Nurse Team Leader - Ward 6B

Main area Acute Renal Medicine Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (days and nights) Job
-UPL-8318265

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/11/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

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 6B offers an exciting environment within the renal department for acute inpatients care. This department is highly recognised, autonomous tertiary referral centre for renal medicine. This environment offers development in renal replacement therapy and managing acutely unwell renal patients that are transferred to 6B.

This is an exciting time to join our team as their are many developments happening within the department. you will enjoy the management of the renal beds in ward 6B and discuss patient transfers with the team.

You must be prepared to develop your skills and knowledge in delivering dialysis treatment.

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.

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 25 bedded unit/ward , 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.

You would manage your own staff and ensure the competencies are kept up to date as well as supporting the junior staff in developing theit skills and knowledge.

You would be expected to manage the peritoneal dialysis information service over the weekends and out of hours.

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…