Nurse Team Leader- Endoscopy

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader Endoscopy who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Endoscopy unit is located at the Lister hospital, running four procedure rooms, and a further two procedure rooms at the New QE2 site.

We offer an Endoscopy service seven days a week, and an emergency on-call service 24/7, including weekends and Bank Holidays.

You will provide efficient, safe and effective service for all patients and carers attending the endoscopy unit.

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

Act as a leader of the nursing team in providing a high standard of evidence based care.

Conduct Appraisals, Return to Work / Sickness interviews and Management referrals in a timely manner. Monitor and manage staff absence.

Support the endoscopy NTMs, deputise for them in their absence
Establish and maintain good effective communication. Links with the multidisciplinary team, specialist nurse, office staff and wards.

Actively be involved in Retention and Recruitment of staff to support the service.

Complete weekly allocations maintaining safe staffing levels, and create opportunities for staff to complete their competencies

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

• 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

• Recognized management training/course

Previous ExperienceEssential criteria

• Post registration experience
• Manage day to day running of the unit/ward
• Evidence of developing one’s own specialist, clinical Role within endoscopy.
• 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.

Desirable criteria

• Management of staff sickness.

SkillsEssential criteria

• Evidence of team management skills
• Flexible
• Utilization 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 organizational skills.
• Self-awareness
• Assertiveness
• Time management.
• Technically minded
• Delegation and overseeing designated services- PEG and Pre- assessment
• Strategic development
• Computer literacy

Desirable criteria

• Authorship of research publications
• Strong leadership and motivational skills.
• Evidence to lead and manage change.
• Negotiation skills.

KnowledgeEssential criteria

• A 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.
• 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.
• Knowledge of National Bowel cancer screening program.

Desirable criteria

• Awareness of Health care associated infections within the setting of Endoscopy
• Interview or recruitment experience.

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, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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