Job overview
We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader - Ward 5B who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This role is suitable for a person wanting to enhance their skills, knowledge and experience working with trauma Orthopaedic patients. Within this role to co-ordinate and deliver high quality, patient centred care while supporting the operational management of the team.
The job involves co-ordinating workloads, supporting staff development, promoting a positive team culture whilst ensuring effective communication within the multi-disciplinary team
This role will involve a mixture of days, nights, weekends and Bank Holidays.
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
The role also involves monitoring service improvements to the ward, managing risk and ensuring the safe delivery of an efficient service. The applicant needs to maintain a strong focus on patient safety, staff wellbeing and continuous improvement
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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
* 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 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. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please kindly see the main job overview and main duties of the job alongside the person specification and job description
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Registered nurse on part 1 of the NMC register
* Mentorship and preceptorship qualification or equivalent (or evidence of working towards it)
* Evidence of continued professional development in relevant areas of specialty
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of nursing within an acute clinical setting
Desirable criteria
* Clinical and managerial experience working on an surgical ward at Senior Staff Nurse level
* Current working knowledge and skills in the management of surgical patients, especially ENT, Plastics and Gynaecological surgical patients
* Experience of caring for patients with multiple co-morbidities, complex drug regime’s and complex discharge requirements
* Experience in managing a ward/department, including management of staff, rota, staff competencies, resources.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Effective shift leadership ability
* An effective communicator
* Leadership to drive quality of care within the multidisciplinary team
* Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
* Understanding of research and audit and a willingness to participate in these within the department
* Motivated, flexible individual with the ability to work autonomously.
* Ability to develop and coordinate departmental training programmes
Desirable criteria
* Organisational skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Good understanding of good quality patient care and patient safety
* Ability to work with all staff on a multiprofessional level, demonstrating up to date knowledge of practice development within surgical nursing.
* Broad knowledge of post-op care and the management of the surgical patient
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of computing skills
* Evidence of professional development and a proven commitment to the management of post-op surgical patient
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
* 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
* Excellent quality care consistently
Desirable criteria
* Role model our Trust values every day