Nurse Team Leader - Children's Emergency Department

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will need to be flexible, enthusiastic, and passionate about emergency care, with a strong commitment to enhancing service delivery and advancing nursing practice for the children, young people, and families who rely on our services.

Our Children's Emergency Department (CED) and Children's Assessment Unit (CAU) are co-located, providing comprehensive emergency care to approximately 29,000 children and young people each year.

The CAU is a 9-bed unit offering up to 24 hours of care for children and young people referred by a healthcare professional for further assessment by a specialist doctor or for potential admission to hospital.

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 act as a positive role model and provide clinical leadership, offering expert guidance to support, supervise, and enable the delivery of safe, high-quality, individualised, and holistic family-centred care. This will be delivered in collaboration with the child, their family/carers, and the multidisciplinary team (MDT), with sensitivity to the unique needs of children and young people, ensuring dignity and privacy at all times.

In this role, you will support the safe, effective, and efficient operational management of the department and nursing team. You'll work within allocated resources and take on delegated responsibilities in the absence of the Ward/Department Matron or Lead Nurse.

Responsibilities include supporting the implementation and monitoring of robust infection prevention and control measures at ward or departmental level.

You'll also contribute to maintaining and improving quality standards by monitoring key performance indicators, including patient experience feedback and care observation audits.

This position requires participation in a rotational shift pattern over a 24-hour period, including nights, weekends, and bank holidays, to meet the needs of the service.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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:

o The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

o New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

o Hertford County, Hertford

o Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

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.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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