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.
The nurse team leader will support the home therapies patient program, providing high quality, effective, individualized care through the assessment of patient care needs to develop, implement and evaluate them with supervision.
prioritise a program of education and training that is individualised to patients’ needs that ensures consistency, thoroughness and safety. To support the patient, independently planning safe transfer home in a timely manner.
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.
Carry out planned care and training for a group of patients without direct supervision.
Assess patient’s suitability for home therapy, mental, cognitive and physical ability.
Ensure the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence based, individualised patient care for patients.
Plan, organise, and allocate patients to the PD and HHD training programme according to individual suitability and clinical needs.
Prioritise and manage patient workload in line with referrals, in liaison with the senior nurse.
Use initiative when training targets are not being achieved, escalating concerns to the senior nurse in home therapies team at the earliest opportunity, and agreeing revised action plans.
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.
