Nurse Team Leader - 11A Respiratory

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader - 11A Respiratory who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will be expected to demonstrate good effective leadership styles and be effective in managing teams, as well as ensuring that all patient quality indicators are achieved as well as providing support in a very busy multi-disciplinary environment to staff in order for them to obtain their competencies along with the relevant skills.

Provide excellent shift leadership and management of the designated ward/department when on duty, and lead a team of staff, in order to carry out delivery of care to a complex group of patients.

You will work collaboratively with the senior team in respiratory to deliver effective high quality safe patient centered care and will, when required, rotate between the respiratory support Unit and the ward as service needs dictate to gain invaluable experience participating in the respiratory environment.

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

You will support the continuing education, training and professional development for the respiratory 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.

Act as a role model and provide supervision and leadership to nursing staff under the guidance of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurses ensuring high standards of patient care at all times challenging and ensuring others challenge poor practice.

You will act in such a way as to promote a positive image of the Trust at all times and as such may need to represent the Sister/Charge Nurse with key stakeholders to promote this.

About us

At East & North Hertfordshire 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

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.

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Experience

• Extensive clinical and managerial experience within the field of respiratory nursing at Senior Staff Nurse level
• Current working knowledge and skills within a high dependency or critical care area
• Current experience working in respiratory assisting with NIV supporting recovery of patients following NIV, Optiflow and airway management.
• Evidence of or willingness to undertake conference presentations
• Experience in change management
• Experience of nursing within an acute clinical setting
• Experience in managing a ward/department, including management of staff, Rota, staff competencies, resources.

Skills

• Effective shift leadership ability
• Ability to deliver multidisciplinary education at department level and to assess at degree level
• Organizational skills - Evidence of team management skills
• Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
• Ability to perform peripheral cannulation and venipuncture

Qualifications

• Registered nurse on part 1 or 12 of the NMC register
• Mentorship and preceptorship qualification or equivalent
• Appropriate post registration course relevant to respiratory
• Evidence of continued professional development in relevant areas of specialty
• Working towards a degree at higher level

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£37,338 to £44,962 a year (pro rata)