Nurse Team Leader - Emergency Department

Integrated Care System; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic healthcare organization is seeking a Nurse Team Leader for the Emergency Department to provide high-quality, patient-centered care. The ideal candidate will have a strong clinical background, excellent communication skills, and the ability to lead a multidisciplinary team. This role involves ensuring the highest standards of care, participating in patient assessment, and supporting nursing staff in their development. If you are ready for a challenge and to make a real difference in patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a degree and relevant post-registration training.
• Previous experience working in an Emergency Department.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Shift coordination in critical areas of the Emergency Department.
• Ensure high standard of patient care and compliance with policies.
• Collaborate with staff to manage bed availability and discharge timely.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Flexible

Ability to work within a team

Sound organisational skills

Excellent clinical skills

Ability to work alongside staff and influence change

Education

Registered Nurse

Degree to BSc level

Post registration course in teaching/assessing and mentorship

A&E/ Emergency Care course or equivalent

Job description

Go back East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Nurse Team Leader - Emergency Department

The closing date is 04 August 2025

We are recruiting for Nurse Team Leaders who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Are you an experienced nurse ready for a new challenge in a fast-paced, dynamic environment? Join our team in the Emergency Department at Lister Hospital.

We are seeking for motivated ED and ward nurses to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care to individuals requiring further observation, assessment, or treatment. You will work alongside a multidisciplinary team, contributing to clinical decisions, patient recovery, and timely discharge.

Bring your expertise, compassion, and commitment to make a real difference in patient care.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the shift co-ordination of one of the key areas within the emergency department e.g. Streaming and Triage, Ambulance Handover, Resus, Majors and CDU.

You will ensure that patient care is of the highest possible standard and provide advice and support to all staff working in the area.

You will be responsible for the development, monitoring and auditing of standards for use in the clinical area.

You will ensure that care delivered in the clinical area is of the highest quality, supported by research and in accordance with local and national policies, procedures and guidelines.

The successful candidate will collaborate with other key staff in the clinical group, maintain effective use of bed availability by timely and effective admission and discharge.

About us

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

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.

Job responsibilities

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

Please note that the Trust cannot provide sponsorship.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

• Registered Nurse
• ILS
• Post registration course in teaching/assessing and mentorship
• A&E/ Emergency Care course or equivalent
• Degree to BSc level
• TILS
• ALS provider
• ATNC attendance
• Practice Assessor and Supervisor

Previous Experience

• Previous experience of working in an ED department
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Experience of assessing and teaching pre-registration students
• Experience in supporting and developing unregistered nurses
• Currently working in an acute environment within the NHS
• Nurse in charge/Management experience
• Commitment to learning

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Flexible
• Ability to work within a team
• Sound organisational skills
• Ability to work alongside staff and influence change
• Excellent clinical skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to be adaptive and responds well in times of stress
• Streaming and triage skills
• The ability to evolve within the role and lead and support colleagues during periods of change within the clinical setting
• Competent within the role to meet individual needs of clients including cultural sensitivities, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
• Evidence of progression and development in ED and acute medicine skills
• Grow Together trained

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust