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 need to be flexible and have the drive and passion to bring ideas forward, lead on projects to improve patient journey through the service.
The Nurse Team Leader will be expected to 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.
The successful candidate 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.
The post holder will be expected to cover all areas in Children's Day Services.
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 Nurse Team Leader-Children's Day Services 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 Nurse Team 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
* 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 see attached Job Description and Person Specification Information Pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* 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
Essential criteria
* Sufficient Post-registration experience in general Paediatrics
* 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
Essential criteria
* 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
* Computer Literacy/ IT skills.
* Accredited appraisal skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* 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