Nurse Team Leader

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Stevenage is seeking a Nurse Team Leader to ensure high-quality care and lead a team of nurses. The role involves supporting the ward manager and requires strong leadership, organizational skills, and NMC UK registration. The successful candidate will work flexibly across days, nights, and weekends. This position promises ongoing training and a commitment to a positive work-life balance. Join a dedicated team focused on excellence in patient care.

Benefits

Various training programs

Flexible working patterns

Commitment to work-life balance

Qualifications

• Experience as a band 5.
• Self-motivated and ability to motivate and develop department.

Responsibilities

• Support the ward manager in leading an established team of nurses.
• Participate in weekend, bank holidays, days and nights for nursing cover.
• Ensure high quality care is given each shift.
• Lead by example and role model to junior staff.

Skills

Organizational skills

Ability to prioritise own work load

Effective leadership

Evidence of team management skills

Education

NMC UK registration

Mentorship and preceptorship qualification

Leadership courses

Job description

Job overview

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

7B is a 30 bedded ward specialising in Colorectal and urology Surgery. We provide a variety of diverse and complex treatment Colorectal and Urology patients. As a Member of the team you will work on both the ends of our Ward.

We are committed to providing the best care possible to all patients.

Applicants must demonstrate excellent leadership and communication skills on a day to day basis. The successful applicant must deputise for the ward manager in their absence.

We offer various training that will enhance your leadership skills.

The post will require participation on weekends, bank holidays, days and nights for 24 hour nursing cover.

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

Main duties of the job

The role of the band 6 requires you to be able to support the ward manager in leading an established team of nurses in providing high quality care to our pre and post op patients, with the additional skills of:

• Must work both days and nights, weekends and bank holidays and allocate staff according to skill mix
• Ensuring staff are completing daily quality control tasks, Audits.
• Excellent Communication and leadership skills and the ability to prioritise workload.
• Ensure high quality care is given each and every shift.
• Must lead by example and role model to junior staff
• Work as per NHS standards

Working for our organisation

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
• 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 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

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience as a band 5

Desirable criteria

• Experience background in acute setting
• Surgical nursing experience
• Leading teams

Skills

Essential criteria

• Organizational skills
• Ability to prioritise own work load

Desirable criteria

• Effective leadership
• Evidence of team management skills

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Self-motivated and ability to motivate and develop department

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC UK registration
• Mentorship and preceptorship qualification

Desirable criteria

• Leadership courses