Paediatric Nurse Team Leader

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Paediatric Nurse Team Leader to join our team at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing high-quality, compassionate nursing care to patients and their families in our Children's Emergency Department.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in paediatric nursing, with experience in leading and managing teams. They will be able to demonstrate excellent communication and leadership skills, as well as a commitment to delivering high-quality patient care.

The Children's Emergency Department is a purpose-built unit that provides a range of services, including paediatric resuscitation bays, major spaces, and an ENP service. The successful candidate will work closely with the department/ward manager and multidisciplinary team members to monitor and maintain policies, standards of nursing care, staff and service development within the unit setting.

Main Duties of the Job

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Prioritising and providing 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).
• Promoting an environment that reflects the psychosocial and developmental needs of children and young people, in terms of play, recreational facilities and educational provision.
• Undertaking the role of a Link Nurse for a given field within the department, when requested to do so, by the Ward or Matron.
• Complying 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.

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 SpecificationQualifications/TrainingEssential Criteria

• RSCN/RN Child with current NMC registration
• Evidence of further education, training and on-going learning
• Evidence of Paediatric Immediate Life Support Course
• Evidence of Safeguarding Level 3
• Evidence of Practice Assessor Course
• EPALS or APLS

Desirable Criteria

• Triage Competent
• Leadership Course

Previous ExperienceEssential Criteria

• Experience within an acute paediatric setting
• Experience and evidence of effectiveness in co-ordinating 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.

Desirable Criteria

• Previous Triage Experience
• Worked/Experience within an Emergency Department

SkillsEssential Criteria

• IV Administration
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to negotiate.
• Ability to lead and manage a team
• Medicines management competency
• Ability to work within a team
• Good self-awareness
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload
• Flexibility around working hours
• Accredited appraisal skills

Desirable Criteria

• Computer literacy
• Central Venous Access Device competent
• Venepuncture
• Cannulation
• Blood transfusion competent
• Paediatric HDU Level 1 course
• Children's and young people mental health course

KnowledgeEssential Criteria

• Understanding of sepsis and management
• Understanding of Children's Safeguarding
• Understanding of Respiratory illness and Equipment
• Children's and Young People Mental health
• Developed theoretical and practical knowledge of acute/chronic Paediatric care, Directorate, Trust and National policies.

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognising diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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