NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area: Children's Day Services
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 23 hours per week
Job ref: 361-6834413
Site: Lister Hospital
Town: Stevenage
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/01/2025 23:59
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 - Children's Day Services who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be expected to be flexible and have the drive and passion to bring ideas forward, lead on projects to improve patient journey through the service. You will take an active role in the unit leadership in managing the service in line with the Trust values and improvements both identified and to be identified.
You will have exceptional communication skills and will demonstrate consistent positive role modelling to support developing both the team and our pre and post registration placements.
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 be an effective team leader and a positive role model for all members of the team.
The daily responsibility of leadership across Children's Day Services is required, and you will be responsible for ensuring that our services are of the highest quality, safe, effective and focused to our service users, and in guiding and supporting junior staff and support workers in providing excellent care.
You will be supported by the Ward Manager and the Senior Children's Nursing Team.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and 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 and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification Information Pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* RSCN/RN Child with current NMC registration
* Teaching and Assessing qualification
* Evidence of ongoing dynamic professional development and application to practice
* APLS/ EPALS or equivalent
Previous Experience
* Previous post registration experience within the relevant specialty
* Experience and evidence of effectiveness in coordinating and managing patient care
* Ability to prioritise, organise workload and delegate and supervise tasks appropriately
* Ability to analyse, resolve issues and make sound judgements on clinical issues, using initiative, whilst demonstrating an awareness of own limits
* Evidence of implementing and managing change
* Evidence of previous experience and efficacy in mentorship, teaching and assessing
* Experience of handling adverse incidents and complaints
Skills
* Excellent effective communication skills, both verbal and written
* Ability to negotiate, make decisions, organise and prioritise.
* Ability to lead and manage a team, and liaise with multidisciplinary team members
* Advanced competency in nursing skills i.e. Venepuncture, Cannulation, Central line management, wound dressing, Blood transfusion, drug administration
* Advanced Paediatric Life Support
* Ability to work accurately and work under pressure
* Ability to coordinate shift/department.
* Evidence of practical application of Trust and national documentation standards
* Accredited appraisal skills
Knowledge
* Developed theoretical and practical knowledge of acute/chronic Paediatric care, Directorate, Trust and National policies.
* Up to date knowledge of: 1. NMC Code of Professional Conduct 2. Safeguarding Children processes 3. Hand hygiene and Care bundles 4. Quality Indicators 5. Health and safety awareness 6. Clinical Governance and quality issues 7. Risk management 8. Equality and Diversity 9. HR Policies
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 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 resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
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.
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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.
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.
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