Emergency Department Team Leader - London

Job overview

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Emergency Nurse to provide expert clinical and managerial leadership in the Emergency Department as a Band 7 Team leader for 6 months maternity cover .

You will be expected to work clinically in all areas of the department, including Resus, assessment and as Nurse in Charge, as well as to manage a team of nurses.

• To have overall responsibility for the operational activity on the shift, including proactive management of issues to support performance of the ED 4-hr operational standard.
• To act as the professional role model, leading and co-ordinating the nursing team.
• To have shift responsibility for the management and organisation of the ward/department within the available resources.
• To be accountable for the overall provision of excellent nursing care and to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.

• If you are looking for an exciting career that is both challenging and rewarding we at St George's Emergency Department are looking for a new band 7 team leader.
• The department sees a wide variety of patients from minor injuries to major traumas.
• As a team leader you will uphold the trust values while maintaining a high quality, safe emergency nursing care.
• You will be responsible for the day to day running of the department while showing leadership and clinical expertise.
• The Trust is one of only four designated Major Trauma Centres in London, with a helipad providing direct access to the ED for the most seriously injured patients.
• You will be expected to help manage safety and flow in the department and achieve government targets and key performance indicators.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the job description carefully to ensure that you meet the criteria as you are required to have significant senior ED experience.

You are required to have significant senior ED experience. Interview date to be confirmed.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• • RN (Adult) or RN(Child)
• • Core post-registration emergency Nursing Education (Acutely unwell Adult or Child, Emergency Practice or equivalent).
• • Practise assessor
• • BSc or evidence of study at level 6 with ability to complete BSc
• • Safeguarding level 3
• • ATNC, ETC or equivalent (or able to undertake within 6 months)
• • ALS

• • MSc or evidence of study at level 7.

Experience

• • Extensive post registration experience.
• • Experience of managing a team.
• • Previous Band 6 experience within the speciality.

• • Experience of audit and/research

Skills

• • Well-developed leadership skills.
• • Ability to effectively prioritise and organise own workload and workload of others
• • Demonstrates good written & verbal. communication skills
• • Demonstrates effective teaching skills
• • Work confidentially within all areas of the ED

• • Management course

Others

• • Enthusiasm for specialty
• • Effective role model
• • Adaptable and responsive to changing needs.
• • Must be articulate and able to liaise with members of the department.

• • Understanding of Quality Assurance and Clinical Audit