Nurse Team Leader- Children's

TN United Kingdom; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Nurse Team Leader for their Children's Emergency Department in Stevenage. This pivotal role involves overseeing compassionate nursing care, working closely with a multidisciplinary team, and ensuring high standards of patient safety and dignity. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership skills and a commitment to continuous improvement in patient care. Join a forward-thinking organization that values flexibility and innovation, and help shape the future of pediatric healthcare. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of children and their families.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC registration and evidence of ongoing learning.
• Experience in acute paediatric settings and effective patient care management.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of safe, holistic care in consultation with families and MDT.
• Promote an environment reflecting the needs of children and young people.

Skills

IV Administration

Excellent communication skills

Ability to lead and manage a team

Flexibility around working hours

Central Venous Access Device competent

Blood transfusion competent

Venepuncture

Cannulation

Education

RSCN/RN Child with current NMC registration

Evidence of further education and training

Evidence of Paediatric Immediate Life Support Course

Evidence of Safeguarding Level 3

Leadership course

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East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

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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 I nclude, R espect and I mprove. 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

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

• 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
• Triage Competent
• Leadership course

Previous Experience

• 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.
• Previous Triage Experience
• Worked/Experience within an Emergency department

Skills

• IV Administration
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to negotiate.
• Ability to lead and manage a team
• Ability to work within a team
• Ability to priorities and organise workload
• Flexibility around working hours
• Accredited appraisal skills
• Central Venous Access Device competent
• Venepuncture
• Cannulation
• Blood transfusion competent
• Paediatric HDU Level 1 course
• Children’s and young people mental health course

Knowledge

• Understanding of sepsis and management
• Understanding of Children’s Safeguarding
• Understanding of Respiratory illness and Equipment
• Childrens 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 [emailprotected]

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.