Job overview
We are recruiting for a Neonatal Nurse Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Neonatal Nurse Team Leader will provide clinical leadership and deliver safe, high-quality, family-centred care in line with Trust values.
The role involves coordinating the clinical area, supporting staff development, and promoting teamwork, compassion, and excellence.
The post holder will act as a role model, ensuring high standards of care and contributing to continuous improvement. The role includes long days, nights, weekends, and bank holiday 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
The Neonatal Nurse Team Leader will provide clinical leadership and expert neonatal care, ensuring safe, evidence-based and family-centred practice.
Coordinate the clinical area, manage staff and resources, and support workforce development through teaching and supervision.
Contribute to service improvement, governance, and patient safety, while maintaining effective communication with families and the multidisciplinary team.
Keep accurate and complete records of activities and communications consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
Participate in the teaching and supervision of junior team members and students. Actively promote educational development within the unit and service.
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
* RN/RM/RSCN with neonatal intensive care experienceDegree qualification
* Neonatal professional qualification
* Evidence of ongoing professional development
* Intravenous accreditation
* Achieved full KSF Outline for Band 5
Desirable criteria
* Degree qualification
* Assessing and mentoring qualification
* NLS provider course
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
* Proven experience of intensive and high dependency neonatal nursing reflecting evidence based practice.
* IT Skills.
* Interest in teaching and supervising of students and junior staff
Desirable criteria
* Previous ward management experience.
* Participation in audits
Skills
Essential criteria
* Ability to assess, plan, evaluate nursing care
* Ability to work well in both a team and lead a team.
* Competent in the care management of sick infants
* Ability to manage own case load
* Ability to plan and prioritise work
* Good verbal and non-verbal communication skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Ability to care for the sick newborn
* Understanding the importance of evidence based practice
* An understanding of the philosophies of current issues in neonatal nursing
Desirable criteria
* Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
* Motivated to learn and develop practices in neonatal care
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
* Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
* Role model our Trust values every day
* Caring and empathetic.
* Good interpersonal skills.
* Flexible and adaptable.
* Team worker
* Professional approach to work