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 and be committed to improving service delivery and developing nursing practices for the children, young people and families who utilise our services.

The Children's Emergency Department (CED) and Children's Assessment Unit (CAU) are co-located units delivering all aspects of emergency care to approximately 29,000 children and young people per annum.

CAU is a 9 bedded unit and provides up to 24-hour care to children and young people who have been referred by a health professional for further assessment by a specialist doctor and or admission to hospital.

Within this area we also house an Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) who see's children with a range of minor injuries and illnesses.

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

To provide positive role modelling, clinical leadership and knowledge to facilitate, supervise and enable high, competent standards of safe, individualised, holistic, family centred care that is evidence based, in consultation and partnership with the child, their family/carers and the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), that recognises the distinct needs of children and young people and ensures the provision of privacy and dignity.

Assist in the safe, effective, efficient operational management of the department and nursing team, within allocated resources, undertaking delegated responsibility in the absence of the Ward/Dept Matron LD

Assist in the delivery and monitoring of robust infection control measures at ward/departmental level.

Assist in the delivery and monitoring of all quality indicators at ward/departmental level, including patient experience indicators and observation audits.

This post involves rotational duties over a 24-hour period.

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

Corey's 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

Corey's Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

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

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