Nurse Team Leader - Acute Medical Services

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 Nurse Team Leader who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals with relevant experience in Acute or Emergency Care, to come and work for the newly designed, Acute Medical Services Team within the UEC.

Acute medical Services Assessment and Acute medical services SDEC teams, will be working collaboratively to stream and triage patients through the Acute medical services departments.

As a Nurse Team Leader this role will be essentially clinical, managing flow, triage and clinical assessment of medical patients coming from GP services, the emergency department and SDEC

This post will require rotation on to night duty.

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

The Nurse Team Leader post is a vital and valued role within the multi-disciplinary team. Based in the Acute medical Services Assessment and Acute medical services SDEC teams, they provide expertise and compassionate leadership in the delivery of high quality and safe patient-centred care and support an open culture of continuous learning for all.

As a Nurse Team Leader, you will ensure that patient care is of the highest possible standard and provide advice and support to all staff working in the area.

You will be responsible for the development, monitoring and auditing of standards for use in the clinical area. Ensuring that care delivered in the clinical area is of the highest quality, supported by research and in accordance with local and national policies, procedures and Guidelines.

Working in collaboration with other key staff in the clinical group, maintain effective use of capacity and resources including timely and effective admission and discharge.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS 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

Qualifications/Training

• Registered nurse on part 1 or part 12 of the NMC register
• Evidence of professional development and commitment to life long learning
• Ability to produce personal professional portfolio
• Mentorship/ Preceptorship course
• ATLS, ALS, ILS and ATNC

• Appropriate post registration qualification

Previous Experience

• Demonstrable experience within a busy urgent and emergency care environment
• Demonstrable experience as a registered nurse at Band 5
• Evidence of effective leadership
• Evidence of excellent and motivational teaching skills
• Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of settings with patients, relatives, carers, senior leaders and other members of staff of varying levels of understanding
• Ability to work to deadlines in a highly pressurised environment
• Ability to use sound judgement skills and when to escalate issues and problems

Skills

• Evidence of triage competencies
• Evidence of effective team working skills
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Effective IT skills
• Demonstrable understanding of professional nursing issues
• Understanding of skill mix and workload patterns

• Recent practice at similar level
• Budget management skills and experience
• Budget management skills and experience
• Experience of leading through change
• Evidence of involvement in audits

Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of specialty and common conditions/ treatments
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation
• Awareness of clinical governance issues.

• Able to demonstrate and understanding of emergency professional standards

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.

When you apply...

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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.