Nurse Team Leader - Ward 10B

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (Enherts-TR); Stevenage; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Here at East and North Hertfordshire 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 - Ward 10B who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Ward 10B is a thirty bedded medical ward, specialising in endocrinology and diabetology.

If you want to expand your knowledge and enhance your skills, this is a great opportunity to be part of a great team with a variety to progress in your career development as a leader.

To support the team and to ensure that we provide high quality of care to our patients, we aim to have Band 6 Nurse Team leaders on duty over a 24-hour period.

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

We are looking for an experienced Band 5 or 6 nurses to join our 30 bedded Diabetes and Endocrine ward.

Knowledge and skills in caring for Diabetes and Endocrine patients are essential.

We would also like the candidate to demonstrate effective leadership styles and be effective in managing the team as well as ensuring all patient quality indicators are achieved and maintaining support in a very busy multi-disciplinary environment.

You will work collaboratively with the senior team in Diabetes and Endocrinology to deliver effective high-quality safe patient-centred care.

You will support the continuing education, training, and professional development for the ward staff, to promote the acquisition of new skills and knowledge ensuring that nursing staff acquire and maintain the professional standards and competencies when caring for people.

Provide supervision and leadership to nursing staff under the guidance of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurses.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

• First level nurse on Part 1 of the NMC register, educated to diploma level.
• Relevant clinical post-registration education to include a recognised renal course and mentorship qualification.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning.
• Evidence of leadership training / development.
• Relevant health care related degree.

Previous Experience

• Significant experience caring for patients requiring general/endocrine nursing.
• Involvement in audit/research and willingness to present findings at meetings and conferences.

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively – excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Evidence of leadership and motivational skills, ability to lead and motivate a team.
• Demonstrates a flexible approach, able to react to the changing needs of the department.
• Ability to use negotiating skills in a positive manner to influence change within the department.
• Ability to liaise and work with the multidisciplinary team, making recommendations to enhance the smooth running and management of the department.
• Representing Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in their absence.
• Understanding of scheduling and capacity.
• Ability to manage self and others in delivery of own work and related clinical outcomes to meet department expectations.

Knowledge

• Has an understanding of managing a ward.
• Awareness of current developments in pre and post-registration nursing.
• Understanding of risk management, health and safety and other clinical governance issues.
• Knowledge of local and national health care initiatives/innovation to improve patient care, experience and safety.
• Computer literate - relevant ward setting.
• Understanding of expenditure and budget management.

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

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background.

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.