Nurse Team Manager - Children's A&E and CAU | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Stevenage is seeking a Nurse Team Manager to lead the children's emergency care unit. This role involves providing effective leadership and ensuring high standards of individualised care. The ideal candidate will have a registered nurse qualification, experience in team management, and a commitment to quality improvement. The trust promotes a positive work-life balance and a flexible working environment. This position is integral to delivering compassionate care to young patients and their families.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Support for work-life balance

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience in managing teams in a clinical environment.
• Ability to innovate and lead quality improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective leadership and clinical expertise.
• Ensure high standards of individualised, holistic care.
• Manage operational responsibilities within allocated resources.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical expertise

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Postgraduate qualification in related field

Job description

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

The Children’s Emergency Department (CED) & Children’s Assessment Unit (CAU) are co-located units delivering all aspects of emergency care as well as a Children’s Urgent Care Centre (UTC).

In October 2022 we expanded and refurbished and as such are looking to expand our nursing team including our Nurse Team Manager posts to support clinically and managerially our growing nursing team.

Our friendly and talented team work flexibly between both the CED and CAU, and provide high quality emergency care to children and young people presenting with a broad spectrum of conditions.

CED has a separate Children's UTC area which is predominantly staffed with Children’s Emergency Nurse Practitioners and provides care to children and young people with minor injuries and illness.

Care is provided to acutely sick and injured children through the use of a major’s area which consists of 6 bed spaces. The department also has a dedicated ambulance entrance and a 2 bedded resuscitation area.

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.

The post holder will provide effective leadership, clinical expertise, knowledge, advice, and positive role modelling.

To innovate, develop, facilitate and supervise excellent standards of safe, individualised, holistic care that is evidence based, in consultation and partnership with the Child/Young Person (CYP), their family/carers and the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT).

To have continuing responsibility for the effective and efficient operational management of the above services within allocated resources.

Be accountable for the quality, delivery and monitoring of robust, infection control measures, nursing standards and nursing quality and patient experience indicators within all areas of day services.

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 need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

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

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Dec 2025.