Nurse Team Leader - Ward 7B

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.

7B is a 30 bedded ward specialising in Colorectal and urology Surgery. We provide a variety of diverse and complex treatment Colorectal and Urology patients. As a Member of the team you will work on both the ends of our Ward.

We are committed to providing the best care possible to all patients.

Applicants must demonstrate excellent leadership and communication skills on a day to day basis. The successful applicant must deputise for the ward manager in their absence.

We offer various training that will enhance your leadership skills.

The post will require participation on weekends, bank holidays, days and nights for 24 hour nursing cover.

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.

The role of the band 6 requires you to be able to support the ward manager in leading an established team of nurses in providing high quality care to our pre and post op patients, with the additional skills of:

• Must work both days and nights, weekends and bank holidays and allocate staff according to skill mix
• Ensuring staff are completing daily quality control tasks, Audits.
• Excellent Communication and leadership skills and the ability to prioritise workload.
• Ensure high quality care is given each and every shift.
• Must lead by example and role model to junior staff
• Work as per NHS standards

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 be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

• Experience as a band 5

• Experience background in acute setting
• Surgical nursing experience
• Leading teams

• Organizational skills
• Ability to prioritise own work load

• Effective leadership
• Evidence of team management skills

• Self-motivated and ability to motivate and develop department

• NMC UK registration
• Mentorship and preceptorship qualification

• Leadership courses