Nurse Team Leader - Paediatrics

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 - Paediatrics who share/s our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

An exciting opportunity is available for an individual to develop into a Nurse Team Leader through a comprehensive 12-month development program. This program will include the establishment of SMART objectives and regular progress meetings to ensure successful completion and promotion into a Band 6 Team Leader role.

The position also involves completing an EPALS/APLS course within 12 months and fulfilling competencies set by the education team.

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 identify, assess, plan, implement and continuously evaluate the care of a defined group of patients, within the unit, in partnership with the child and family, ensuring that the highest standards of care are delivered to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual and social needs of each child and their family, facilitating a return to optimal health.

Undertake and develop knowledge and advanced skills within the clinical area, to enhance patient care and improve the patient experience and journey (i.e. administration of IV drugs, venepuncture, cannulation, CVAD, Immediate resuscitation etc.)

To complete the development program and all requirements set out over the 12 months, including regular 1:1 meetings with education or line management.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and 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 and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and 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

Qualifications/Training

• RSCN/RN Child with current NMC registration
• Evidence of ongoing dynamic professional development and application to practice
• Competed IV Administration training
• Student Assessor
• 100% Compliance with Mandatory Training
• Completion of Level 1 HDU course
• Level 3 Safeguarding training

• EPLS or APLS or equivalent
• Appraisal training
• Leadership course
• Completion of Level 2 HDU Course

Previous Experience

• 18 months post-registration experience in general Paediatrics at a junior management level
• Appraisal within previous 12 months

• Ability to prioritise, organise work load and delegate and supervise tasks appropriately
• Evidence of implementing and managing change
• Evidence of previous experience and efficacy in mentorship, teaching and assessing
• Experience and evidence of effectiveness in co-ordinating and managing patient care, the shift/unit and team.
• Ability to analyse, resolve issues and make sound judgements on clinical issues, using initiative, whilst demonstrating an awareness of own limits
• Experience of handling adverse incidents and complaints

Skills

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Negotiating skills and ability to build collaborative relationships
• Ability to work across professional team and organizational boundaries.
• Evidence of practical application of Trust and national documentation standards
• IT skills

• Excellent Leadership and Management skills
• Accredited appraisal skills
• Advanced competency in nursing skills, Central line management, Advanced Paediatric Life Support

Knowledge

• Sound theoretical and practical knowledge of acute/chronic Paediatric care and National standards
• Have an active Link Role

• Standard setting – development of Guidelines/Protocols
• Audit processes
• Experience of managing HR issues e.g. poor performance etc
• Update SafeCare

Other Requirements

• Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
• Positive, caring approach
• Ability to enthuse and motivate self and others
• Ability to initiate, manage and sustain change
• Effective time management
• Flexibility and responsiveness to change
• Ability to remain calm and focused under pressure in order to maximise outcomes.
• Evidence of actively encouraging participation of all staff
• Ability to empower others
• To be non-judgemental
• Evidence of self-awareness and reflective practice

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.