Nurse Team Manager - Children'S Ward

East And North Hertfordshire Teaching Nhs Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working patterns

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust in Stevenage is recruiting an experienced Nurse Team Manager for the Children's Ward. You will provide clinical and operational leadership to a growing paediatric service, oversee staffing, patient safety and governance, and drive improvements in care for children and young people.

You will lead the day-to-day management of the ward, champion multidisciplinary teamwork, mentor staff, and ensure safe, compassionate, family‑centred care in line with

Qualifications

• Significant post‑registration experience in general Paediatrics at a junior management level.
• Experience coordinating and managing patient care, the shift/unit and team.
• Ability to prioritise, organise workload and delegate and supervise tasks appropriately
• Evidence of implementing and managing change
• Evidence of mentorship, teaching and assessing
• Ability to analyse, resolve issues and make sound judgements on clinical issues
• Experience of handling adverse incidents and complaints
• Personnel management including recruitment, retention and appraisals
• Evidence of audit/research recommendations and/or QI project
• Sickness management
• Desirable: Experience caring for HDU level CYP
• Desirable: Previous ward management at Band 7
• Desirable: Budget and resource management

Responsibilities

• Lead the integration of the new HDU provision and support planning, mobilisation and transition into the new ward.
• Inspire and develop staff, champion innovation and evidence‑based practice, and ensure high standards of care during a period of growth and change.
• Provide visible clinical and operational leadership for safe, compassionate and family‑centred care for children and young people in partnership with families and the multidisciplinary team.
• Lead day‑to‑day management of the children's ward, maintaining high standards of clinical practice, patient safety, safeguarding, infection prevention and governance.
• Provide expert paediatric leadership, supporting staff development, clinical competency and delivery of high‑quality care across the ward and HDU service.
• Lead workforce planning, ensuring safe staffing, deployment, education, appraisal, supervision and mandatory training.
• Monitor quality, safety, incidents, complaints, audit and performance, embedding learning and continuous quality improvement.
• Promote collaborative multidisciplinary working and ensure children, young people and families are fully involved in decisions about their care.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical governance

Nursing management

Budget management

Mentorship/teaching

Team coordination

Risk management

Quality improvement

HR issues handling

Education

NMC registration (RNC/RSCN)

Degree/Masters in Nursing

APLS/EPLS or equivalent

Appraisal training

Safeguarding Level 3

Leadership/management training

Job description

Job summary

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

We are seeking an experienced, motivated and inspirational Children's Nurse Team Manager to provide clinical and operational leadership within our expanding children's services. This is an exciting time for the service, with two commissioned designated HDU spaces and an £11 million NHS England investment to build a new Children's Ward. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in leading service transformation while ensuring children and young people receive safe, compassionate and high-quality care.

The post holder will provide visible leadership to the nursing and multidisciplinary team, with responsibility for the day-to-day management of the ward, workforce, patient safety, safeguarding, clinical governance, quality improvement and patient experience. They will foster a positive, inclusive culture where children, young people and their families remain at the centre of all care.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of children's services, lead a dedicated team and make a lasting impact on the care and experience of children, young people and their families.

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

Working closely with the Matron and multidisciplinary colleagues, the post holder will lead the integration of the new HDU provision and support the planning, mobilisation and transition into the new ward. They will inspire and develop staff, champion innovation and evidence-based practice, and ensure high standards of care throughout a period of significant growth and change.

Provide visible clinical and operational leadership, ensuring safe, evidence-based, compassionate and family-centred care for children and young people in partnership with families and the multidisciplinary team.

Lead the day-to-day management of the children's ward, maintaining high standards of clinical practice, patient safety, safeguarding, infection prevention, governance and patient experience in line with the NMC Code, national standards and Trust policies.

Provide expert paediatric leadership, supporting staff development, clinical competency and the delivery of high-quality care across the ward and newly commissioned two-bed HDU service.

Lead workforce planning, ensuring safe staffing, effective deployment, education, appraisal, supervision and mandatory training.

Monitor quality, safety, incidents, complaints, audit and performance, embedding learning and continuous quality improvement.

Promote collaborative multidisciplinary working and ensure children, young people and families are fully involved in decisions about their care.

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.

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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.

Qualifications / Training

Essential

• RNC/RSCN Child with current NMC registration
• Evidence of ongoing dynamic professional development and application to practice
• EPLS or APLS or equivalent
• Appraisal training
• Level 3 Safeguarding training
• Degree/Masters in Nursing or working towards
• Management or leadership courses/training

Desirable

• Recognised Teaching and Assessing qualification

Previous Experience

Essential

• Significant post-registration experience in general Paediatrics at a junior management level
• Experience and evidence of effectiveness in co-ordinating and managing patient care, the shift/unit and team.
• Ability to prioritise, organise workload and delegate and supervise tasks appropriately
• Evidence of implementing and managing change
• Evidence of previous experience and efficacy in mentorship, teaching and assessing
• Ability to analyse, resolve issues and make sound judgements on clinical issues, using initiative, whilst demonstrating an awareness of own limits
• Experience of handling adverse incidents and complaints
• Personnel management including recruitment, retention and appraisals
• Evidence of implementation of audit/research recommendations and/or QI project
• Sickness management

Desirable

• Experience caring for HDU level CYP
• Previous management of a ward/unit at Band 7
• Budget and resource management

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Negotiating skills and ability to build collaborative relationships
• Ability to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
• Excellent Leadership and Management skills
• Accredited appraisal skills
• Evidence of practical application of Trust and national documentation standards
• IT skills
• Advanced competency in nursing skills, Central line management, Advanced Paediatric Life Support
• Budgetary management

Knowledge

Essential

• Sound theoretical and practical knowledge of acute/chronic Paediatric care and National standards
• Standard setting development of Guidelines/Protocols
• Audit processes
• Experience of managing HR issues e.g., poor performance etc
• SafeCare, Eroster knowledge
• Up to date knowledge of: o NMC Code o Safeguarding Children processes o Hand hygiene and Care bundles o Health and safety awareness o Clinical Governance and quality assurance issues o Risk management o Equality and Diversity o HR Policies

Other Requirements

Essential

• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staf
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
• Positive, caring approach
• Ability to enthuse and motivate self and others
• Ability to initiate, manage and sustain change
• Effective time management
• Flexibility and responsiveness to change
• Ability to remain calm and focused under pressure in order to maximise outcomes
• Evidence of actively encouraging participation of all staff
• Ability to empower others
• To be non-judgemental
• Evidence of self-awareness and reflective practice
• Ability to perform under pressure

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.

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