Job summary
- Main area
- Renal Home Dialysis
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-6364127
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/10/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/10/2024
Employer heading
Nurse Team Leader- Home Haemodialysis
NHS AfC: Band 6
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader in Home haemodialysis who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We currently have a total of 50 HHD patients and increasing. The job role includes teaching/training renal patients and home visits to our patients therefore the applicant must be able to travel easily to patients homes.
In particular we are looking for nurses with an interest in Home haemodialysis who are able to work effectively in a small, highly productive team. As a registered nurse and role model you will be working within a team of committed and hardworking nurses with a high level of professionalism.
This is an excellent opportunity within the Renal Department at ENHT.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
Duties will include delivering on the renal units’ strategy which promotes, engages and successfully achieves self-care in 15 % of patients on RRT.
Have commitment in achieving targets in numbers of patients on the Home Dialysis model of care through supporting education both in centre and in the outreach setting including in their place of residence (home/care home/prison/self-care area).
Provide excellent standards of nursing care and expertise, both in delivering direct patient care and in support of other staff caring for the higher needs and dependency of our patients.
Provide appropriate intervention, support and clinical expertise to deliver a safe clinical pathway that promotes high quality care through role modelling, expert clinical skills, promoting best practice, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and providing education.
Promote high standards of professional practice and the delivery of quality care within the corporate policies, protocols and guidelines. Provide clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and support staff.
Be a highly skilled clinical expert with specialised knowledge in caring for patients with complex needs. Home visits to HHD patients as a part of care pattern.
Working for our organisation
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
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role
Person specification
Qualifications / training
Essential criteria
- First level nurse on Part 1 of the NMC register, educated to diploma level.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development and commitment to life-long learning
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of caring for patients requiring renal nursing, demonstrating a special interest in peritoneal dialysis
- Ability to act on own initiative with evidence of sound decision making abilities
Desirable criteria
- Involvement in audit / research and willingness to present findings at meetings and conferences.
- Knowledge in quality assurance of patient dialysis treatment
- Community care experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively – excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Evidence of leadership and motivational skills, ability to lead and motivate a team
- Demonstrates 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.
Desirable criteria
- Representing Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in their absence
- Ability to manage self and others in delivery of own work and related clinical outcomes to meet department expectations.
- Able to demonstrate an active role in teaching
- Experience as mentor / preceptor to staff
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current Trust wide and Department of Health initiatives including the Trusts LEND and trust pledges
- 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 criteria
- Computer literate - relevant to renal department
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalia Storey
- Job title
- Nurse Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 286075
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