/her absence
• Managing staff skill mix, work load and utilisation of working lists

Skills

• Can perform in the role of either scrub or circulating assistant, recovery person
• Adaptable and flexible approach to work
• Demonstrates clear communication
• Can delegate work when appropriate
• Ability to organize and prioritize
• Can perform effectively in an emergency situation
• Places value on the patient experience

• Has specialist skills in a relevant area of radiology and breast work
• Has leadership skills
• Can develop a group of people into a team
• Is self-aware
• Can participate in resource management
• Knowledge of monitoring conscious sedation patients in Radiology
• Experience in Pre-assessment

Qualifications / Training

• RGN /ODP
• Registration with NMC/HPC
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Evidence of mentorship and preceptorship training

• Continuing clinical qualifications/Cannulation/IV Drug Administration
• Management qualification

Knowledge

• Awareness of strategies for maintaining a safe environment for patient’s staff and visitors.
• Pre-operative/assessment skills for patient preparation

• Resource management awareness.
• Budget awareness

Other requirements

• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect

We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [email protected]

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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Secondments/Fixed term

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.