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 Nurse Team Leaders to join our Pirton HASU team, who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Are you an experienced Registered Nurse within an urgent and emergency care setting, who strives in a busy, demanding work environment and is looking to take the next step in your nursing career? If so, this may be the role for you!
Based in Pirton/HASU, you provide expertise and compassionate leadership in the delivery of high quality and safe patient-centre care and support an open culture of continuous learning for all.
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
As a 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered nurse on part 1 or part 12 of the NMC register
* ATLS, ALS, ILS and ATNC
* Evidence of professional development and commitment to life long learning
* Ability to produce personal professional portfolio
* Appropriate post registration certificates eg. Advanced Health Assessment and diagnostic indicators Course
* Triage training
* Leadership Training
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
* Experience in the management of Adult and Adolescent Mental Health presentations
* Experience in the management of deteriorating patients
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
Skills
* Evidence of triage competencies
* Evidence of effective team working skills
* Excellent time management and organizational skills
* Demonstrable understanding of professional nursing issues
* Understanding of skill mix and workload patterns
* Budget management skills and experience
* Experience of managing HR issues relating to staff
* 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
* Able to demonstrate and understanding of emergency professional standards
* Awareness of clinical governance issues
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. 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.
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.
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