Nurse Team Leader - Haemodialysis

Main area: Nursing

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6

Contract: Fixed term: 11 months (End date: 31/05/2026)

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 361-7257160

Site: Bedford Dialysis Unit

Town: Bedford

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum - pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 09/07/2025 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, our mission is to provide 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 - Haemodialysis who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The renal service at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is recognised as a specialist referral centre for renal medicine serving most of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and parts of Essex.

Dialysis facilities in places such as:

• St Albans City Hospital
• Chiltern Kidney Centre, Dunstable
• Bedford Dialysis Unit

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: The post holder will promote high standards of professional practice and high quality care delivery within Trust and department policies, protocols and guidelines. You 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. Within your role, you will utilise effective communication methods with nursing and medical colleagues, patients and visitors in ways that are consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background. You will also need to ensure that legislation, policies and procedures are applied correctly within the renal department.

Working for our organisation: 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

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 applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification:

• First level nurse on Part 1 of the NMC register, educated to diploma level.
• Relevant clinical post-registration education to include a recognised renal course and mentorship qualification.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning.
• Evidence of leadership training / development.

• Significant experience caring for patients requiring renal nursing.
• Involvement in audit / research and willingness to present findings at meetings and conferences.
• Advanced skills in quality assurance of patient dialysis treatment.

• 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 liaise and work with the multidisciplinary team, making recommendations to enhance the smooth running and management of the unit.
• Representing Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in their absence.
• Understanding of scheduling and capacity.

• Has an understanding of managing a busy dialysis unit.
• 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.
• Computer literate - relevant to renal department.
• Understanding of expenditure and budget management.

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

• 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.

Committed to our Community: East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular, we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce.

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019. We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net.

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

When you apply: Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date in certain circumstances. Please ensure that you make your application as soon as possible. All correspondence relating to vacancies will be via the e-mail address you have provided on your application form. Some servers automatically send e-mails to your junk mail so please check as well as your inbox.

As a publicly funded employer, we need to ensure we utilise our funds responsibly, this may mean we are unable to support sponsorship required to gain the right to work for particular positions. We strongly advise you to contact the line manager or a member of the Resourcing Team before applying to confirm if we will be able to support with sponsorship for that post.

King's Trust Support: If you’re aged between 16 and 30 years-old, you can get FREE employability support from The King’s Trust. The King’s Trust will help build your CV and cover letter, offer advice and top tips for future interviews and support you with research about working in the NHS. Please contact Enquiries.H&SC@princes-trust.org.uk for support.

Secondments/Fixed term: Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.

Employer certification / accreditation badges: You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.