Nurse Team Leader St Albans

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. You will work as an integral part of the renal multidisciplinary team. You will demonstrate expertise and leadership in the delivery of care to patients requiring Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) in the form of hemodialysis. As a nursing leader, you will provide daily clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and support staff in the delivery of evidence-based practice. You will actively support the unit manager in the effective running of the department including in their absence. You will be expected to participate in on-call duties.

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:

• Utilize effective communication methods with nursing and medical colleagues, patients and visitors in ways that are consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background.
• Refer patients to other appropriate multi-disciplinary team members when needs and/or risks are beyond own scope of practice.
• Reinforce developments, improvements, successes, and achievements at every opportunity supported by relevant and accurate information.
• Constructively tackle queries and objections to developing knowledge, ideas and work practice and making alternative proposals.
• Evaluate own effectiveness in influencing the policy agenda and use this to inform future practice.
• Prioritise workload for themselves and others, assess performance and provide clear constructive feedback to team members.
• Monitor progress of work recognizing changing priorities and implement corrective actions within own limits and informing the relevant people.
• Plan, manage and organize the unit environment adjusting plans/rosters to cover emergencies in the absence of the unit manager.
• Attend and contribute to meetings as appropriate and deputizing for the unit manager at meetings in their absence.

About us:

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.

Details:

• Date posted: 11 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 361-8161744
• Job locations: St Albans City Hospital, Waverley Road, St Albans, AL3 5PN, United Kingdom

Person Specification:

Qualifications / Training:

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

Previous Experience:

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

Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively - excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• 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.

Knowledge:

• Awareness of current developments in pre and post registration nursing.
• Knowledge of local and national health care initiatives/innovation to improve patient care, experience and safety.

Other Requirements:

• Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda.
• Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities.
• Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning.

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.

UK Registration:

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

For further information please see NHS Careers website.