Job Details
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader Children's who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Children’s Emergency Department is purpose built and includes three paediatric resuscitation bays, 6 major spaces, and an ENP service co-located within the emergency department, seeing minor illness and injury, as well as a ten bedded children’s assessment and decision unit.
The Nurse Team Leader post is a vital and valued role to support in providing high-quality, compassionate nursing care to patient/clients and their families/carers. Based on a Children’s EDand Assessment Unit setting they work closely with the department / ward manager and multidisciplinary team members in monitoring and maintaining policies, standards of nursing care, staff and service development within the unit setting.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
You will prioritise and provide a high standard of safe, individualised, holistic, family centred care that is evidence based, in consultation and partnership with the child, their family/carers and the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT), that recognises the distinct needs of children and young people and ensures the provision of privacy and dignity at all times.
Promote an environment that reflects the psychosocial and developmental needs of children and young people, in terms of play, recreational facilities and educational provision. Ensuring specific provision for those with special needs
Undertake the role of a Link Nurse for a given field within the department, when requested to do so, by the Ward or Matron
Comply with quality indicators and infection control policies, standards and procedures, including hand hygiene and care bundles, ensuring that yearly updates are undertaken
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.
