Nurse Team Leader - Ward 6A

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Nurse Team Leader - Ward 6A

The closing date is 15 April 2026

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.

Ward 6A offers a fast paced working environment, and one where you will work with a wide varieties of medical conditions and specialities.

This is an exciting time to join our team as their are many developments happening within the department. You will enjoy a challenge where no two days are the same and join a team that is committed to providing the best possible individualised patient care.

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

We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic, innovative, flexible nurse with management qualities and excellent communication skills.

Leadership is also a key requirement of this position and you will be expected to work closely with your Ward Manager in the running of the unit, caring directly for patients and being a senior point of reassurance for the whole team and the patients in our care.

Promote high standards of professional practice and high quality care delivery within Trust and Departmental policies, protocols and guidelines.

In conjunction with the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, be responsible for the development and review of competencies, protocols and Care Pathways within the department.

Facilitate the development of junior nursing staff.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire 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

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 information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

We welcome the chance for you to see how our ward works and encourage you to visit us as part of your application.

Person Specification Qualification/Training

• Registered nurse on part 1 or part 12 of the NMC register
• Evidence of professional development and commitment to life long learning
• Ability to produce personal professional portfolio

Previous Experience

• Demonstrable experience as a registered nurse at Band 5
• Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of settings with patients, relatives, carers, senior leaders and other members of staff of varying levels of understanding
• Evidence of effective leadership
• Evidence of excellent and motivational teaching skills

Skills

• Evidence of effective team working skills
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Ability to work to deadlines in a highly pressurised environment
• Ability to use sound judgement skills and when to escape issues and problems

Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of speciality and common conditions/ treatments
• Demonstrable understanding of professional nursing issues.
• Understanding of skill mix and workload patterns
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation

Other Requirements

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• 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 staff
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Evidence of commitment to the Trust's values and the ability to demonstrate them at all times

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.