Job overview
We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Nurse Team Leader will provide an efficient, safe and effective, service for all the patients attending the endoscopy unit and act as a leader of the nursing team, in providing a high standard of evidence based care.
The post holder will support the endoscopy Nursing team managers, deputise for them in their absence. Demonstrate expertise and leadership, in the delivery of care to patients.
Actively support continued education, training, and development of all staff and to work in a collaborative manner with referring teams and support staff.
This role will involve weekend working, Bank holiday's and on call rota working.
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
Clinical Care: Undertake and oversee the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care for patients undergoing a wide variety of endoscopic procedures (e.g., gastroscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, ERCP).
Pre-Assessment: Manage and perform the pre-assessment of patients referred for urgent and routine endoscopy procedures to ensure they are medically fit and effectively prepared for their procedure, liaising with the multi-disciplinary team.
Procedure Support: Provide direct patient care and expert clinical assistance to endoscopists during procedures, ensuring patient safety and comfort.
Leadership and Management: Take charge of the endoscopy unit in the absence of a more senior nurse, coordinate shifts, supervise junior staff (Band 5 nurses, healthcare assistants, students), and ensure high standards of care are maintained.
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 see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
* Registered Nursing qualification on the NMC register
* Nursing degree qualification/ Apprenticeship or equivalent
* GCSE Grade A-C in Math’s & English or skills level 2 math’s & English or equivalent
* Commitment to lifelong learning.
* Ability to produce a personal professional portfolio.
* Mentorship/preceptorship training
* IT skills.
Desirable criteria
* Recognised management training/course
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
* Extensive post registration experience
* Manage day to day running of the unit/ward
* Evidence of developing one’s own specialist, clinical
* Fully compliant with all Endoscopy JETS competencies
* Evidence of training and mentoring staff and educating patients
* Responsibility for management and co-ordination of staff appraisals.
* Budget management stock control awareness.
* Utilisation of teaching skills
* Experience of prioritizing
* Evidence of excellent communication skills
* Understanding of research/Audit and experience of developing clinical practice.
* Ability to direct and work within a team.
* Sound organisational skills.
* Time management.
* Technically minded
* Delegation and overseeing designated services- PEG and Preassessment.
* Strategic development.
* Computer literacy
Desirable criteria
* Management of staff sickness.
* Negotiation skills.
* Evidence to lead and manage change
* Strong leadership and motivational skills.
* Authorship of research publications.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Good knowledge of Gastroenterological conditions and procedures
* Ability to identify risks and knowledge of risk assessments and the importance of Health and safety in Endoscopy.
* Awareness of Health care associated infections within the setting of Endoscopy.
* Knowledge of JAG/JETS/GRS
* Ability to write/review protocols/procedures
* Experience in dealing with complaints and incident reporting.
* Able to facilitate change.
* Working knowledge of managing Decontamination processes.
* Knowledge of standard setting and Audit.
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of National Bowel cancer screening program
* Interview or recruitment experience.
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
* Role model our Trust values every day