Nurse Team Leader - Renal, Home Haemodialysis

The post holder will deputise for the Senior Sister and/or Charge Nurse in their absence with regard to the operational management of clinical service delivery at unit level.

You will provide clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and support staff.

The successful candidate will contribute to the learning and development culture within the renal department, providing learning opportunities and assessment for staff.

You will also assess dialysis patients with their health and wellbeing needs, implementing care programmes accordingly. This includes interpreting the information available to identify the short and long term needs and risks.

The successful candidate may be based at either the CKC Dialysis Centre or Lister Hospital, or work across both sites, promoting Home Haemodialysis (HHD) options and supporting HHD patients.

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.

Essential: - First level nurse on Part 1 of the NMC register, educated to diploma level; - Relevant clinical post-registration education to include a recognized renal course and mentorship qualification; - Evidence of ongoing professional development and commitment to life-long learning; - Evidence of leadership training/development

Desirable: - Relevant health care related degree; - Health coaching

Essential: - Significant experience in caring for patients requiring renal nursing, demonstrating a special interest in home haemodialysis and sharing care practices; - Ability to act on own initiative with evidence of sound decision making abilities.

Desirable: - Involvement in audit/research and willingness to present findings at meetings and conferences.; - Knowledge in quality assurance of patient dialysis treatment; - Community care experience

Essential: - Ability to communicate effectively - excellent written and verbal communication skills.; - Evidence of leadership and motivational skills, ability to lead and motivate a team.; - Demonstrate a flexible approach, able to react to the changing needs of the department.; - Ability to use negotiating skills in a positive manner to influence change within the department.; - Ability to liaise and work with the multidisciplinary team, making recommendations to enhance the smooth running and management of the unit.; - Able to demonstrate an active role in teaching

Desirable: - Representing Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse in their absence; - Understanding of scheduling and capacity; - Ability to manage self and others in delivery of own work and related clinical outcomes to meet department expectations.; - Experience as mentor/preceptor to staff.

Essential: - Knowledge of current Trust wide and development of Health initiatives including the Trusts LEND and Trust pledges; - Awareness of current developments in pre and post registration nursing; - Understanding of risk management, health and safety and other clinical governance issues; - Knowledge of local and national health care initiatives/innovation to improve patient care, experience and safety.

Desirable: - Competent person - risk assessor; - Computer literate - relevant to renal department; - Understanding of expenditure and budget management

Essential: - Self-motivated.; - Ability to travel easily between different sites; - Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion; - Role model our Trust values every day